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by cratermoon 1835 days ago
The original pet v cattle metaphor was indeed inspired by servers, not containers. http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...

What makes a given component – server, vm, container, whatever – is not the runtime, but how you deal with it when it gets seriously ill. Pets are taken to the vet or hospital to get treatment. Cattle are.. well, read the article I linked.