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by the8472 1186 days ago
> and you will need to repair it and you won't be able do it easily because your setup is not containerized which would allow to return to the clean state quite easily with no effort.

Automated deployment including server bringup is orthogonal to using containers or hot failover. For example at $WORK we're deploying Unreal applications to bare metal windows machines without using containers because windows containers aren't as frictionless as linux ones and the required GPU access complicates things further.