Remember the The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing |
Viewpoint: System AdministratorThis a simplified state diagram of what we want. A Failed state should probably be added and ideally it should also be possible to recover and go back to Running or at least the Booted state.
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Viewpoint: A common implementationThis diagram shows how this often is implemented. Note that there is a Failed state here, but the system cannot go anywhere from this state, thus requiring manual intervention.
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