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I used to work with a guy who was a sysadmin for a moderately sized webhost in the mid-2000s when things like containers and cluster orchestrators didn't exist and high availability/multi-master database systems were only really accessible to banks.
He once described patching the servers "like trying to change all the tires on a car without being allowed to pull over".
...as an IT guy who started my career as containers starred to be a thing, some of the stories from the late 90's early 2000's are bonkers. We have it so much easier with things like k8s handling the orchestration.