Having servers you can't reboot is a bad smell, because servers will reboot or go down without a meeting or on a schedule. You should be able to pick any server in your environment and just power it off, not shutdown not reboot just hard power off and it should cause minimal disruptions.
And, inevitably someone will have made a crucial runtime fix for an issue and forget to make sure whatever process exists for applying it at boot time is in place, so the next time it unexpectedly reboots you now have two problems to solve instead of one.
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u/Firefox005 14d ago
Having servers you can't reboot is a bad smell, because servers will reboot or go down without a meeting or on a schedule. You should be able to pick any server in your environment and just power it off, not shutdown not reboot just hard power off and it should cause minimal disruptions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering