‘Cattle’ always seems to imply spreading your infrastructure across multiple cloud services, and having infrastructure management tools etc. I sometimes wonder

‘Cattle’ always seems to imply spreading your infrastructure across multiple cloud services, and having infrastructure management tools etc. I sometimes wonder whether we need another metaphor, something like a dairy cow, where you only have one, but when it fails you can shoot it and plug in another very quickly and simply (e.g. using a script).