If you believe in de containerised concepts and that containers should be immutable, certain parts of the configuration should be fixed as well. In the context op OpenHab, this means that you can’t add switches, sensors and actuators on a running instance of OpenHab, when you have already deployed your container or unikernel. When the configuration changes, a new container should be built and deployed. Applying immutable containers means that you’re deploying new images a bit more often than you would do when using mutable containers. And to make sure that this isn’t too painful, I have put Jenkins to this…
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