Treat your machines like cattle, not pets. When I used to run kubernetes in the pre-'kube as a service' days. We had two autoscaling groups, one which had 3 or 5 nodes in it to run the control plane nodes and an open eneded one for workers (which were managed by the cluster autoscaler). Each ASG was set up in such a way that the nodes would come up and join the cluster fully automated and they never needed to be shelled into for anything but troubleshooting the weirdest failures (it was early days, the kubelet and docker had some extra fun bugs).
Ok sure, I'm very familiar w the cattle vs pets analogy / meme -- but the (capitalized!) "Machine Cattle" made it seem like a reference to a particular software tool or product.
