Automating VMs with Elastic Beanstalk and deploying to a platform like Heroku are effectively solved problems. Container orchestration brings in new challenges

Automating VMs with Elastic Beanstalk and deploying to a platform like Heroku are effectively solved problems. Container orchestration brings in new challenges like operating a consensus database, managing data volumes and load balancing. And this is on top of VM management. Yes, ECS, Kube, Nomad are very similar. All relatively hard to use right now compared to their simpler ancestors. Here is more in depth info about the challenges of ECS: https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/ https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/