It's the container shaped VC bonfire at work. Hype new things to drive adoption K8S and Docker swarm/compose seem to be trying to replace VMs completely as a

It's the container shaped VC bonfire at work. Hype new things to drive adoption K8S and Docker swarm/compose seem to be trying to replace VMs completely as a general purpose compute abstraction. Google certainly uses them that way, though they have a unique situation arguably. Mesos is doing it too but in a somewhat different way. Given that, I'd say one of the main features k8s or container platform vendors promote is stateful workloads even though they're not baked at all. most stateless cloud platforms like Heroku or cloud foundry have tended to shy away from that for good reason. But I can't count how many unrealistic and unreliable "run this distributed database... on a single docker host! Slowly!" examples there are out there. "12 factor apps" is now used as a disparaging term for "you can't even persist, bro" rather than something to aspire to, which to me seems seriously misguided. Disclaimer, I work for a software company that competes in this crazy cloud world