There's alternatives to Dockerfiles for container building and maintenance, such as Packer [1] and Ansible Container [2]. [1]: https://www.packer.io/docs/build

There's alternatives to Dockerfiles for container building and maintenance, such as Packer [1] and Ansible Container [2]. [1]: https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/docker.html https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/docker.html [2]: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-container/ https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-container/ FWIW I made a presentation years ago about this topic (it's in the second half): https://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/gigablah/talks/20150915/from_source_code_to_containers.slide#1 https://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/gigablah/talks/20150...