it solves the cloud provider problems. if everyone make their platform out of those small and generic blocks, it will be very easy for them to provide standar

it solves the cloud provider problems. if everyone make their platform out of those small and generic blocks, it will be very easy for them to provide standar services around the blocks. while if you had an efficient and sane application with two of the basic concepts those blocks provides coded in, the cloud providers would have to provide custom bindings for all the things they wrap around the small blocks. making their lives much more difficult. thats why you mostly see larger companies advertising the sexiness of containers. because they are either the cloud provider, or they already are binded to a cloud provider, or they work internally by departments that in the end act much like cloud providers anyway.