I agree that the industry will waste billions on startups. There's not really a market there for 'Docker' containers, and there never was. docker-containers a

I agree that the industry will waste billions on startups. There's not really a market there for 'Docker' containers, and there never was. docker-containers and it's related counterparts are abstractions. Useful abstractions don't necessarily equate to a new line of business. The best attributes of containers (IMO) are packaging and distribution. What business and operators need is a repeatable, easy way to deploy applications across there infrastructure. Containers are one piece of that story. The bigger piece, and IMO, where the business viability is, is the orchestration layer. Containers aren't very useful by themselves, you need a way to get your application online. That's where Kubernetes comes in. You need to understand large organizations and their challenges to see what layer of the containerization stack holds the most value. Long-term, I see 'linux containers' as we know them going away. The industry is going to move to something like [1]: lightweight, hardware-assisted VM/container hybrids. But, no matter what happens at the containerization layer, the orchestration layer is the piece that adds business value to end-users (eg, not AWS or other hosting providers). 1: https://katacontainers.io/ https://katacontainers.io/