I think the article is right on and makes a good point. The title does imply that containers are somehow bad for system administration. But the point is not tha

I think the article is right on and makes a good point. The title does imply that containers are somehow bad for system administration. But the point is not that a container with a nicely installed, maintained, sensible image and applications pre-loaded on it would be a problem for system administration. Nor would it be anything but trivial to update patches in this situation. The real point the author is making is that many times containers are misused to paper over problems like lack of reproducibility, dependency hell, etc. They aren't reproducible, certainly not by you. If they were you'd not need the container in the first place, or you could build your own easily. So for this kind of misuse, the analogy to Tucows Windows 95 shareware is pretty close. Hadoop and Docker are just the examples to make the point. And they are good enough ones, because I could understand exactly what the author meant. There are certainly hundreds of other examples.