It was the right UX at the right time. Personally, I preferred my home brew “Kube” that would ssh updates to cgroups from a central control server. Which is b

It was the right UX at the right time. Personally, I preferred my home brew “Kube” that would ssh updates to cgroups from a central control server. Which is basically the Chef model, and Salt model of clients pulling desired state. Docker & Kube aren’t novel and weren’t as specific things. Tons of home brew options operating in roughly the same style existed around the net. Their adoption in industry, use at scale, simply gives them a grander appearance of somehow being truly novel