0. "Builds are slow" -> use multi-stage builds to ensure layer caching works great. 1. "Hot fix now" -> I do just log in and enter the container, change a coup

0. "Builds are slow" -> use multi-stage builds to ensure layer caching works great. 1. "Hot fix now" -> I do just log in and enter the container, change a couple of lines and restart, not sure what's your problem here 2. "containers do not close when ssh breaks" -> I guess that's also going to save you if you run <whatever mysql management command> without screen/tmux ! 3. "Harder to change how things work" -> actually, it makes it much easier to add services to a stack: just add them to the compose file and use container names for hostnames in configurations ! 4. "Must remember launched containers" -> why not use NetData for monitoring ? it really does all the monitoring/alerting you need out of the box ! And will show containers, tell you before /var/lib/docker runs out of space (use BtrFS to save a lot of time and space) I'll add that containers make it easy to go from DevOps to eXtreme DevOps which will let you maintain a clean master branch, and that is priceless ! Details -> https://blog.yourlabs.org/posts/2020-02-08-bigsudo-extreme-devops-hacking-operations/ https://blog.yourlabs.org/posts/2020-02-08-bigsudo-extreme-d... Where I'm migrating to : replacing Ansible/Docker/Compose with a new micro-framework that lets you do all of these with a single script per repo, instead of a bunch of files, but that's just because I can :)