Admittedly I didn't follow it super closely, but I did do fig when that was a thing, then tried initial docker compose, and then later did docker compose again.

Admittedly I didn't follow it super closely, but I did do fig when that was a thing, then tried initial docker compose, and then later did docker compose again. All along it has always just felt way too imperative. It was too much of a sense that you were issuing commands at a system rather than declaring a desired end state. Kubernetes got this right from the get-go.