> This feels perhaps a bit too dismissive? Im just posting my observations having managed on prem and data centres over the last couple of decades. > Containe

> This feels perhaps a bit too dismissive? Im just posting my observations having managed on prem and data centres over the last couple of decades. > Containers are pretty great, however I wouldn't say that they're always exclusive to virtualization I literally said it’s not a like for like replacement. Plenty of SaaS offerings run virtualisation for security with containers on top. But in those instances the VMs aren’t used for distributed computing; they’re used as a security layer. It’s the containers that perform the distributed aspects.