A person by the name of Venkat Subramaniam actually did a pretty nice presentation about accidental and domain (essential) complexity a few years ago: [video] h

A person by the name of Venkat Subramaniam actually did a pretty nice presentation about accidental and domain (essential) complexity a few years ago: [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MEKu2TcEHM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MEKu2TcEHM It's a bit humorous and long winded, but personally I rather enjoyed it and it struck a chord with me, especially the bits about how even things like configuration can be a source of frustration. In regards to Kubernetes, of course, there's also lots of nuance and cases where it is good, as well as those where something simpler (like Nomad/Swarm/Compose) might be a better fit. Either way, personally I think that containers are pretty good overall, unless you want to ship Vagrant images or full VM images.