The things I listed are additional things, they don't replace what you need to do anyway. You could be deploying your Go binary or Clojure JAR on that vm/vps, o

The things I listed are additional things, they don't replace what you need to do anyway. You could be deploying your Go binary or Clojure JAR on that vm/vps, or you build additional complexity on setting up & terraform authoring your registry and it's setup, making it accessible from GH actions, scanning container base images for vulnerabilities, jumping hoops to debug it because it's in a container, etc. Using containers without a registry feels like a iffy middle ground. You lose the standard workflows and can't use it on container native platforms.. But maybe it makes sense sometimes. It has upsides too, sure.