Layering more abstractions on top of what was already complicated doesn’t fix the complications below, it just hides them. You then have to hope that there’s no

Layering more abstractions on top of what was already complicated doesn’t fix the complications below, it just hides them. You then have to hope that there’s not a bug somewhere in between those layers. Additionally, each new layer has a cost in performance. More layers means more compute, and eventually mean more money. If you’re Netflix, it’s worth it, if you’re not… what admins dealt with before wasn’t so bad. Now that that job has largely been killed and renamed 20 times, it’s far worse. Admins don’t just have to deal with a server, they have to deal with a server and 60 containers which are just little baby servers.