This rant is all well and good, but the folks who really need to hear this are the sales and marketing folks at the third-party software vendors who happily bur

This rant is all well and good, but the folks who really need to hear this are the sales and marketing folks at the third-party software vendors who happily burble that “we’re containerizing/containerized!”. Then you peer into their implementation only to find out they popped a VM into that sucker and called it a day. When you get on a call with them, you find out really containerizing their product (of which “distroless” is only one of many, many re-architecting and re-designing their product should go through) is nowhere on their roadmaps, because too few customers are demanding it. We might need a “X Factors” list to popularize what checkboxes properly “containerized” products should tick, to help move the needle.