"Whilst I believe strongly in Capistrano as a general purpose tool [...] I do think the future of software deployment is in small, containerised VMs and so-call

"Whilst I believe strongly in Capistrano as a general purpose tool [...] I do think the future of software deployment is in small, containerised VMs and so-called PaaS, as what we're all doing right now has to end, some time." Kudos. It takes a lot of courage to admit your baby is not going to fulfill the future you had initially imagined.