Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes & containers. I tried to address it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9570639 https://news.ycombinator.com

Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes & containers. I tried to address it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9570639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9570639 But in summary, the basic thing that containerized software offers is inherent portability and simple composition. VMs aren't going anywhere; running a container on top of them just makes everything more powerful.