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Very interesting. I'm not convinced this captures the core value of containers though. Or at least not the only core value. Calling containers an evolution of c

Very interesting. I'm not convinced this captures the core value of containers though. Or at least not the only core value. Calling containers an evolution of configuration management tools seems like an oversimplification just to make a point. This may be one aspect of building a micro-service driven architecture that containers make easier, but there are other very important ones. Portability comes to mind. It's not just that you can build your stack once and save it, but that you can then run that stack anywhere, and it becomes much easier to share/borrow bits and pieces of other people's stacks.

falcolas 11y ago
> you can then run that stack anywhere Anywhere that runs Linux, at least. > it becomes much easier to share/borrow bits and pieces of other people's stacks. At the cost of not knowing what's really in them.
- andybak 11y ago
  To a certain degree I don't want to know what's in them. If I want to add search to my stack - initially I'd rather not have to have an intimate knowledge of Elastic Search, a task queue and whatever other moving parts there are. In many cases a black box that just works would be a fantastic option. The reason hosted services are popular is for exactly this reason. A wide understanding of different technologies is a wonderful thing but sometimes you just need to ship.