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As per my comment down thread, I believe these technologies are complimentary (CM tools are not going anywhere) - but I totally get your point.

The linked project uses CM tools to get ELK running in a vagrant image. That alone is not terribly interesting - because I probably want to run it on my production cluster - not some standalone image.

I can edit the configuration - but this introduces dependencies on my particular environment (is it AWS, GCE, VMWare, bare metal, etc.)?

What I find compelling about Kubernetes (which to my mind is much more interesting than Docker alone) - is that it attempts to abstract at a much higher level. In theory (yet to be proved in battle...) I can deploy a k8 configuration on any number of environments, and the "description" ( a bunch of k8 yaml files), is the same.

Is Docker being hyped beyond belief? Yes, but I do think there is something significant about containerization.