[Zenst]

I think many view "ready for production" as a sign of what they do have in place is stable enough and support options are available so that it ticks all the CTO/CEO boxes in business plans.

Which basicly gets down to when your CTO/CEO or some manager comes in preaching docker - we should be doing that, why arn't we has one less argument to dismiss it now than before.

Yes many aspects need improving but case of what is there is deemed to of gained enough run-time in environments to be deemed stable enough to say, we can support this in production for off the shelf usage without you needing lots of grey-bearded wizards to glue it all in place and keep it that way.