[BenfromOz]

I'm working on one of those Docker powered Heroku "competitors". This post and your post both rung true for me.

It's a constant balancing act. Too flexible, it becomes overwhelming. Too constrained and you sacrifice a bunch of the perks of using Docker.

The conclusion I've come to is the only way to do it is to be unashamedly opinionated about keeping things simple for the average user. Otherwise you end up having that exact conversation

[brightball]

Yea. The most realistic way to get things working IMO is Dockerfiles with 80% use case defaults for parts of the stack. From there if people want/need to dive in and tweak them they'd have the ability to do so but ideally the average user doesn't need to know they are touching Docker much beyond knowing that it's there if they need it.