[throwaway2016a]

In today's Docker the biggest benefit I can see is Networking that container with other. Docker networking is quite powerful and having the container auto-join the network and have it routable from any other machine without having to even know what machine(s) it is actually running on is a nice thing.

Being able to use consistent tooling with the rest of the containers is another plus.

> But when we were faced with the option of using another smaller OS, like alpine, we decided not do it because we would give up a lot of flexibility that the OS was providing us.

Alpine is getting easier to work with. It's been a while since I haven't been able to find a pre-built package for something I needed for instance.

[bpicolo]

The straightforward resource isolation is a big deal. CPU/Memory quotas are necessary for distributing containers among a machine pool.