[Fritsdehacker]

I work for a hosting company and we host our own Openstack based public cloud. We have a hard demand that for production systems we build all binaries we use from source. We actually build these in docker and use that to deploy to production.

What I'm trying to say is that the one doesn't exclude the other.

And we actually use make quite extensively.

I do however see the ops point, building from source hasn't gotten easier.

[Fritsdehacker]

In the case of Openstack though, the community made it really easy to build docker containers from source.