[jayd16]

I don't really understand your complaints at all. You simultaneously talk about how much work it is but the main anecdotal complaint was that it makes changing things too easy. You don't really argue against docker as much as talk about liking packer, which is fine and all but its not very compelling.

I work on a project that recently switched from ami/deployed packages to docker. Took us about 3 weeks to convert our jenkins pipeline and a dozen Java services (and some odds and ends) to docker images.

A huge advantage baked AMIs don't have is you can't run them locally as easily as docker. We can run a full local environment with a docker-compose file.

Honestly, once it clicked, it was almost too easy to blog about. Is this something people want to read?