[jb_gericke]

Enjoyed the article but having watched containerization and kubernetes maturing over the last 5 years (especially at an enterprise level), I'd say a huge part of the value proposition is (and this applies more to K8) it really catalyses prototyping/experimenting and (depending on the org I suppose) promotes a lot of autonomy for app teams who'd historically have to log calls to infrastructure to get compute, network/lb/dns, databases et al. built up before kicking the tyres on something. I've seen those types of things take months in large orgs. And then there's the inevitable drift between tiered environments that happens over time in richer operating environments (I've seen VMs so laden with superfluous monitoring and agentware they fall over all the time, while simultaneously being on completely different OS and patch versions from dev to prod). Containers provide immutability at the service layer, so I have confidence in at least having that level of parity between dev and prod (albeit hardly ever at a data or network layer).