[nuerow]

> You're going a bit far the other way, I think. People definitely use containers because they're a nice workflow, and yes a lot of containers are shipping all in-house code.

Containers might have provided a convenient way to package, distribute, and deploy software, but that's just a nice-to-have complementing the whole reason anyone adopts containers.

To put things in perspective, while Docker is practically a household name, does snap ring a bell to anyone? Does anyone bother at all with snap?

> But to ignore the popularity of Docker Hub and claim that people aren't also jumping head first into containers because they make it easy to grab random unvetted binaries is a step to far.

This assertion is proven false with the inception of container registry services provided by service providers such as GitLab, GitHub, and all major cloud service providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, and even lesser services such as Alibaba cloud and IBM cloud. These services might make container images available to the public, but their main role is to allow people like you and me to push their own container images to be pulled by your container orchestration services. In fact, even if you adopt third-party services you end up either using the official images made available by each project or repackaging the software yourself to reflect your own config and deployment needs.