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I agree with this. I work on a very large platform and the cost of complexity like this is immense. It’s a not insignificant measurable loss versus not using docker and kubernetes. We’d have been better off using flat EC2 instances for everything and not incurring the packaging complexity, the repository management complexity, the pipeline complexity and the extreme staffing cost to keep multiple large kubernetes clusters running and understood.

Even container security and compliance around it is a measurable loss on its own which is trivially solved if you have bare EC2 instances and a patch cycle.