[Handytinge]

> The use case there for containers is both obvious and compelling, and his comment shows that he has zero understanding of the space.

I think this is more reflective of you, than him.

The technologies he's discussing drive (often in a poor, bloated way) most containers, and are the underlying components. Learning to self host with containers is fine until you want to customise beyond the ENV variables, or fix a bug and not have to wait on the maintainer, etc, etc.

Containerisation _is_ a recent tech, and it sticking around in the future _is_ debatable. I'm old enough to recall Red Hat (not EL)/Fedora kickstart being the thing that will never be replaced.

The thing that likely won't go away is the underlying infrastructure (nginx, apache, etc) that are worth knowing if you self host.