[xapata]

To some degree, it's about familiarity with your tools. And different tools are optimized for different tasks.

Besides, aren't you deploying Docker containers, anyway?

[alex_sf]

I do, absolutely. But it seems like an exceptionally rare practice for most Python code, at least in the ML space, which puts me back at the start.

[xapata]

Many ML practitioners aren't software engineers. I don't expect that cohort (non-engineers) would manage a deployment well in any language.