[xyproto]

Not writing all software in machine code is also a skill issue.

The question is not if it's a skill issue or not, but if the complexity of the solution matches the complexity of the problem domain. And also: if there are easier and clearer ways to reach the same goals.

[9dev]

Dockerfiles provide a small set of operations to create a reproducible software artefact. I have been doing this for a while, I’ve seen POM files, Groovy Pipelines, endless shell scripts, Makefiles, and lots more. From all those, Dockerfiles do not seem like an absurdly complex solution to the problem to me.

[p_ing]

Bingo. Which is why that k8s fad was inappropriate for almost everyone out there. Your app could have run under cron every hour once an hour on an i586 but you had to spin k8s because it was "cool".