[sandfox]

Why shouldn't a 'devops' company complain about dependency? It's their domain completely. Treating anything as a "fact of life" is not going to make the problem go away... And what about anyone out there trying to use them who isn't a 'devops' thingy. A painful dependency graph is going to be something that influences their decision on what tool they choose.

[hunvreus]

Pretty much what I thought. The leaner the better.

Moreover, in our specific case, we did not want to introduce dependencies on hosts that are managed by our customers so as to not run into conflicts with their own stack.