[toomuchtodo]

Can you edit your post? You may want to make specific mention that you're talking about the MS toolchain. The open source toolchain for CI and integration with Linux/FreeBSD hosting/cloud providers is sufficiently mature to not run into the pain points you describe (build systems, containerization through lxc and docker, aws and every other cloud provider's api, and so forth).

Disclaimer: Infrastructure engineer who does DevOps as well.

[brendanp]

I'm definitely not trying to limit things to the Microsoft toolchain. I recognize that composability is super important, and anything we build should participate in the greater ecosystem.