[bcantrill]

Disclaimer: I'm the CTO at Joyent.

For whatever it's worth, we completely agree with the sentiment (and I like your "blue collar apps" term) -- and we deliberately have designed Triton[1] for ease of use by virtualizing the notion of a Docker host. I think that the direction you are pointing to (namely, ease of management for very small deployments) is one that the industry needs to pay close attention to; the history of technology is littered with the corpses of overcomplicated systems that failed because they could not scale down to simpler use cases!

[1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/triton-docker-and-the-best-of-al...