> Now, I understand that in many cases some of the complexity is now being outsourced to others who maintain the containers
We have a winner.
Containers in the end looks to management and developers as a means of outsourcing those pesky sysadmins that always get in the way of dreaming big.
Its not without reason why devops and containerization seems to go hand in hand, as both are pretty much about neutering or sidelining the sysadmin role.
The sysadmin role isn't being neutered or sidelined, it is being moved from something every company has to do to something that primarily will be performed by large providers at massive scale. System infrastructure and the management of it is becoming commoditized, and containers are one part of that story, just as the increasing level of abstraction of cloud platforms is another.
We have a winner.
Containers in the end looks to management and developers as a means of outsourcing those pesky sysadmins that always get in the way of dreaming big.
Its not without reason why devops and containerization seems to go hand in hand, as both are pretty much about neutering or sidelining the sysadmin role.