Ask HN: Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?
<i>Disclaimer:  I&#x27;m a container infrastructure consultant at Red Hat, so take all of this with a big grain of salt :-)</i><p>What you are complaining about isn&#x27;t really containers (you could still pretty easily run stuff in a container and set it up&#x2F;treat it like a &quot;pet&quot; rather than &quot;cattle&quot;), it&#x27;s the CI&#x2F;CD and immutable infrastructure best practices you are really sad about.  Your complaints are totally valid:  but there is another side to it.<p>Before adopting containers it wasn&#x27;t unusual to SSH in and change a line of code on a broken server and restart.  In fact that works fine while the company&#x2F;team is really small.  Unfortunately it becomes a <i>disaster</i> and huge liability when the team grows.<p>Additionally in regulated environments (think a bank or healthcare) one person with the ability to do that would be a huge threat.  Protecting production data is paramount and if you can modify the code processing that data without a person&#x2F;thing in your way then you are a massive threat to the data.  I know you would never do something nefarious - neither would I.  We just want to build things.  But I promise you it&#x27;s a matter of time until you hire somebody that <i>does</i>.  And as a customer, I&#x27;d rather not trust my identity to be protected because &quot;we trust Billy.  He would never do that.&quot;<p>I pine for the old days - I really do.  Things are insanely complex now and I don&#x27;t like it.  Unfortunately there are good reasons for the complexity.