There There! I think the same way. I feel like LXC is super powerful and flexible at the same time. Docker and all its terminology around(docker file, compose, swarm and many more) just feels like unnecessary complexity.. A few unixy scripts to automate LXC commands and The infrastructure should be set. The less wheels to grease the better at this level.

I think the point of Docker (and maybe Kubernetes) is that its containers are intended to be stateless one-offs, so they aren't (and can't be) managed like a traditional server. Instead of patching a server, you'd build a new image incorporating said patches and launch that in place of the old one. It's not a bad tool for scalable services that can be stateless (i.e., not databases or file servers), even if I personally haven't quite gotten the hang of that workflow yet.