> The advantage of Docker images over AMI is that you have a file that describes how the image was built.

https://packer.io - how is this even a discussion?

> the more I'm persuaded that what people calls "old boring technologies" truly is "technologies I'm comfortable with".

My infrastructure runs in Nomad on bare metal. I am by no means opposed to “progress”, I just don’t think Kubernetes is the be-all-and-end-all of infrastructure and would like to have a less hysterical debate about it than the parent to my original post presented.