> there's an interesting tension here with applications that target self-hosting

Being already set up in Docker simplifies this quite a bit for smaller installs. But I notice a send tension - the introduction of some new tool on every project.

I'm reasonably proficient with Docker, been using it for over a decade. But until now I've never encountered "rush". And it did not surprise me to find some new tool - actually I probably would have been surprised to not find some new tool. Every project seems to foregoe established, known tools for something novel now. I mean I'm glad it's not "make", but the overhead for learning completely new tools to understand what I'm introducing into the company is attrition.