> feel dramatically more complicated, even though they're nominally more "abstract" than they would be on bare metal
One problem I have with most of these systems is that they use completely foreign concepts. A programmer needs basic old-school sysadmin skills anyway just to develop a program. But most of those skills, however, aren't useful when using Docker on a server. You need to speak a very different language.
It reminds me of developing for small embedded systems. You get an IDE on your regular computer to write the program, but then after you've compiled it, you have to load it onto the embedded system and run and debug it there. Suddenly, the tools are all different, and most of them are crap.
One problem I have with most of these systems is that they use completely foreign concepts. A programmer needs basic old-school sysadmin skills anyway just to develop a program. But most of those skills, however, aren't useful when using Docker on a server. You need to speak a very different language.
It reminds me of developing for small embedded systems. You get an IDE on your regular computer to write the program, but then after you've compiled it, you have to load it onto the embedded system and run and debug it there. Suddenly, the tools are all different, and most of them are crap.