[amar0c]

I have feeling whole Docker (or application containers) took of when "non Linux people" (read: developers) tried to be sys admins too and failed.

Best thing after sliced bread is apps/software packed in single GO binary. Runs everywhere, you only need to rsync/scp it to million of other places and it "acts" (usually) as normal Linux program/daemon

[api]

That’s true but IMHO that’s an indictment if Linux not them. It’s 2023 and there is no reason system administration should be this hard unless you are doing very unusual things.

The Go approach is just static linking. Rust often does the same though it’s not always the default like in Go, and you can do the same with C and C++ for all but libc with a bit of makefile hacking.

Statically linking the world is the alternative approach to containers.

[djbusby]

One problem with SysAdmin stuff is that, like crypto, we keep telling folk it's too hard and just out-source. While I think don't roll your own crypto makes sense - we've done a dis-service to the trade to discourage self-hosting and other methods to practice the craft. Don't run your own infra, use AWS. Don't host your own email it's too hard, just use a provider. Etc. Then a decade later...hey, how come nobody is good at SysAdmin?