[twelfthnight]

Because of containers, my company now can roll out deployments using well defined CI/CD scripts, where we can control installations to force usage of pass-through caches (GCP artifact registry). So it actually has that data you're talking about, but instead of living in one person's head it's stored in a database and accessable to everyone via an API.

[bandrami]

Tried that. The devs revolted and said the whole point of containers was to escape the tyranny of ops. Management sided with them, so it's the wild west there.

[twelfthnight]

Huh. I actually can understand devs not wanting to need permission to install libraries/versions, but with a pull-through cache there's no restrictions save for security vulnerabilities.

I think it actually winds up speeding up ci/cd docker builds, too.