Recent convo with Cloudflare they said they are mostly container-less, debian packages installed and running on the the host, which is impressive at their scale and complexity. They did seem to think that this approach was hitting its limits and what the future might look like when I spoke to ppl there recently (end 2021), assumption being the future could be containers.
seemed more to be technical and organisational. More and more teams all the time, more and more products, more and more technical requirements / tuning etc, needed a strong abstraction to reason about it all.
