Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

I found that the "middle" was missing a few years ago. You either had plain Docker with manual wiring up of things or k8s with its many-headed assumptions that is just too much for my "I have 8 containers I want to use for isolation purposes". docker-compose was an unfortunate in-between that didn't do any DNS or such between containers leaving me to guess how they were intended to communicate with each other (maybe it allowed for `podman pod`-style networks, but it wasn't what I wanted at the time). I then tried systemd-networkd, but it also didn't do automatic DNS stuff, so intercommunication wasn't happening. Eventually I landed on `podman pod` which seems to do the trick where all the containers share a network and just communicate over "localhost" ports and also having decent systemd integration (logs and unit files). `machinectl` integration would be nice too, but having a working deployment is more useful at this point (now that I have a baseline).

Basically, the "one pet that hosts a ranch of cattle" versus some IaaS-based monstrosity that is just not worth my time for what I need.