Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

The problem here is not (necessarily) that the tools don't exist, it is that none of them are as ubiquitous and widely-supported as Unix. I want containerization to be a Solved Problem™, in the same way that multi-user operating systems are a Solved Problem™, and right now it feels like we're still in the "everybody is throwing things at the wall to see what sticks" phase.

(Sure, at the low level, Linux-based systems have mostly standardized on "everything is a frontend to cgroups," but orchestration is an entirely different story. There's no single standard way of describing a bunch of generic containers, or machines, their associated resource requirements and constraints, etc., much less a standard piece of software that will take those constraints and schedule your containers for you. As I mentioned, you *can* do this stuff with k8s, but nobody regards k8s as The One True Container Solution in the same way that Unix is The One True Operating System.)