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Why not use docker containers which will do this by default for stateless portion of your infrastructure?


Docker containers are not reproducible and building the containers takes bloody forever/poor cacheability.

Look at every Dockerfile

FROM Ubuntu/Ubuntu

RUN apt-get update (or apt-get install) # BOOM — no longer possible to reproduce the build


Sure, if you always rebuild your container images - but surely a more typical approach is to build them and put them in a container registry?

Of course, they would be rebuilt when base layers change, but if you really want exactly the same image, you reference it by a digest, which will give you a point-in-time image.




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