Re: I never quite got containers...
Containers are pretty useful, but the idea that they should all be stateless has always been STUPID. Any non-trivial application has state that has to be stored somewhere. Making it "somebody else's problem" only creates a new problem of how to coordinate between the containers and whatever kind of persistent storage you're using. If one provisioning system with one view is responsible for both, subject to the constraint that the actual disks etc. physically exist in one place, then it actually does simplify quite a bit of code.
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