what does "your distro" mean here? the distro in the container, or the container host, or the client host?
containers are just a packaging/isolation technique. you can keep using an obsolete stack in a container, regardless of what changes outside it. rebuilding containers from scratch is certainly not easier than rebuilding an install via ansible.
> what does "your distro" mean here? the distro in the container, or the container host, or the client host?
Container host.
> rebuilding containers from scratch is certainly not easier than rebuilding an install via ansible.
How so? The OP is giving an example of ansible scripts breaking because of OS version change, and having to fix them. With containers, the container OS is very slim, so fewer things to break with upgrades, and you can upgrade the host OS easily since docker is quite stable across OS versions.
containers are just a packaging/isolation technique. you can keep using an obsolete stack in a container, regardless of what changes outside it. rebuilding containers from scratch is certainly not easier than rebuilding an install via ansible.