I work at a place where half of the people speak dutch, the other half come from all over the world.
It helps when everyone speaks the same language, English in this case, and can jump in and out of conversation whenever.
It's illegal for them to actually ban the use of Dutch, as this is in Belgium. But it's also just a dick move to exclude people from conversation, just because it's convenient to some.
Divine intervention
At one of my clients, who wants everything on-prem, I use gitlab CI with ansible. It took 3 days to setup, and requires thinkering. But all in all, I like the versitility, consistency and transparency of this approach.
If I'd start over again, I'd use pyinfra instead of ansible, but that's a minor difference.
There's some info on this from Belgium. The Antwerp harbour is known to be one of the major drug ports of EU. A couple of gangs operating through it used a breached "secure" messaging service called Sky-ECC.
The messages show that there were severe punishments whenever a shipment got caught in the harbor. Like kidnapping and torture of those "responsible". With the henchmen providing video proof to the gang leaders, often hiding in Dubai and other countries with lesser diplomatic ties.
Light at the flick of a switch.
It's was a glacially cold moonlit night. Our hero turned on the LED ceiling lights.
There's a lot of "awesome-X" lists, like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted and https://github.com/Axorax/awesome-free-apps
I did not have sexual relations with that support vector machine
My government news agency basically copies msnbc narrative for major stories, or smaller stories if there's a link to EU.
It means they dislike the people that brand themselves as woke.
It's like asking anti-AI people their opinion on support vector machines - you'll rarely get an informed answer.
I'm so glad I'm here I can't wait to leave
Spite
I think it depends on the rate of change, rather than the amount of containers.
At home I do things manually as things change maybe 3 or 4 times a year.
Professionally I usually do setup automated devops because updates and deployments happen almost daily.