This Calm.io blog recap was originally written and posted by me on May 26, 2016 at http://calm.io/2016/05/26/reconciling-configuration-management-and-immutable-infrastructure/, and slightly enhanced on February 18, 2018.

In these early years of containers, “heavy containers” represent a typical approach which resembles virtual machines, includes the operating system user land, and desires configuration management. Does this starting point represent the opposite of container promise and the journey to immutable infrastructure?