I'm the lead dev for our company and I chose as phase 1 for our implementation Nomad for orchestration, a bunch of "micro-apps" (single purpose executables), and Consul for configuration and service discovery. I chose that combination for ease of use and flexibility - Nomad works with everything raw executables and containers.

Of course later on the consultants came along later and scoffed at the simplicity of our process - our deployment process is basically one step in our continuous delivery pipeline - copy the bin/release directory to the destination folder.

I tried to get them to articulate a business case for us to use containers. They couldn't come up with one.

Then my manager, someone I really respect for his technical acumen finally gave me one. If we go to containers, we don't have to provision servers on AWS. We can use AWS Fargate. Lambda isn't an option we have long running processes that make more sense as apps.

I wanted to do Docker anyway eventually just to add a bullet point on my resume and I could have as the dev lead but it felt unethical to make a choice that wasn't best for the business. Now I think it's the right way to go.