I mean, apart from the hacker mindset of the thing, if you’re talking about the _outcome_: there is real value in being able to distribute something to a customer without having to worry about whether they have the dependencies or not, what version of an OS they have, whether they are running on ephemeral VMs or long running machines they don’t want to pollute etc etc.
At Google Cloud we did this on a team I was on. It was really the only way we could be sure of the environment we were handing off to the customer.
It's funny you mentioned Google's internal infra because my motivation for this was to hack together something to emulate the kind of static fat binaries deployed on Borg.
At Google Cloud we did this on a team I was on. It was really the only way we could be sure of the environment we were handing off to the customer.