I don't understand why you think it's hard to tell your CI/CD pipeline to run itself on a schedule. I find this totally consistent with my tooling (I have CI/CD in place for many different reasons, this is one of them) and I don't know how this CI/CD cron makes me "packaging maintainer and infrastructure maintainer".
"With containers, you are responsible for figuring out which ones need which packages and how to re-build them."
Yeah, you need to know how to rebuild your world in ANY CASE. It's not an argument against containers that they require an approach that is the best practice.
"With containers, you are responsible for figuring out which ones need which packages and how to re-build them."
Yeah, you need to know how to rebuild your world in ANY CASE. It's not an argument against containers that they require an approach that is the best practice.