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Enterprises are experiencing a renewed urgency to develop a business acumen with technologies like containers, which will soon be ubiquitous. However, the current development stage of containers infrastructure is adolescent, and its operational complexity is not yet widely understood. Containers introduce a magnitude of complexity due to fundamental differences from traditional infrastructure, including the inability to scale, continual downtimes, and increased attack surface area. An infrastructure that does not meet operational requirements for containers will experience serious issues, such as infrastructure interruptions, ineffective monitoring, and poor quality of service. To solve these complexities, enterprises must focus on their infrastructure architecture and modernize their application architecture, considering factors like orchestration, SDLC via CI/CD, and mission-critical services like security, performance, and availability management. The choices for architecting a container-specific operational platform are to build or buy, with the end goal of creating a self-driving, self-healing, and self-monitoring platform that can handle various tasks and maintain flexibility to future-proof as technology changes.