> IP ratelimited for Docker Hub

How? What I'm describing is using Docker less.

> The build process can exhaust resources on the host

Maybe, but I've yet to have a host where that's the case for usual CRUD fare.

> The advantage is simplicity, and it's often worth the risk.

That's basically what I'm evaluating for here.

For bog standard LAMP or similar stack applications, I've not understood the advantage of going through the build-image-then-pull-on-host rigmarole. There's more layers involved there than something like provisioning with Ansible and just having a deploy script to run the usual suspects.

But I have seen that done fairly often, hence was wondering what the point was.