The document discusses how treating containers as "cattle" rather than "pets" can help address issues like heterogeneity, operational overhead, and change fragility in container management. It advocates implementing the classical automation cycle of provisioning, deploying, monitoring, and remediating containers while observing their current state and converging it to the desired state as described in policies. This treats containers as generic and ephemeral resources rather than individually managed assets, hiding the full infrastructure stack behind the cluster manager.