Am I the only person that has considered this?  I have had coworkers tell me they feel full profile is dead.  I don't believe so, but there is a huge surge towards containers in cloud based technologies.  I am just now working with Liberty and running Liberty images on Docker.  Liberty is very dev friendly (which is a very good thing) but how should I shift my skills coming from a position of strictly being an admin to be just as valuable as ever?  I don't want to be left behind but I feel like from what I am seeing the traditional WAS admin role is changing.  Thoughts?

I understand your concerns, but before I would make any assumptions, I'm still not 100% sold on container technologies like Docker.  A container like Docker is supposed to abstract the OS layer from the application, but, isn't a JVM doing exactly just that?  Think about it...you can run a full ND profile on both a Linux and Windows set of servers, and there is no reason an application can't run on both operating systems, because the JVM abstracts that already.  You just have to be intelligent with your configurations, and not have OS-specific configurations in your application JVM, cluster, Dynamic Clusters.

A Docker container is just a light-weight variant of a Linux OS.  And Microsoft is following suite shortly to get into the container game.

It would be a hard sell to migrate an application running in an Intelligent Management architecture, over to a cloud technology, with how detailed Intelligent Management is for health, capacity, and configuration management.

That said, keep an eye on container technology and if there's a benefit to put a JVM in a container over say, a VM, then its time to make adjustments.