I love the idea and concept behind it so far but I sadly don't have time to check the status and read the relevant blog articles about every cool new OS project i'd like to follow... especially if they are so potentially business critical.
Am I wrong in my prioritization or do others have similar feelings in this regard?
If you wait until most people are saying its production ready, that's because most people are already using it in production. If you wait until that point to start learning it then you will be behind.
One of the ways we're working risk-averse businesses who have bought in to the idea, is to pick a pragmatic project that's low stakes and will ship to production sometime late Q1 or Q2.
This provides best of both worlds. Low risk project gets visibility inside of the company, and is a strawman for future implementation. Win/win for everyone.
Solomon (lead maintainer of Docker) has done a brilliant job reconciling all of these projects and community needs in to their essence and implementing just enough to satisfy a plethora of use cases.
Some things become de-facto production ready before that, but if you don't have time to follow it that closely, that's what 1.0 is for.