[TheIronYuppie]

Can you say more about the complexity you're worried about? The projects you mention WILL land in 1.4 (which is about 90 days away), and thousands of companies are running huge production deployments on AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack and on-premises. Further, plug-ins already exist for Chef, Puppet, Salt and Ansible, if you'd like to use them.

To be clear, nothing is "masterless" - please go check out the production deployments for other container management solutions, they all require a separate control plane when running in production with a cluster of any reasonable (>64 nodes) size. FYI, it's a best practice when running a cluster of any size to separate the control plane.

To your direct question, with the other orchestration tools, how would you manage your ELB? Wouldn't you have your own management? They don't (to the best of my knowledge) do any sort of integration - not even the minimum level that Kubernetes does.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes