[TheIronYuppie]

Hi - I work at Google on Kubernetes.

The biggest reason people use Kubernetes is because it is the best solution to solve the need "how do I bring my containers to production." You're absolutely right, you can solve this in many other ways, but, no matter what, you're going to have to address the problem of scaling, updating, monitoring, logging, securing, maintaining persistence, implementing 12-factor applications and many many other things before you do - Kubernetes solves all this for you.

Just a quick correction - Kubernetes is not based on etcd, nor do you have to set up half a dozen components. There are three components to Kubernetes - an API server, a scheduler and a controller manager - there are flags, true, but you can easily use a configuration file (just as you would with any other production ready server).

If you saw anything that's badly documented or buggy, please let me know!