It also supports pluggable "controllers," which manage the lifecycle of containers.
(So a Kubernetes scheduler + controller is roughly equivalent to a Mesos framework scheduler; see this doc for more details: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contribu... )
Another recent development in this area is CoreOS operators, which leverages pluggable controllers + Third Party Resources and was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12868594
[Disclosure: I work on Kubernetes at Google.]