[justinsb]

100% agreed and looking forward to that - kops is a big part of that effort, actually. If you look under the hood you'll see that kops uses a lot of the kubernetes apimachinery. There's obviously a tricky chicken & egg situation with first creating a cluster specifically, but the hope is that a lot of the post-installation activities you do with kopscould be done through kubectl (e.g. adding groups of nodes of a different instance type) , talking to those same kops API objects on the k8s apiserver. The apimachinery team has been doing great work to enable this, that seems to have to fruition in k8s 1.7.