[hardwaresofton]

Just a heads up -- some parts of the coreos site really make it seem like tectonic is only for enterprise -- it actually turned me off it while I was reading the documentation at https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/

Right now my plan is to start with bare kubernetes just to cement understanding and then add rancher, before looking at any other higher level system (I mean there's stuff like helm out there, but it just seems to be too many levels above the ground for me at this point). I'm also using ansible right now (and relatively new to that too, but it's basically just fabric on steroids so I'm not too stressed about it), so I haven't started using terraform yet (but want to).