[scarface74]

I'll stand by my assertion that for 99% of users (maybe even 99.99%), Kubernetes offers entirely the wrong abstraction. They don't want to run a container, they want to run an application (Node, Go, Ruby, Python, Java, whatever)

I agree completely and your comment gives me the perfect opportunity to praise how much I love the flexibility of Hashicorp's Consul+Nomad.

Nomad let's you run almost anything - Docker containers, executables (the raw_exec driver), jar files, etc.

https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/drivers/index.html

Dead simple to setup - one self contained < 20Mb executable that can be used in either client, server, or dev mode (client + server), configuration is basically automatic as either a single server or cluster of you are using Consul.

The stock UI is weak but The third party HashiUI is great.

[jnsaff2]

Don't forget that Nomad has awesome integration with Vault, possibly the best secrets handling out there.

[scarface74]

I played with Vault and it wasn't quite as simple as Consul and Nomad. My major issue was trying to figure out how I would "unlock" the Vault automatically in case of a system restart.

I punted for now and just stored sensitive values directly in Consul encrypted.