Pivotal and VMware are working on this. From what I’ve seen (yet to play around too deep with this yet) looks promising. You’ve got it spot on though, just needs to be simple.
https://pivotal.io/containers/deploying
I work for Pivotal. PKS is our product in the Kubernetes space, co-developed with VMWare and Google. The opensource project we based PKS on is Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, CFCR.
We are basically bringing all the stuff we learned building Cloud Foundry to bear on Kubernetes. There's also an increasing amount of systems being shared. Right now Istio is seen as the long-term north-south and east-west routing solution for Cloud Foundry App Runtime (CFAR, what folks traditionally thought of as Cloud Foundry). We're looking at introducing Loggregator to the Kubernetes world as Oratos, we have factored buildpacks into standalone systems that can have a single image builder for any OCI-compliant platform, we led the formation of the Open Service Broker API effort that creates a common service catalogue approach for both CFAR and Kubernetes, we've contributed to runC and I lose track of all the rest.
When I say "we" I should say this isn't just Pivotal. IBM, SAP and SUSE are deeply involved as Cloud Foundry community members.
Check out also VMware's container service extension (CSE) on Github. CSE makes it easy to pop up clusters on vCloud Director, which is the VMware cloud stack used by a lot of service providers.
Disclaimer: I work on CSE and use it for K8s dev/test. It's really handy.
We are basically bringing all the stuff we learned building Cloud Foundry to bear on Kubernetes. There's also an increasing amount of systems being shared. Right now Istio is seen as the long-term north-south and east-west routing solution for Cloud Foundry App Runtime (CFAR, what folks traditionally thought of as Cloud Foundry). We're looking at introducing Loggregator to the Kubernetes world as Oratos, we have factored buildpacks into standalone systems that can have a single image builder for any OCI-compliant platform, we led the formation of the Open Service Broker API effort that creates a common service catalogue approach for both CFAR and Kubernetes, we've contributed to runC and I lose track of all the rest.
When I say "we" I should say this isn't just Pivotal. IBM, SAP and SUSE are deeply involved as Cloud Foundry community members.