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At Elementary we're working on [atom](https://github.com/elementary-robotics/atom) which is a ROS-like OS for your robot in which each element (effectively a "node" from ROS) is docker containerized. Docs [here](https://atomdocs.io/) It also gives you more powerful serialization options on the wire (no serialization, msgpack and arrow currently supported) and has some nice data APIs due to using redis streams as a message brokering backend.

It's still pretty early and doesn't have nearly as many features or open-source packages but it's helped us be nimble and avoid a fair amount of the build/maintenance headaches.