[bkeroack]

This is basically why Kubernetes exists: for all the plumbing, discovery, etc required on top of bare containers.

It still requires work to go from zero to production-quality stack, of course.

[steveb]

We like Kubernetes (and are looking to add it to our project), but our goal is to integrate building blocks that allows us to run many different types of workloads. Think of our project more like an Ubuntu for distributed systems.

Kubernetes may eventually spread out beyond Docker, but for today we need to support things like Kafka and Spark.

As others have noted, we've had things like CloudFoundry, OpenShift and Heroku, and these all-in-one frameworks tend not to extend outside their original domain.

[jacques_chester]

You should look at Cloud Foundry again, particularly with the introduction of Lattice. It used to be tied to apps, now it basically thinks about tasks and processes in a completely generic way.