Much of the distributed system management tooling seems to be in its infancy. For exapmle, if I have one host, I can manage dependencies by adding them to my d

Much of the distributed system management tooling seems to be in its infancy. For exapmle, if I have one host, I can manage dependencies by adding them to my debian/control files, and apt-get/dpkg will figure them out for me. If the services are installed on separate hosts, I'm on my own. I haven't found a proper solution for managing service dependencies distributed on several hosts. (Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10487126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10487126). So when even the most basic managment tasks are solved for distributed systems, why does it surprise anybody that more advanced state management is still in the "you're on your own" stage? I'm sorry, but I can't help my cynicism here.