Disclaimer: I work at Mesosphere. There are alternative runtime implementations (such as Mesos/Mesosphere DC/OS) that let you have best of both worlds: develop

Disclaimer: I work at Mesosphere. There are alternative runtime implementations (such as Mesos/Mesosphere DC/OS) that let you have best of both worlds: developers can still use Docker and produce Docker images but you use production-grade container orchestration (and that same Docker images) without using Docker daemon for your actual service deployment.