You've given an insightful assessment of the orchestration space -- a modular DIY treadmill nightmare... Currently it seems Kubernetes is emerging from the fog

You've given an insightful assessment of the orchestration space -- a modular DIY treadmill nightmare... Currently it seems Kubernetes is emerging from the fog as a de-facto standard to eliminate all those uncertainty points and provide a common toolset. It's the only orchestration platform that's a turnkey installtion and a turnkey managed service on all 3 major clouds. VMWare is about to open k8s up to the Enterprise market too with a integrated & managed on-prem service [btw VMWare employees: your PKS blog and cloud blog say this is happening mid december 2017... status update, maybe?...]... With a shared deployment pane across the cloud and on-prem, wrapped in drag-and-drop tools from the major VM suppliers and sprinkled with "self-updating" magic and QOL improvements in the next few years, I believe we're at a watershed moment for a shared standard :) Google is pretty good at tricking the industry into training techs for their internal stack.