Yes. I do k8s all day and this solution wins every time for simplicity where possible. I get it -- service discovery, healthchecks, no downtime deployments, the

Yes. I do k8s all day and this solution wins every time for simplicity where possible. I get it -- service discovery, healthchecks, no downtime deployments, the rest of the k8s goodies -- doing all that in a generic way is hard! So just orchestrate your business logic. There's no shame in that. And you might well come away with a cleaner system than if you tried to wedge everything into Kubernetes or some other orchestrator. I've come full circle -- started with Mesos, moved to Kubernetes, dabbled with Nomad/Consul. I love what Kubernetes offers. Avoid the complexity if you can. If you don't NEED to pay the price. Just don't.