I used mesos a while ago across a couple of cheep VPS for personal projects and services and it was great. I especially liked that I could used a shell executor

I used mesos a while ago across a couple of cheep VPS for personal projects and services and it was great. I especially liked that I could used a shell executor to run services with filesystem access. For many environments this probably didn't make sense but for me I could put some secrets on the filesystem and services could make unix sockets available to nginx for SSL and hostname based forwarding. Also with Nix I could easily install software the specific services needed and it was trivial to integrate into the garbage collector making it much faster than launching a docker container. That being said the project wasn't moving that fast and it was a bit buggly for me and nodes would regularly get into loops where they couldn't authenticate with the master for various reasons (I think there were timing issues and timeouts that caused issues over the internet). Now I'm using Kubernetes but I have all of this complicated virtual networking that I don't need, I'm locked into docker-like containers and the thing is so complicated that I need to pay someone to run it for me.