(Early employee) We liked 1.x/cattle as much as the next person but it was clear 4 years ago that k8s was going to win the mind-share & market. Competing with

(Early employee) We liked 1.x/cattle as much as the next person but it was clear 4 years ago that k8s was going to win the mind-share & market. Competing with that was a slow and painful path to irrelevance. Which was the path Mesos chose, along with Docker/Swarm to a large degree. (Please stop running 1.x, especially if exposed to the internet; it hasn't been updated in ~3 years now and everything up and down the entire stack it supports are going to be full of CVEs.)