True, but they are unviable for most startups. most of the solutions outlined here are very, very heavy. I'm a 2 man startup and really cannot invest into mesos

True, but they are unviable for most startups. most of the solutions outlined here are very, very heavy. I'm a 2 man startup and really cannot invest into mesos to deploy a 4 VM cluster. But the news that Kubernetes is leveraging SaltStack is hopeful.