[bobobob420]

Any software engineer who thinks K8 is complex shouldn’t be a software engineer. It’s really not that hard to manage.

[LordKeren]

I think the key word is “needless” in terms of complexity. There are a lot of k8 projects that probably could benefit from a simpler orchestration system— especially at smaller firms

[javadevmtl]

For me it was DC/OS with marathon and mesos! It worked, it was a tank and it's model was simple.There was also some nice 3rd party open source systems around Mesos that where also simple to use. Unfortunately Kube won.

While nomad can be interesting again it's a single "smallish" vendor pushing an "open" (see debacle with Teraform) source project.

[fragmede]

do you have a simpler orchestration system you'd recommend?

[javadevmtl]

No, it just looks and feels like enterprisy SOAP XML