Kubernetes 1.3 released
I&#x27;m still sitting on the sidelines waiting for the easy to install, better documented for AWS version. It&#x27;s also a bit unclear as to why we are talking federation and master&#x2F;slave in 2016; other systems are using raft and gossip protocols to build masterless management clusters..<p>Watching issues like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;issues&#x2F;23478" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;issues&#x2F;23478</a> , and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;issues&#x2F;23174" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;kubernetes&#x2F;issues&#x2F;23174</a> .. I&#x27;m not super interested in &quot;kicking the tires&quot;; I&#x27;m evaluating replacing all our environment automation with a version built around Kubernetes. Easy-up scripts that hide a ton of nasty complexity won&#x27;t do the trick.<p>Following the issues I&#x27;m getting the impression that too much effort is being put into CM style tools vs making the underlying components more friendly to setup and manage. Did anyone see how easy it is to get the new Docker orchestration running?<p>Then there is the AWS integration documentation.. I&#x27;m following the hidden aws_under_the_hood.md updates, but I&#x27;m still left with loads of questions; like how do I control the created ELB&#x27;s configuration(cross zone load balancing, draining, timeouts,etc)?<p>I re-evaluate after every update and there are some really nice features being added in, but at the end of the day ECS is looking more and more the direction to go for us. Sure, it&#x27;s lacking a ton of features compared to Kubernetes and it&#x27;s nigh but impossible to get any sort of information about roadmaps out of Amazon... But it&#x27;s very clear how it integrates with ELB and how to manage the configuration of every underlying service. It also doesn&#x27;t require extra resources(service or human) to setup and manage the scheduler.