Canonical introduces high-availability Micro-Kubernetes
This is very interesting, we're seeing a lot of Kubernetes "flavors" coming out that remove the etcd requirement.  It's no secret that etcd is a key part of why Kubernetes is complex--etcd scaling/securing/recovery is really hard.I think Kubernetes would do well to make swapping out the storage backend possible without having all of these forks.  Kubernetes is too tightly coupled to etcd, and for little benefit.  I would wager a lot of customers would trade the guarantees etcd provides for a simpler deployment.