The Kubernetes team has been doing a lot of work to make these admin tools less and less necessary. More and more pieces of it can be run from within K8s itself. For example etcd used to need to be set up and managed externally, now it's just inside. And extensions are growing up too; see CRD's in 1.7.

And unlike setup & management tools, it appears that we have a clear "winner" for K8s app management: helm. And there's more overlap than you'd expect. For instance I recently typed "helm install prometheus" and not only did it install prometheus but it installed it with all the hooks necessary to monitor the K8s cluster.

I'm not sure why I can't do the same to get an elasticsearch, logstash & kibana stack (or similar competing stack) set up as a cluster logging solution. AFAICT right now you have to have the right flags set on your kubelet startup script to do this, but that's the sort of thing that I hope & believe that K8s is making better.

And setting up a glusterfs cluster to use as a storage provider also did a surprising amount of its setup in k8s.

Obviously K8s setup can't quite be reduced to a simple `apt-get install kubelet`, but hopefully eventually it isn't much more.