How do Mesosphere ops (who are developers first, maybe not so experienced with the operations side) normally manage these services, like Gestalt? How do you keep track of what should be running and how resources should be allocated? Do you just install directly from this service repository, and then update resource allocations as needed, through Marathon or the service itself? Or, do you have a system for managing and versioning the entire cluster?

I'm new to Mesosphere, and right now, I'm figuring out a process for managing the cluster that would work well for a small but growing team. It would be nice to have a specification of what the cluster should look like, and how it has changed over time. For that, I'm thinking of having a "{company}-DC" git repository with a collection of Ansible playbooks that would set up the DCOS cluster, and then install, configure and set up scaling policies for the services and applications that we want to run. Is this how most people do it? Do you see problems with the general idea of keeping all of Mesosphere under configuration management? Where do secrets fit into this, where do you store them and how do you make them available to your applications?