Just saw Borg, Omega, Kubernetes: Lessons learned over a decade (2016) (acm.org) https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2898444 pass by.

" Dependency Management

Standing up a service typically also means standing up a series of related services. If an application has dependencies on other applications, wouldn't it be nice if those dependencies (and any transitive dependencies they may have) were automatically instantiated by the cluster-management system? "