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> be creating an "orchestration crisis"

Spot on, and very well put.

The problem with existing orchestration tools, and tools like chef, puppet, etc. is that they're all a bit piecemeal and complicated. What we need is a step up the abstraction hierarchy, and some standardisation.

We'll probably know when we've got there if companies no longer have any real idea of how many servers or VMs from different providers that they're utilising. They'll just know which applications they're running and how much it's costing them.

It's very similar to mainframe computing, only now it's available to every business and, frankly, every business needs it to be competitive.

"Mainframe" implies sales guys and multi-million-dollar monolithic machines. This might be described as "DIY mainframe."