Seems to be the only way to really run stuff on kube (and not on GCE), until kube has support for sticky node persistence. It's no coincidence that all of the kube examples use redis as a datastore
Can somebody compare Kubernetes and Marathon+Chronos?
Why would somebody choose Kubernetes over native solution provided by Mesos?
I'm really looking forward to what's coming next in the 2015 roadmap for both Mesos and Kubernetes. In particular, I'm excited about the resource model implementation, which will provide a richer context for scheduling pods.
Disclosure: preillyme is a Mesosphere employee
That's an almost direct quote from the blog post. :-/