The real problem is going from tutorial to something you would use in production. Throw in logging, security and service discovery and you can have a few engineers hacking away for months.

So I want to plug a project I've been contributing to: https://github.com/CiscoCloud/microservices-infrastructure

We're trying to make it super easy to deploy these tools. For example every time you launch a docker container, it will register with consul and be added to haproxy. The nice thing about using Mesos is we can support data like workloads Cassandra, HDFS, and Kafka on the same cluster your run Docker images on.

We use terraform to deploy to multiple clouds so you don't get locked in to something like cloudformation.