Wonderful! Great job.
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One big reason to use Marathon + Chronos + Mesos is to get multi-tenancy of compute and data workloads on your instances. You can't get that with web-service specific tech like Tutum.
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Pros: - Logical isolation. You can put instances (and RDS, Redshift) etc. inside logical subnets that are not addressable from the outside world. - VPNs. If you really want extra security, you can wire up VPN so one of your VPC subnets shows up on your corporate subnet.
Cons: - A complete pain to manage with SSH-based tools. Most deployment tools (Ansible, for example) and even lower-level tools like fleetctl don't play well (if at all) with jump boxes. Example - Ansible Tower requires instances that are publicly addressable OR placing a Tower instance inside a VPC (which means we can't use it to manage multiple VPCs) - We have had to write our own workarounds for the above con. - Complexity. There are more concepts to learn about. - Lack of portability. I don't know if all cloud providers (Azure, DO etc.) even support VPCs the same way AWS does. This makes our infrastructure less portable than I'd like
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I can see us using Terraform when it is a little more mature - basically more AWS providers. Give it 2 to 3 months :)
Also, does it export templates to CloudFormation? I'm wary of using a SaaS to manage my infrastructure if it doesn't give me a way to revert to core AWS services.