The post provides a laundry list of things that a container orchestrator does for you, and asserts that if you don't use Kubernetes or Nomad you have to implement all those things yourself.
> If you have a set of servers, but no scheduler like Nomad or Kubernetes, you would be forced to do the following on your own:
> Find the optimal server to place the execution of software on, for each deployment, given existing resource utilization of other processes & hardware.
> ...
If you have autoscaling groups there isn't any scheduler that I have to worry about (Amazon of course has one). Certainly I don't have to reinvent ten wheels just because I choose not to use a container orchestrator.
