> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
If you run a docker container on autoscaling EC2 instances that register with a target group, you have apparently "written your own orchestrator."
> 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.
