Just as a side note here, Google is doing Kubernetes as a commoditize your compliment strategy (https://www.gwern.net/Complement) so they can sell other cloud compute services. This makes it easier for people to migrate their on-prem workloads to Kubernetes, and then to the cloud. This commoditize much of what Amazon was attempting with ECS. Forcing Amazon to fast follow with EKS, arguably a worse and much more complex to deploy product than Google GKE.
It makes it so it's hard to make money off container orchestration, but you can still make money off what Google is good at, or at least thinks they are good at. Selling compute, proprietary databases, and stuff like TPUs.
My point is that yes, Google is advancing the whole industry by releasing Kubernetes as opensource, but it's also a strategy to sell more of GCP and deny some revenue to competitors.
It remains to be seen if it works. GCP is still a distant 3rd in the cloud race and has a long way to go to improve their enterprise support. (Their usability is much nicer though...)
It makes it so it's hard to make money off container orchestration, but you can still make money off what Google is good at, or at least thinks they are good at. Selling compute, proprietary databases, and stuff like TPUs.
My point is that yes, Google is advancing the whole industry by releasing Kubernetes as opensource, but it's also a strategy to sell more of GCP and deny some revenue to competitors.
It remains to be seen if it works. GCP is still a distant 3rd in the cloud race and has a long way to go to improve their enterprise support. (Their usability is much nicer though...)