If Google wants to be the go-to provider of clouds their open source Kubernetes strategy is pretty backwards. As it stands, though, they've got their competitors reselling their orchestration platform technology giving them platform control moreso than a selling point for their cloud.
> I'm still hesitant to conclude that K8s has "won" or something
Take a look at Azures container offerings (kubernetes itself or kubernetes compatible), along with the AWS equivalents. All three major cloud platforms have managed kubernetes solutions now. That doesn't mean competing orchestrators are dead, but they're hiding in their bunkers hoping that the worst is over...
> There was a story here two weeks ago about the absurd complexity of it.
Yeah it's absurdly complex, except when compared to the absurd rats-nest of almost-there not-quite-compatible technologies it has replaced ;)
There are lighter weight solutions for lighter weight problems, but map the DevOps cycle from A to Z and Kubernetes is head-and-shoulders simpler than competing solutions. Simpler, more comprehensive, standardized, and better documented. Add in cross-cloud portability and you've got something hard to compete with.
> I'm still hesitant to conclude that K8s has "won" or something
Take a look at Azures container offerings (kubernetes itself or kubernetes compatible), along with the AWS equivalents. All three major cloud platforms have managed kubernetes solutions now. That doesn't mean competing orchestrators are dead, but they're hiding in their bunkers hoping that the worst is over...
> There was a story here two weeks ago about the absurd complexity of it.
Yeah it's absurdly complex, except when compared to the absurd rats-nest of almost-there not-quite-compatible technologies it has replaced ;)
There are lighter weight solutions for lighter weight problems, but map the DevOps cycle from A to Z and Kubernetes is head-and-shoulders simpler than competing solutions. Simpler, more comprehensive, standardized, and better documented. Add in cross-cloud portability and you've got something hard to compete with.