> Google conspiracy theories - (Google is doing it to lock everyone in).
My own conspiracy theory is slightly different: Google's aim is to scorch the earth so that AWS cannot form a locked-in position.
I don't think they immediately saw this possibility, but that they moved swiftly and energetically to support the growth of Kubernetes once they did see it.
The alternatives for Google were all strategically painful. ECS might have become successful, meaning a loss for Google. Mesos or Docker Swarm might have taken off, leading to snap acquisitions of the relevant companies by Microsoft or AWS, again a downside for Google.
As the plurality contributor to the commoditising winner, Google is able to prevent the other two cloud giants from pulling ahead on container orchestration.
Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we have a Kubernetes-based product (PKS) we co-develop with Google and VMWare.
My own conspiracy theory is slightly different: Google's aim is to scorch the earth so that AWS cannot form a locked-in position.
I don't think they immediately saw this possibility, but that they moved swiftly and energetically to support the growth of Kubernetes once they did see it.
The alternatives for Google were all strategically painful. ECS might have become successful, meaning a loss for Google. Mesos or Docker Swarm might have taken off, leading to snap acquisitions of the relevant companies by Microsoft or AWS, again a downside for Google.
As the plurality contributor to the commoditising winner, Google is able to prevent the other two cloud giants from pulling ahead on container orchestration.
Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we have a Kubernetes-based product (PKS) we co-develop with Google and VMWare.