I'm surprised they didn't mention Cloud Foundry, which runs on OpenStack, vSphere, AWS, Azure and ... GCP. It's owned and managed by an independent foundation a

I'm surprised they didn't mention Cloud Foundry, which runs on OpenStack, vSphere, AWS, Azure and ... GCP. It's owned and managed by an independent foundation and is the most mature of the open PaaSes, having a head start of several years. I guess they see it as a competitor to Kubernetes. Or, plausibly, Google is very large and the engineers who are working on Cloud Foundry integration with GCP are not known to Miles Ward, Head of Global Solutions. I work for Pivotal, we donate the majority of engineering to Cloud Foundry. We make our money selling a distribution, Pivotal CF. Cloud Foundry's ability to switch cloud providers, or to take a cloud inhouse, and in future to do so seamlessly, is very attractive to our customers. IaaS providers remind them the bad old days of RDBMS and middleware lockin and they do not want to go back. As for the services, it's good that Google are pointing to open alternatives.