My team pays for GKE. The keys you are talking about are done with K8S + GKE so I don't see how that is much of an advantage other than cost. I want to add a ne

My team pays for GKE. The keys you are talking about are done with K8S + GKE so I don't see how that is much of an advantage other than cost. I want to add a new node, I go to the UI and increment a number. As far as secrets go, there are a couple approaches the K8S community is trying for with encrypted secrets. The one I am rooting for is the integration with Hashicorp Vault. Chances are, that area will be fairly extensible. I agree, 9k contributors and 9k pull requests are not to be scoff at. I wasn't scoffing at them. I'm simply saying that (1) center of gravity and where the influence is now has already shifted off of Docker, and (2) Just like Github.com phase-shifted open-source development (in way that Sourceforge never did), there are three technology in K8S that will likely phase-shift K8S development. This isn't about development power, but about a phase-shift. I don't think I am being harsh on Swarm (and since when was this about being harsh? At the core of this is about whether the technology is fit-for-purpose and helps enable people achieve their mission and Docker is a commercial enterprise) The tipping point has come and gone. I saw Docker squander a lot of developer good-will over the past two years. I remember when CoreOS announced they were creating rkt, there were a lot of backlash to CoreOS. I liked CoreOS but I thought at the time it was a weird move. If that had happened this year, there would not be as much of a backlash.