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Many of the k8s founders have left google. Google doesn't use it internally. I'd actually start looking away from gcp at this point for k8s, given google's hi
by daxfohl 9y ago
Many of the k8s founders have left google. Google doesn't use it internally. I'd actually start looking away from gcp at this point for k8s, given google's history of dropping stuff that they're bored with.
- lobster_johnson 9y agoMany of the founders (e.g. Brendan Burns) are still working on Kubernetes, so I don't see how that's relevant. Google is heavily invested in Kubernetes, and so is a bunch of other companies. According to googlers here on HN, Google does use Kubernetes internally via GCP/GKE. But clearly those apps are in the minority, given Google's huge investment in Borg.
- daxfohl 9y agoI thought Brendan Burns went to Microsoft and was working on something unrelated now?
- lobster_johnson 9y agoLast I checked, he's working on Azure's Kubernetes solution.
- jcastro 9y agoGoogle has lots of people still working on k8s. I wouldn't equate Google's consumer facing products with their cloud/enterprise products.
- shaklee3 9y agoBrendan Burns and Joe Beda both work at other companies on kubernetes. Joe founded a startup to work on it. Why would they do that if they hated it?
- manigandham 9y agoGoogle does not just drop enterprise products and services. They definitely have a problem with consumer (messaging) apps, but that's completely different.
- jasonvorhe 9y agoComing from KubeCon Europe, I can confirm that Google is anything but bored from k8s. Google's spring-cleaning has nothing to do with their open source projects. Kubernetes is one of their most widely used open source "products" and the industry is creating an incredible community around it with several big players that could easily jump in to take over project leadership and financing. It is actually a good thing that some k8s founding members left Google because they already got what they wanted to achieve and went on to work on stuff that Google probably wouldn't have prioritized as much, see Ark and kssonnet. Kubernetes is IMHO the platform for cloud native applications for the next 5+ years. Not wanting to use it because Google dropped everyone's darling (Reader) is rather naive.
- jasonvorhe 9y agoI mean, they just announced a new container runtime called gVisor to further increase security for containerized apps. It's pretty clear they want to be able to offer fully managed multi-tenancy Kubernetes clusters that execute untrusted code.