It's (the idea to manage on prem K8S from the cloud) a reaction to 1) Hyperscalers doing hybrid cloud 2) VMware's growingly independent approach to K8S (which

It's (the idea to manage on prem K8S from the cloud) a reaction to 1) Hyperscalers doing hybrid cloud 2) VMware's growingly independent approach to K8S (which I believe will ultimately result in VMware offering "generic" Kubernetes) 3) IBM Redhat becoming more aggressive with their on-prem approach (let's not forget SoftLayer and Redhat OCP can do hybrid K8S on bare metal, without VMware) 4) On-prem-focused vendors like NetApp having announced similar service (NetApp Kubernetes Service, which already works in all hyperscalers and on-Prem NetApp HCI is next) in recent months. Pivotal's on-prem problem (compared to IBM Redhat, NetApp) is problem is they have little on-prem presence, sell no hardware or storage, and need to rely on DellEMC and VMware (which have been great for Pivotal but that was when Pivotal played nice and wasn't helping VMware (and Dell) customers escape to non-VMware based clouds.)