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> Surely there is no way for any "multi-cloud" company to keep up with the constant changes and growth of products at all these companies that they can abstrac
by empath75 8y ago
> Surely there is no way for any "multi-cloud" company to keep up with the constant changes and growth of products at all these companies that they can abstract between them in any meaningful way without constantly falling behind.
This is the appeal of kubernetes.
And yes, it does make cloud providers glorified datacenters. I think k8s is an existential threat to aws long term. They're not going to be able to maintain their profit margins on ec2.
- scarface74 8y agoAnd Kubernetes still can’t give you all of the benefits of managed databases, queuing, messaging systems, etc. If you’re only using the cloud to do VMs at scale, you’re probably spending more than baremetal and spending just as much on maintenance. Kubernetes adds yet another level of complexity.
- lima 8y agok8s was a genius move by Google, and it's working. Especially with OpenShift, it will commodize PaaS. I'm hoping the same thing happens with Knative.
- ben509 8y agoThat's a great move by Google, but it's a terrible move for Google. I'd love to see PaaS and FaaS commoditized, but precisely because I want to write apps that run on both vendors and transfer capacity back and forth depending on who is cheapest at the moment.
- mamon 8y agoAnd that works in Google's favor currently, since they are small player entering the PaaS market, and they need to compete with AWS on price, because their offering is less mature and they don't have counterparts to many of AWS services. Making migration easier is a reasonable strategy for them.