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> In the future (some would say near future), all of the cloud services will be offered as kubernetes APIs (via a set of domain specific CRD) If (big if) some
by ethbro 7y ago
> In the future (some would say near future), all of the cloud services will be offered as kubernetes APIs (via a set of domain specific CRD)
If (big if) some standardized variant of kubernetes "wins."
K8s was transparently Google's strategic shot at forcibly commodifying AWS.
But everyone has their own agenda. Google, Microsoft, and (to a lesser extent) Amazon could survive in a world of fully commodified compute. Give their compute assets are essentially surpluses from running their other businesses (advertising, software sales, and online retail).
So none of them have a strategic imperative to derail k8 evolution.
But managed, specialized cloud services are lucrative to all of them (especially Amazon). So their best-case isn't a fully commodified future.
- dodobirdlord 7y ago> Give their compute assets are essentially surpluses from running their other businesses (advertising, software sales, and online retail). This is mythology. It is mostly not actually true.
- ethbro 7y agoSource? Do any of the major clouds publish their base, first-party load?
- dodobirdlord 7y agoConsider the ever-expanding region lists of cloud providers, and it becomes clear that the vast majority of cloud infrastructure was purpose-built to support their cloud offerings.
- ethbro 7y agoYet at the same time, expanding their own use. I doubt very much the first deployment of Gmail looked anything like its footprint today. More regions doesn't necessarily stem solely from customer demand. I expect the vast majority does, but without numbers, that's just a guess.