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I used to do sales for an enterprise "open source" software product, so I get it, but the truth is as soon as someone stops paying people to keep the project go
by 4636760295 6y ago
I used to do sales for an enterprise "open source" software product, so I get it, but the truth is as soon as someone stops paying people to keep the project going it will die.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoWho pays for k8s development?
- closeparen 6y agoGoogle. Commoditizing the cloud is their strategy to make GCP relevant.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoQuestion was rhetorical, I still appreciate the effort though.
- shaklee3 6y agoNot at all. Hashicorp literally pays for all development of nomad. They're the only commits short of a small number of PRs. Kubernetes commits are from a wide array of companies, and Google is only one.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoAnd just as with Kubernetes and Google, Nomad development can continue outside of Hashicorp if Hashicorp no longer decides to support it. Which org has a longer track record of deprecating almost everything they release? Not Hashicorp, and frankly, I’ll always trust Hashicorp versus Google based on the historical behavior and forward incentives of both.
- shaklee3 6y agoIt's not quite the same. Hashicorp controls whether PRs get merged. Google does not control whether PRs get merged into kubernetes. There's a long list of companies that do, including IBM, redhat, Huawei, etc. Sure, you can fork it, but now you have a separate repo that requires people to know about it.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoI’m not trying to convince you. If k8s works for you, that’s great! I choose to work at places that pick Nomad instead. Best tool for the job.
- shaklee3 6y agoAgreed, thanks!
- SahAssar 6y agoSeems like some projects survive their parent company abandoning them like illumos (successor to opensolaris). It's not common, but also not impossible.
- throwaway2048 6y agoits hard to say illumos is in good shape compared to when opensolaris was being worked on by Sun, or Joyent however.