No, that's the pitch that Amazon / Google makes. Kubernetes has a much more complicated value proposition that you have to grasp the hiring dynamics of Google t

No, that's the pitch that Amazon / Google makes. Kubernetes has a much more complicated value proposition that you have to grasp the hiring dynamics of Google to really understand. Google hires really smart people but smarts isn't necessarily skills. So it builds tech to leverage that workforce. Other companies hire skilled people that aren't necessarily super-smart, because super-smart people can make a lot more money at Google. So other companies use Google / Amazon, they don't really care what underlying techs it uses, so long as they know they'll be able to hire people with the skills. If you're rolling your own Kubernetes, you're putting your faith in your own smarts, because you're largely on your own. K8s rewards a certain kind of developer, and badly punishes someone thinking running their own k8s is going to be as seamless a process as consuming GCP resources.