Joe Beda is just trying to reduce the amount of work and risk his GCE team takes on supporting Docker. Solomon is re-asserting the Docker project's autonomy.

Joe Beda is just trying to reduce the amount of work and risk his GCE team takes on supporting Docker. Solomon is re-asserting the Docker project's autonomy. There's no scandal here. Tension, yes, but Joe Beda is playing textbook strategies in the interest of Google's business model, and Solomon is giving a mostly textbook response. The Docker team needs some space to execute on the opportunity before them. Space to try, fail, innovate. The end product will be better if they have that space and don't have to achieve equilibrium with too many stakeholders or worry about political microfriction when attempting big leaps. The bleeding edge is bloody; if you need full-featured orchestration TODAY, your best bet is probably something older than Swarm, Fig, etc.