[yeukhon]

You can, but is Google going to make their environment so compatible with other cloud platform? Actually, how many major players do we have in this space, capable of delivering a true cloud environment?

AWS, Microsoft, and Google.

When AWS first started, it was EC2 and S3, so the model was about VM without worrying the bare metal. But as the platform continues to grow to challenge its competitors, the platform will begin to add more services which are only available and are proprietary to the its own platform.

[wstrange]

> is Google going to make their environment so compatible with other cloud platform?

Yes. Google's strategy with Kubernetes is to commoditize the cloud - making them all functionally interchangeable. Write to Kubernetes, and your app runs on AWS, GCE, Azure, etc...

They are betting that they can deliver raw CPU cycles, network bandwidth, lower latency etc. - better/faster/cheaper than their competitors.

[yeukhon]

I am not familiar with GCE so I can be absolutely wrong, but my way of thinking is that any time anyone says something can run the open source version anywhere, true, but when it comes to offering a paid service, making some technology native to the platform, means there can be difference such as customized APIs or customized features which may never get backport into the community/open source version.

[SEJeff]

That is very clearly not how they are working with Kubernetes. They are doing it entirely in the open and even recently hired one of their huge community contributors (shoutout to Kelsey Hightower) to the team. If they were doing an "open core" version, my money would be on Kelsey speaking out against it. Besides, given their goal of making the cloud a commodity, they can't do what you say.