[jacques_chester]

I work for Pivotal and we donate engineering for a product (CredHub) which is comparable to Vault, though with a slightly different set of motivating problems.

We, like HashiCorp, cooperate with Google on a lot of things.

They don't pick winners. What works best for Google is to get your workload into GCP. It matters little whether the bits you run are Pivotal bits, HashiCorp bits, Docker bits, Red Hat bits, IBM bits, Microsoft bits or your own bits.

What matters is that they're being processed on GCP atoms.

The analogy I have used before is that Shell, BP and ExxonMobil don't care whether you burn their fuel in a Ford or a Toyota. They mostly care that you burn their fuel.

I don't mean to paint a cynical picture here. As a partner Google is excellent, responsive and respectful, our engineering cultures have good compatibility and there are deep common interests. But Google's goal is to make GCP the most attractive place to run your workload. That means that they are going to be ecumenical. They want to help us to win, but they want to help everyone to win, because that helps them to win.