[kross]

All major cloud providers have/will have managed kubernetes and they are free to use the name, therefore I doubt it could be regarded as direct marketing for GCP. I would expect many to consider GCP but I just don't perceive this as a backdoor way of Google getting your apps, given the broad buy-in by the cloud provider community.

[caniszczyk]

Yes, there's a conformance/certification process required to use the name that ensures portability: https://www.cncf.io/certification/software-conformance/

[firebacon]

Well yes, you can replace Google with like two or three other companies in my comment. At the end of the day I don't like the trend of outsourcing all the interesting bits of technology to a handful of mega corporations. I think it is not a good bargaining position for us developers, Google and the like can already get away with paying shitty salaries and it will only get worse the more control they have. For all the smaller companies, they are paying a cloud provider instead of hiring local talent to build solutions. It's loose/loose.

[kross]

That's effectively anti-globalization. Adapt and overcome. Good developers will always have a job in the forseeable decades to come, weak or stagnant developers will be at risk, it is a maturing industry. White knuckling tech by resisting change/momentum is no more effective than starting a trade war with tariffs.