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by andrewl-hn 2921 days ago
The plan to move to Google Cloud was in motion for many months, way before talks about a potential GitHub acquisition started.

They adopted Kubernetes relatively early, and as they progressed their reliance on Azure-specific services went down. At that point move to another cloud was a purely financial decision.

The move to k8s was not strictly a means to allow cloud migration. GitLab sells their Enteprise product, and the Kubernetes-based deployment helps customers with product trial and adoption. Cloud migration is a welcomed side-effect of that initiative.

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> At that point move to another cloud was a purely financial decision.

And this is the promise of k8s for companies (and the peril of k8s for cloud providers).