[AlexB138]

They claim this is because of their focus on Kubernetes, but I have to wonder how much of this has to do with Microsoft acquiring Github. That aside, that's a tough slight for AKS.

[giancarlostoro]

I think GV investing $20 million on them helps too:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/09/gitlab-raises-20m-series-c...

[cobookman]

GV is not partial to a particular cloud vendor. They do not push GCP onto the startups they invest in.

[rockostrich]

Do the start-ups that they invest in get discounts/credits/a better rate though? They might not push GCP, but they may give incentives.

[giancarlostoro]

Certainly doesn't hurt the recipients view of other Google offerings.

[erazor42]

Agree, this is the first thing i thought when i read that. Reaction to all troll on the fact that gitlab was hosted on Azure

[detaro]

Except they announced this before it was known that Microsoft buys Github...

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/

[benatkin]

They might have put these two things together: https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/430871267881672704?lan... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/21/github_ceo_chris_wa...

[detaro]

And would have looked very stupid if they had been bought by Google instead: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/05/github-interest-from-google-...

[sid_k]

To be fair, AKS wasn't generally available until about a week ago. And while in preview, there were some significant issues with AKS (they themselves recommended not to do production deployments on it for the preview period).

[benatkin]

I don't think moving to GKE implies that AKS is inadequate. They could just be choosing the best of two excellent options.