[InTheArena]

The second version of Swarm (the first version built into the stack) was really unstable. It got a bad reputation very quickly in one area that it could not afford to.

That said, I was at a conference, talking with a CIO of a K8s related company, back during the initial days of that startup ecosystem. I was told off the record that Google and Redhat were offering an "marketing budget" for companies that would come on board the Kubernetes ecosystem. The person rightly stated that K8s was going to roll everyone else because of it.

Can't validate that - it's hearsay, but I definitely think that it was a big factor