[holografix]

Let's not forget that Google wanted/wants a piece of the IaaS/PaaS pie and AWS has a huge first mover advantage. Someone smart at Google said:

"Hey we have this barely usable, rocket-science level complex, container orchestration tool. How about we make it available to everyone and make sure the message is that you can deploy anywhere? Get people to look at us as an alternative instead of AWS as the default, while using a tool built by us".

Of course AWS was not excited about supporting a tool that might make it easier to leave AWS.

[pcnix]

This is a pretty good read on Google's strategy for dealing with AWS - https://stratechery.com/2016/how-google-cloud-platform-is-ch...

[ratling]

Borg may be rocket science but k8s is not. Especially now that they've put a couple years into the documentation and tooling.