[tlrobinson]

Presumably because of all the reasons they chose Kubernetes?

FTA:

* Kubernetes has a huge amount of traction in the DevOps landscape, with managed implementations from all the major cloud vendors and virtually endless training materials and complementary technologies.

* Kubernetes is open source, which was a major plus: it meant that we could avoid vendor lock-in and implement local development environments that mimic production.

* Kubernetes has a large feature set that fit well with our requirements, including our more exotic necessities like autoscaling based on custom metrics.

AFAIK none of those are true of AppEngine.

[riku_iki]

> Kubernetes has a huge amount of traction in the DevOps landscape

the appeal of AppEngine is that you don't need DevOps, google manages and monitors services for you.

[tlrobinson]

That's also true of "managed" Kubernetes platforms like Google Kubernetes Engine and Amazon EKS, the difference being no (or at least less) vendor lock-in.

[riku_iki]

But you still need to write your app deployment scripts, integrate logs and monitoring.

[ukd1]

^ this is why it won

[spyspy]

GAE comes with a full local dev setup out of the box. You can even run multiple apps with one command.

[auslander]

> Kubernetes has a huge amount of traction in the DevOps landscape

Definition of 'hype' here :)