[Rockjodd]

We still want it to be promoted to beta, so it is actually available in GKE and other cloud vendors.

Alpha level cluster in GKE gets wiped every 30 days, nothing you want to run any production workload on.

Of course you have the option of self-hosting..

[jasonvorhe]

If you can't move your workloads to a new cluster within 30 days, you should reflect on how you're using Kubernetes.