[slgeorge]

The direct competitors to Anthos are whatever the other cloud vendors do here.

Anthos and OpenShift are trying to create a 'PaaS-lite', or maybe Orchestration++ is a way to think about it.

Alot of the K8s vendors are trying to build a complete experience: for both operators and developers. You can use the CNCF's capabilties (K8s, Prometheus, Istio, etc) to build a container orchestration and developer experience.

(Disclaimer - work in this area). Maybe the difference is that OpenShift is quite tightly bound, whereas Anthos is more modular. The complexity is how all the elements are plugged together and the overall life-cycle.

NOTE: Weaveworks builds application platforms built from CNCF technology so I definitely have 'opinions' in this space