[bogomipz]

>"I've worked on gravitational (gravity / telekube) flavoured K8s distribution designed for on-prem data centre deployment models for the past few years."

This sounds interesting. Can you say what K8S distro this is?

[terrywang]

Telekube (renamed to gravity by Gravitational - which has again rebranded to Teleport ;-)

Open source edition: https://github.com/gravitational/gravity

Note: We have been using its 5.x branch (tracking K8s 1.13.x) for a long time. That's why later on BYO K8s model was introduced ;-)

[bogomipz]

Thanks. Oh that is confusing. I think I actually became more confused after I read the announcement of their name change :)

Wasn't Teleport the original name for the product?

I'd be curious to hear what's your plan going forward now that gravity is no longer under active development.

[terrywang]

The existing appliance model will continue to be maintained (until upstream EOL it - or when the support agreement ends).

In the meantime, to address the same requirements from customers who wants some control (K8s stack, VMs, networking and storage are theirs), managed K8s' on-prem distribution may be the answer, I'll be exploring EKS Anywhere see how it works and see if it's a viable option to replace the appliance model moving forward.