[fn1]

Why did Google then release the complex Kubernetes to the world than their simpler internal tools?

[amannm]

To loosen up AWS-entrenched customers and their much more varied use-cases, probably.

[eadmund]

I've long wondered if K8s is really a dastardly scheme to hold back the industry …

[tazjin]

It's basically impossible to release this kind of internal tooling due to the way Google works. You'd have to rewrite it, or open-source essentially the entire foundation, and Google probably doesn't want to do either.

[zikduruqe]

It's a ninja smoke bomb to distract the tech world into thinking we are cool like Google.