[mbakke]

Ah, the irony of scale!

As far as I know, Google does not actually use k8s for their public facing services (or anything at all?). I would love to be corrected on this.

Google was able to scale quickly back in the day by keeping things as simple as possible. "1 hard drive per server" level simple. Center everything around one massive job scheduler (Borg).

Of course a lot has changed since that time, but I can't see Google upending a established infrastructure by making k8s plugins for their network requirements, tying k8s into Borg, etc. It would give less visibility and debugability for little gain.

(But again I have zero inside knowledge here)

At scale there is no one size fits all. Kubernetes can fit a lot, but will always fall short of a tailor made solution.

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