Four years after its release, Kubernetes has come a long way
I think the kubernetes project is heavily driven by Google marketing, and that they are not doing this out of charity, but because they are trying to get you to use their cloud platform in the long run. They know getting somebody to build their stuff on open-source kubernetes is a win for them. After some time people will realize that running kubernetes yourself is actually harder and more fragile  than just running your app without it and at that point the obvious move will be to use a hosted kubernetes service, like Google's cloud.<p>And I really think just handing over all our apps to google to run them for us is <i>not</i> in our (developers) interest in the long term. It would further solidify Google's "monopoly of the internet" position and also means that in the future - once we have succeeded in convincing our bosses to just rent every interesting bit of technology from google - that the only interesting jobs left will be... at Google.<p>So please go ahead and downvote me, but please also try to consider my point of view (that there is a ton of very aggressive marketing with a financial incentive going on here) next time you read and defend some kubernetes hype piece.