They can't let Google eat up another space.

They lost to the search engine.

I think Microsoft have waken up and realize they need to be active in all spaces that open source is at. It seems like this moves will help their cloud business since there are so much money in there.

Supposely their Azure cloud is doing well and I guess they need to keep at it.

I agree that they're not doing it for the pure of their heart but rather it's money driven and fear of being left behind again.

So when do they throw their Microsoft wrench in it..

"Oh and these Kubernetes features only work on Azure Cloud(tm) running Windows Server(tm), or Microsoft Linux(tm)."

I don't know.. does anyone that isn't a .net shop use Azure? It seems if you are a .net shop, Azure is the best choice. If you are not a .net shop, why use Azure? If Microsoft is going to reach a compelling chunk of AWS and GCE linux developers, I don't think they are going have that easy of a time...

In my very limited experience Azure is much, much nicer than AWS from the admin experience. Its kind of embarrassing for Amazon how bad AWS is in that area. Google CE also has very nice UI.

I understand that Azure is competitive on price, and they do support all of the linuxy things you'd expect from AWS or GCE.

Unfortunately all that comes at the expense of reliability from what I've seen. :/

Ya right, so you are selling me a cloud service by the GUI. I don't use the GUI on any of my providers, so it doesn't really matter. (It might matter to the same subset of people that use remote desktop to "administer" their fleet of window servers)

Like I said, I cannot imaginable that many non .net shops would touch azure. It has neither the features of AWS, nor the magic of GCE.

That's an unusual experience. The Azure API is _horrible_ throughout (the AWS one is more variable, but the common parts are fine). The Azure portal may be pretty, but that is at the expense of being actually usable or useful.

Oh my god, no. The Azure Portal is absolutely the worst part of the Azure experience, by a long, long stretch. I don't know anyone who uses it regularly who likes it.

What kind of reliability issues have you had with Azure that didn't happen on AWS or GCE?

you had me at linuxy... :D

> Microsoft only does what suits Microsoft's interests

As does any other company that wants to survive. I doubt Google will do anything against its own interests.

It's also huge enough that it's able to make contradictory moves.

I doubt Microsoft have much to gain making a competing container orchestration platform. On the other hand, having Azure be a solid place to host Kubernetes is probably a huge financial win for them.