Thanks for clarification! The TechCrunch article might indeed be click-baity, but OTOH it seems credible to me Google wouldn't be maintaining k8s indefinitely when they've nothing to gain. I understood Google said as much when they were calling on other parties (presumably AWS, Azure) benefitting from k8s more than Google itself to engage in k8s development. Though I'm not sure Azure, and much less AWS, would have a business case for doing so.