>Most kube focused customers move to GKE.
Do you have some sort of citations to back this up? Out of the 20-ish or so fortune 500s I work with directly and indirectly, not a single one has a gcp presence and every one of them uses kube somewhere in the business.
Re:Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP
by CloudNetworking on Friday May 03, 2019 @06:48AM
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Most of those comments come from folks in the startup scene, so that's what they think the world is.
I worked at MS for a few years and during that time everything looked like Enterprise to me, which is the opposite effect :)
For some reason it seems Google Cloud folks also swarm this threads. If commenters have Google stock, they probably should disclose that on threads like this.
I'll back this up, I work with enterprise customers to adopt kubernetes. I frequently have customers do installs on both AWS and Azure. I have never had a customer as much as consider GCP without me asking whether it was an option. Even then, it was uniformly dismissed. Google has a cool platform, but they've got major mindshare issues.
GKE gives a sweet deal to encourage it because they see the long tail revenues.
It's a pretty easy decision for anyone based on k8s. I see this more a sponsored ad for kubernetes than I do for Google.