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Jonathan Yu

Google Cloud is a leader in its support of open standards, but that strategy may be changing.

There are some great things: first-class support for Terraform, compatibility with Istio (Anthos Service Mesh), Kubernetes, Knative (Cloud Run.)

Increasingly, however, they seem to be introducing proprietary equivalents of de-facto standard systems that they could integrate with, such as Custom Compute Classes instead of a Karpenter provider (as with AWS & Azure).

cloud.google.com/kubernetes-en

Google CloudAbout custom compute classes  |  Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)  |  Google CloudUnderstand how to control autoscaled node attributes in GKE clusters.

@jawnsy sounds like the Cisco playbook still works

@puercomal What do you mean? I thought embrace/extend/extinguish was the Microsoft playbook :)

I had expected a transition to more lock-in at some point, but figured that it would be after they got more adoption than they have to date.

@jawnsy I mean they both learned at the knee of IBM ;) but yeah, I do think there’s an acceleration of the process with cloud tech that threatens to leave the mainstream behind