Moxie Marlinespike (Openwhisper Systems, Signal) makes a good argument for why that doesn't work https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DoeNbZlxfUM. Recommend watching the whole talk.
1. Contribute early on little by little
2. Contribute nothing to very little for a while amassing huge fortunes (and compound interest magic), then donate big.
Pretty much the same question as lump sum vs dollar cost averaging in investing.
> That being said, why would I not use the actual free upstream Kubernetes for my on-prem distribution ? (with the help of one of the thousands installer out there like kube-adm, kubespray, etc).
None of them actually provision your infra for you (VMs, LB rules etc). GKE On-Prem will.
What we have found out is that most on-prem customers are eager to move to the cloud. Practically it's not easy to just lift-and-shift. So think of this is a ramp to the cloud.
Now, the benefit of upstream K8s is that your dev team can build apps and containers without proprietary APIs; so when you are ready to move to the cloud you are not locked-in.
GKE On-Prem is a Google provided, validated and supported distribution of Kubernetes and extensions that offer a GKE-like experience in your on-premise datacenter. It makes it easy to install and upgrade Kubernetes and provides access to GCP services such as monitoring, logging, metrics, security and auditing for your on-premise installation. It is the foundational component of the Cloud Services Platform, and is how Google "brings the cloud to you".
CSP combines Kubernetes both in your on-premise datacenter (GKE On-Prem) and Google-managed Kubernetes in GCP (GKE) with Istio and other CI/CD (Cloud Build) and serverless (Knative) products. You can leverage this suite of products to both modernize your existing on-premise applications and build new applications in the cloud.
Additionally, Google will be offering phone and email support similar to the existing GCP support packages.
Yes and no. The connection is needed to show your workloads and other cluster information in GCP Console (similar to what was shown in the keynote). However, if the connection goes down, your cluster will not stop working.
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If Apple doesn't revert these dumb changes, I will simply get a Dell or something else.