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Interesting definition of general availability.

All the technical pages still seem to carry the message:

> This product or feature is in a pre-release state and might change or have limited support

Pricing directs you to "contact sales"

If you do want to try it out, it seems you need to fill out a google docs form.

I don't have a great idea about what the product does, but it seems to require use of an active google cloud account.

A multi-cloud platform product, having a hard dependency on a single vendor, seems like a non-starter. Doesn't that defeat the main purpose of going multi-cloud in the first place?

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Anthos is built on Kubernetes, so if you don't like it, you can go run your containers somewhere else. The Anthos promise is that it makes it easy to have a managed Kubernetes service on any cloud or on-prem, with the same management UI and controls.

I'm also a bit curious what a multi-cloud platform product not built by a single vendor would look like. Are there any credible OSS offerings in this space?

I think that the OSS alternative to this business model is a decentralized app. The hardware sits on many different people's computers around the world instead of a giant center owned by a giant corporation.

For example, OrbitDB was discussed here only a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918467

Edit: IPFS and this DB give a decentralized storage solution. There might be a decentralized processing solution as well, that I'm not aware of.

Theoretically you will be able to just run your Pods somewhere else, obviously, but if that was all Anthos gave you, then you were not in the target demographic anyway.

I am willing to bet, although I have not tried Anthos, that the subset of stuff from your deployment process, identity handling, etc. that will "just work" if you try to move from Anthos to some random vanilla Kubernetes offering will be far too small and that you will practically speaking be locked in to the Anthos platform.

I think Crossplane[1] could be a candidate here. It allows cloud services to be provisioned via native CRs in your Kubernetes cluster and mount their credentials to workloads that can be scheduled to any kubernetes cluster, either provisioned through Crossplane or imported via Kubeconfig.

[1]: https://crossplane.io/

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Disclaimer: I am actively contributing to Crossplane.

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