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We ran on AppEngine from launch to exit, great experience. Never had to worry about configurations, environments, maintenance, reliability, scalability etc. We just focused on building our product.

We tried to use app engine and it was a nightmare for us. K8s has a ramp, but it’s been incredibly smooth now that we’re setup and going.

I've found deployments to be much more slow than I'd hope for in both

Do you have any examples of non-proprietary solutions?

Knative + buildpacks is one. CloudFoundry is open source too (although CF now runs on Kubernetes I think)

Cloud foundry offers their old(er) architecture as well as 2 ways to get the “cf push” experience over Kubernetes. Check out KubeCF and cf-for-k8s. Both of these are open source projects that you can deploy to a Kubernetes infrastructure of choice.

[1] https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/kubecf [2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-for-k8s