Hi, I was in an IBM Startup Accelerator. I just got the feeling that they were pushing for it hardcore. Gave us startup credit, free training and free premium support for K8s. So If you want to go with K8s and you are a Startup, that is the best offering I experienced.
Maybe they're using Openshift (OKD). Openshift has a bunch of value add features they add a template marketplace and turn it into a hybrid PaaS with some other multitenancy management bits afaik
OKD is slightly different than the OpenShift (OCP) provided on IBM Cloud. OpenShift is on all clouds but IIRC OpenShift on IBM Cloud receives OCP updates first.