The legit use case for companies like Google/Amazon etc is only to sell it to customers. None of these companies use K8s internally for real critical workloads.

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bitexploder 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ehm, that is simply not true. Google built it for themselves first. It is essentially the open source version of the internal architecture. It gets used.

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zaphar 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I worked at google. k8s does not really look at all like what they used internally when I was there, aside from sharing some similar looking building blocks.

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oblio 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, but is the internal tool simpler? I'd be surprised.

	▲	zaphar 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Simpler to use? yes. Simpler under the hood? No.

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akdev1l 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also Amazon definitely uses k8s for stuff.

Teams are free to use EKS internally.

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oblio 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Google uses Kubernetes' grandpa, called Borg, for everything.

But to quote someone: "you are not Google".

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littlestymaar 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I said “something like k8s” above, and Google for sure uses something like k8s called Borg.

	▲	rantanplan 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, it is Borg. Not k8s. Granted it is similar