1) The people on that page all contribute mightily to the project in various ways - we wouldn't be where we are without them. We take feedback from everyone (we have over 15 special interest groups, many led by non-core team members).
2) K8s developers are most definitely not primarily sponsored by Google - more than 60% of K8s devs are NOT Googlers.
3) Overlay networks are definitely not a hack - many partners set them up with great benefit. The fact is networking is hard (tm), and unless you're just looking for a flat network, then you're going to have to use SOMETHING.
1) The people on that page all contribute mightily to the project in various ways - we wouldn't be where we are without them. We take feedback from everyone (we have over 15 special interest groups, many led by non-core team members). 2) K8s developers are most definitely not primarily sponsored by Google - more than 60% of K8s devs are NOT Googlers. 3) Overlay networks are definitely not a hack - many partners set them up with great benefit. The fact is networking is hard (tm), and unless you're just looking for a flat network, then you're going to have to use SOMETHING.
Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes