> Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-creators of this project and working on Kubernetes so my opinions may be biased.
We met quite a large number of customers in the last few months, and several teams inside Google, who are asking for a stack that runs on any cluster.
There are several reasons for a layer like this.
(a) Today, it's extremely hard to deliver large agentic applications to someone else's compute, and it kills adoption for products that need to run closer on customer data plane, e.g. large scale code scanning product.
(b) It's tedious to build systems that set up the environment, deal with networking policies, provide integrations for session storage, memory curation, skills retrieval and mounting, etc while all you want to do is to focus on building applications.
(c) People want a truly transparent stack for compliance/auditing, and all other non functional capabilities most people don't usually think about until they have to.
We met quite a large number of customers in the last few months, and several teams inside Google, who are asking for a stack that runs on any cluster.
There are several reasons for a layer like this.
(a) Today, it's extremely hard to deliver large agentic applications to someone else's compute, and it kills adoption for products that need to run closer on customer data plane, e.g. large scale code scanning product.
(b) It's tedious to build systems that set up the environment, deal with networking policies, provide integrations for session storage, memory curation, skills retrieval and mounting, etc while all you want to do is to focus on building applications.
(c) People want a truly transparent stack for compliance/auditing, and all other non functional capabilities most people don't usually think about until they have to.