It's great to hear GKE is meeting your needs so well! (Yes, I work on it.)

For 1.4, the Kubernetes Cluster Lifecycle and Ops SIGs are working on making the install and setup process much easier, including on AWS [1]. That won't magically turn it into Kubernetes as a Service, of course, but we hope it'll help users on other platforms.

[1]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-clus...