I wouldn't be surprised if Ubuntu started a project similar to Redhat Atomic (and now CoreOS/ContainerOS).
On GKE, one advantage of using Ubuntu as the node OS is you can get access to Sysdig or OpenEBS.
On GKE, one advantage of using Ubuntu as the node OS is you can get access to Sysdig or OpenEBS.
Thinking about it - with Linux KSM the overhead of full-fat containers based on Ubuntu (for example) isn't massive. We may have to look at the metrics I reckon.