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> Which part of kubernetes is "developed with the intention to eventually get you to use the hosted version"?

I believe it's all of it. Why else would they spend money on building and promoting it?

I see a semblance to their original motivations in building chrome. By making the web as a whole more competitive, it made google's offerings more competitive (more ad surfaces, more gmail users, less OS lockin). Actually winning the browser war isn't necessary.

For a huge number or organizations, the cloud isn't a meaningful option because the switching costs are astronomical. Kubernetes, otoh, means someone that chooses on prem today actually has a migration path later.

Google benefits hugely from that path just existing.

So it is evil unless I can prove otherwise? Your straw man has been exposed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

You don't have to prove anything. Nobody is on trial here, I hope :)

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