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> That being said, why would I not use the actual free upstream Kubernetes for my on-prem distribution ? (with the help of one of the thousands installer out there like kube-adm, kubespray, etc).

None of them actually provision your infra for you (VMs, LB rules etc). GKE On-Prem will.

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Ok, thanks I got it, you are bundling everything into a VMWare image, that boots ready to use.

Is it fair to say that this is similar to Canonical Ubuntu MAAS + Juju Kubernetes? I'm sure that Red Hat Openshift must have something similar also to install directly on a pool of managed bare metals.

I don't know enough about Juju K8s to really say similar it is. GKE On-Prem will be an OS image, set of containers, config, tooling and support.

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