For what it's worth, I can't even downvote :)

I don't know the _eventual_ direction of Kubeflow/TFX -- but in our TFX pipelines you still get to choose where it runs. From the docs:

> Apache Beam is an open source, unified model for defining both batch and streaming data-parallel processing pipelines. TFX uses Apache Beam to implement data-parallel pipelines. The pipeline is then executed by one of Beam's supported distributed processing back-ends, which include Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Google Cloud Dataflow, and others.

You can also choose to run it on Kubeflow itself.