Anything for everybody
Google (and Amazon, Microsoft, and all the other big players) don't care how you want it set up, they only care that they can make your setup run on their software.
If your server is 5 old Windows XP devices linked together, they want to be able to say that they can containerize or virtualize or whatever-else-ize it.
This is not to demean Google's effort. To be a player you have to recognize that one size doesn't fit all and mixed use is the norm within most companies. Their future direction sounds even more interesting if they can pull it off.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
