CoreOS is essentially built for running containers, which is how Google have described the Debian 7 image deployed in this preview. CoreOS has a number of features that are really geared towards running it as a bare metal OS (won't elaborate on that here, their docs do a good job of explaining), which is not the use case here so can't really blame Google for going with something more familiar (to them).
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CoreOS is essentially built for running containers, which is how Google have described the Debian 7 image deployed in this preview. CoreOS has a number of features that are really geared towards running it as a bare metal OS (won't elaborate on that here, their docs do a good job of explaining), which is not the use case here so can't really blame Google for going with something more familiar (to them).
https://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/cloud-providers/googl...
gce is one of the providers listed in the official docs, and I assume the CoreOS guys have had some interaction with gce people.