GitLab's move off Azure to Google cloud totally unrelated to Microsoft's GitHub acquisition. Yep
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/26/gitlab_moving_platform_to_google_cloud/
From the department of "yeah, right" comes news that GitLab is shifting its platform from Azure to Google in order to take advantage of the ad giant's Kubernetes technology.
It is, of course, absolutely nothing to do with cosying up to developers still anguished following Microsoft's purchase of GitHub. Nope, absolutely not. Been planned for ages.