Google's commitment to the Spinnaker project reflects its motivations for developing internal tools that support elastic infrastructure, continuous delivery, and self-service capabilities. Spinnaker, initially created by Netflix and open-sourced in 2015, serves as a crucial instrument for managing VM and container deployments across various cloud platforms. Key future plans for Spinnaker include native canary support, enhanced configuration options, and a significant '1.0' release scheduled for April.