Top 10 Kubernetes Engine Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Red Hat OpenShift
By Red Hat
4.5/5
(302)
Product Description
Red Hat OpenShift is a platform for creating and deploying any application, quickly and easily, on virtually any infrastructure.
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Reviewers say compared to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Red Hat OpenShift is:
Easier to admin
Easier to do business with
Better at support
Categories in common with Kubernetes Engine:
Container Orchestration
Container Management

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)
By Mirantis
4.4/5
(281)
Product Description
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise) is the world's leading software container platform to build, ship, and run any app anywhere.
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Reviewers say compared to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise) is:
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Kubernetes Engine:
Container Orchestration
Container Management

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4.3/5
(276)
Product Description
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a container management service that supports Docker containers and allows users to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
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Reviewers say compared to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is:
Easier to do business with
Better at support
More expensive
Categories in common with Kubernetes Engine:
Container Orchestration
Container Management
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
By Microsoft
4.4/5
(114)
Product Description
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a solution that optimizes the configuration of popular open-source tools and technologies specifically for Azure, it provides an open solution that offers portability for both users containers and users application configuration.
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Reviewers say compared to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is:
Easier to do business with
Easier to admin
Better at support
Categories in common with Kubernetes Engine:
Container Orchestration
Container Management

DigitalOcean
By DigitalOcean
4.6/5
(733)
Product Description
DigitalOcean provides the best tools to control your virtual server in the cloud. Learn how we deliver the most intuitive interface and features so you can start building your web infrastructure today.
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Reviewers say compared to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), DigitalOcean is:
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Kubernetes Engine:
Container Orchestration
Container Management

SUSE Rancher
By SUSE
4.4/5
(118)
Product Description
Rancher is an open-source platform for managing containers that provides a full set of infrastructure services for containers, including networking, storage services, host management and load balancing, work across any infrastructure, and make it simple to reliably deploy and manage applications.
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Reviewers say compared to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), SUSE Rancher is:
Easier to admin
Easier to do business with
More usable
Categories in common with Kubernetes Engine:
Container Management

AWS Fargate
By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4.5/5
(91)
Product Description
AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS and EKS that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. AWS Fargate removes the need for you to interact with or think about servers or clusters.
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Reviewers say compared to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), AWS Fargate is:
Easier to do business with
Easier to admin
More usable
Categories in common with Kubernetes Engine:
Container Management

Portainer
By Portainer
4.8/5
(282)
Product Description
Portainer is a universal container management platform to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and secure containerized applications across cloud, data center, edge, and Industrial IoT use cases. Portainer is trusted by customers across various industries, including financial services, information technology, manufacturing, energy, automotive, and healthcare, to simplify container adoption securely and with exceptional speed. Portainer offers the perfect blend of infrastructure versatility, self-service freedom, and compliance guardrails to deliver containerized applications in a way that suits every part of the organization. Portainer provides extensive support for container orchestrators across every deployment scenario and helps bridge the knowledge gap within every organization.
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Reviewers say compared to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Portainer is:
Easier to admin
Easier to do business with
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Kubernetes Engine:
Container Management

VMware vSphere
By Broadcom
4.5/5
(745)
Product Description
VMware vSphere is a free bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers so you can consolidate your applications on less hardware.
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Reviewers say compared to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), VMware vSphere is:
More expensive
Easier to admin
Better at support
Categories in common with Kubernetes Engine:
Container Orchestration

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