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# Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Reviews
**Vendor:** Google  
**Category:** [Container Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-management)  
**Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 260
## About Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
A scalable and automated Kubernetes service. GKE is a simple way to automatically deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes.



## Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users find Google Kubernetes Engine&#39;s **ease of use** exceptional, appreciating its smooth deployment and integration with Google Cloud services. (9 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **easy setup and seamless integration** of Google Kubernetes Engine, enhancing their cloud experience. (9 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **deployment ease** of Google Kubernetes Engine, enjoying seamless integration and smooth cluster management. (6 reviews)
- Users value the **seamless integrations** of Google Kubernetes Engine with other Google Cloud services, enhancing deployment efficiency. (6 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **easy setup** of machines and networks with Google Kubernetes Engine, streamlining deployment processes. (6 reviews)
- Customer Support (5 reviews)
- Users highlight the **exceptional scalability** of GKE, enabling rapid scaling for critical workloads, improving efficiency and cost management. (5 reviews)
- Container Management (4 reviews)
- Free Credits (4 reviews)
- Kubernetes Management (4 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users find the **pricing model complex and expensive** , making it hard to estimate costs compared to competitors. (8 reviews)
- Users find the **complexity** of GKE challenging, particularly with advanced settings and a steep learning curve. (4 reviews)
- Users find GKE&#39;s **poor customer support** frustrating, citing inadequate documentation and a lack of timely assistance. (4 reviews)
- Users find the **documentation lacking** , making it difficult to understand services and troubleshoot effectively in GKE. (4 reviews)
- Users find the **complex learning curve** for GKE challenging, especially for those unfamiliar with Kubernetes concepts. (3 reviews)
- Cost Issues (3 reviews)
- Limited Features (3 reviews)
- Users note the **steep learning curve** of Google Kubernetes Engine, making it challenging for beginners to navigate its complexities. (2 reviews)
- Learning Difficulty (2 reviews)
- Not User-Friendly (2 reviews)

## Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Reviews
  ### 1. Moving from on prem to cloud k8

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

You dont have to reconfigure the machines were the cluster is running on. I can easily adapt and scale without having the hardware on prem issues (volumes being full etc)

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

It's a quite steep learning curve to get to know the cools. Once you get hold on gcloud it's all ok.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The support we have in house from support teams is not necessary anymore. 

  ### 2. Kubernetes engine removes a lot of admin overhead.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Brecht H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Kubernetes engine removes a lot of admin overhead.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Deployments with deployment manager seem to fail when the version of kubernetes has been updated.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

less admin overhead


  ### 3. k8s engine

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** hariharan v. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Ease of use, clear documentation and better admin options

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

we should have so tools or logging to expose data at the network level

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

run dockers

  ### 4. Phenomenal setup and accessibility

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Thomas J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Ease of setup. I had a cluster setup within 10 minutes.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Beyond the time it takes to spinup a cluster, nothing.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Ease of deployment

  ### 5. Way to Go Kubernetes

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** kalyan k. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

ease of usage and extensibility of Kubernetes 

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

extend to other cloud providers like aws and azure

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

on demand deployment for varied applications

  ### 6. Prouction workload on k8s in a jiffy

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

GKE take care of  the networking and security aspect very well. 

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Long way to go to have hybrid cloud. May be GKE on-prem for edge compute. 

**Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):**

It is good approach to start with GKE and then expand to K8S on IaaS for hybridcloud 

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have lot of data which has not been consumed for not thought of value addition.

  ### 7. Efficient K8 aaS

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Steve N. | Software Engineer, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

What I like best are performance, easinesss.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

What I dislike is GKE is still on compute engine.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Micro-services

  ### 8. Going well so far

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Google is the industry leader in Kubernetes - they wrote it.  We desire to work with the best.  

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

We have not encountered any areas that Google hasn't come out with an alpha or beta release that resolves our concern.  

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are using GKE to begin containerizing 3rd party applications that would otherwise be running on a VM.  

  ### 9. Best in class hosted Kubernetes solution

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

GKE takes care of all the hard work of maintaining a kubernetes instance.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

I wish that my company had the millions of dollars of engineering time to host kubernetes in house.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have an in house container orchestration platform that we've been able to move to GKE, freeing up engineering resources from maintaining that infrastructure.

  ### 10. GKE Cluster Management

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

The ease of management and fast start up time on GKE is great and its integration with image registry and cloud image builder allow for an easy to manage deployment flow.


**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Intermittent issues aquiring enough VMs (especially in us-west) when autoscaling.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Building and deploying microservice and datapipelines that leverage existing open source software.

  ### 11. Fast, Easy, and Good For Development

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Controlled rollout of new applications (and rollbacks).  Easy provisioning of DNS, Load balancing, etc. Network logging and statistics.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Remembering the appropriate commands. There are a number and I must always have a cheat sheet.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Deployment of Node based Javascript applications.  Faster development time, faster rollbacks, easier provisioning of new environments, application level control.

  ### 12. kubernetes benefits

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** aniket p. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

its scalable, simple, easy, extensible, cloud ready

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

lack of enterprise readiness, partner integrations

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

app modernization

  ### 13. GKE review

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Worry free k8s cluster management for our production workload.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

GKE clusters only recently can be added to shared vpc.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Worry free cluster management for our api gateway that we use to expose our internal and external apis. Operational work on these clusters are minimal and they can focus on other areas.

  ### 14. GKE - For production use

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Simple to spin up an teardown the services, However, at times, have noticed that it takes a while shutdown the pods. 

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Masternode contains public IP, We dont want any Public IP exposed to internet.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are using it for ML building and ML serving for our product

  ### 15. Good user interface 

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Beautiful UI for the GCP dashboard, intuitive interaction, easy to calculate and predict bills

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Too much security settings, could be either good or bad from many perspectives, but to me, it's a little to much

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Easy and rapid CICD process, clean and effective deploying codes or images.

  ### 16. Moved from GCE to GKE

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

We moved from GCE VMs to Kubernetes. Kubernetes gives us amazing flexibility with how we deploy and deliver our platform.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

The online documentation is sometimes out of date.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Kubernetes has enabled our whole CI/CD platform. We're now able to push out releases within minutes rather than hours.

  ### 17. Great

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

It seems to best in the market with level of ease and orchestration.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

There is nothing much to dislike, but sometimes cloud shell will behave weirdly due to connectivity issues

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Currently we are in discussions to use it and I am doing pox on it

  ### 18. Kubernetes Engine is awesome

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

I am able to manage my Kubernetes clust using various tools like Spinnaker and Istio

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

There are a ton of instances that get spinned up when using GKE.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Managing multiple vms and esxi hosts. we can move much of our workload into the cloud.

  ### 19. Great Managed Service

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

I love the fact that I don't directly need to manage nodes in the cluster

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Complexity of deploying a kubernetes cluster is higher than deploying an ECS cluster, which is where we migrated from. Once it's running, the admin is lower.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Scalable REST APIs

  ### 20. The best Kubernetes environment for enterprise with openness

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

With being open in all technology used in GKE, it gives us transparency and we do not have to get worried about any breakdown.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

I don't have problems to say at this moment.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Easy lift and shift from legacy systems.

  ### 21. Love all Google products

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kristy C. | Technical Business Analyst/Product Owner - Yellow Hammer BSA & Fraud, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

I love all google products and Kubernetes is no exception! So easy to use and navigate! I would recommend this to anyone in IT! 

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

I haven the really found anything that I dislike about Kubernetes. Like all google products it's so easy to learn (if you know how to navigate a computer.) 

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I use it for orchestrating code and my project schedules. 

  ### 22. GKE - production grade service

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

- Fast spin up
- CI?CD and other tooling including monitoring support

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

cross-cluster multi-cloud cmulti-vendor support not yet there

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Way better than managing a Cloudfoundry cluster which is just a nightmare to debug when things go wrong.

  ### 23. User friendly with lot of examples and labsT

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

The platform is extremely stable. The realibility and high availability amazes me. Use of Jenkins for CICD for deployuments.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

As I am exploring, I dont have anything to share.


**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Containerization]
Microservices for REST APIS]
Logging and Auditing

  ### 24. GKE is swesome 

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

I like the fact that with GKE you can instanitate many PODS quickly and extend the functionality as well 

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Would like it to be more user friendly and be able to be extended easily 

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Deoploying microservices 

  ### 25. Love the Managed K8S

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Managed service for k8s, auto scaling of the pods to support demand.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

User Interface for admin of cluster can be improved, not much else.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

DevOps for ML for clients who want a cloud provider agnostic solution

  ### 26. User friendly Container Management

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

It"s an intuitive solution to work with Kubernetes. It"s easy to setup a container.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Currently I"m totally satisfied with the product.

**Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):**

Test it with a small container first.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Scale business logic without load problems.

  ### 27. GKE Usage

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Very user friendly, and lots of capabilities that will help us move to GCP.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

None so far that I can think of. Have to explore a bit more.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Moving to Cloud Native Global platform

  ### 28. Best cloud runtime

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Ease of spin up in a secure environment, scaling speeds.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

The support and service around GCP, particularly in a legacy enterprise setting, is abysmal.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

A generic, portable application runtime that spans globally.

  ### 29. Great service but, needs to catch up with existing updates

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Stable offering but it needs providing sufficient capability to deploy prod apps

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

There is a considerable lag between the existing tech updates and current offering ith GKE

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Transforming legacy apps to containerized apps

  ### 30. advanced and elastic container solution

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

very well manageable. easy to scale up or down. Fully autmoation for opeartion. Easy and reliable to deploy, update etc.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

big and steep learning cure. so many conceptions. 

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

service scability

  ### 31. Kubernetes

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

easy to manage the clusters. we are using in the phase of testing.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

nothing so far, we are in the phase of testing

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

we are in early phase of testing

  ### 32. Cloud Agnostic, easy to use

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

cloud agnostic, easy to use, it's great for security, config management, consistency, and automation

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Training and best practice materials could be improved

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

deploy SaaS solutions across cloud environments

  ### 33. Use it

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Yeasy to set up. No reason to do it any other way

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Not much to dislike, this makes life easier managing containers.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It makes life easier managing containers.

  ### 34. Great Product

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

The ease to deploy applications across multi clouds.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Needs more for handling configurations. overall it is a decent product

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Healthcare applications for high availbility and maximizing resource usage

  ### 35. K8 rev

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

the ease of deploying containers and management

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

the time major vendors are taking to get up to speed with K8's with their product offering. 

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

scalability and devops

  ### 36. Useability of GKE and its scale

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Simple nature of setup, the cli integration between gcloud service accounts and then kubectl etc

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

needs better support for istio and multicloud connectivty

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

portable applications between clouds

  ### 37. GKE is the Kubernetes Enterprise Edition

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

It's the best implmentation of Kubernetes.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Gets a little expensive at times, but there are decent work arounds.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Using it to replace an on premise Mesos/Marathon implementation.

  ### 38. Easy and simplify kubernetes and just be focus on your app

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

the fastly evolutivity of product and the master management by  google 

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

nothing but i m q big fan of this solution

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

master management was solved

  ### 39. GKE Review

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Closest platform service that aligns to CNCF

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Nothing in particular.  Istio mesh would be nice.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are not using this in production in my current company.

  ### 40. I had limited experience but from what I've seen I like

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

how well it works on gcp, with cloud registry and cloud build

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

I have nothing to complain about, its better than openshift

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

scalability

  ### 41. Intuitive

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

intuitive CLI / Shell usage. easy commands.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Nothing that I can think of. But monitoring and visualization  can be improved

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

application development and scaling

  ### 42. Awesome!!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

we didn't have any major issues. Minor kinks were worked out.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Really not much. We had trouble recruiting people with advanced skillset

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Container management 

  ### 43. Awesomesauce

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

autoscaling clusters, easier to use then AWS EKS

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

nothing really, the UI for google cloud in general feels a little unintuitive

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

auto-scaling with load

  ### 44. was easy to get started and launched

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

autoscale capability across multiple containers

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Kubeflow support may need some improvements. It is still at its infancy.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Manage container at scale

  ### 45. My GKE feedback

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

The automation capabilities, dev ops friendly 

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

very cryptic and limited help in certain features 

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Devops automation and web based applications

  ### 46. I like GKE

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Its the best version of k8s on a cloud provider

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

A better way to ensure seemless upgrades

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

container optimization and service optimization

  ### 47. Gke is great

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Ease of use, console access and logging integration

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

No dislikes so far, everything works well

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Managing complex workloads a 

  ### 48. Review about Kubernetes

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

It works as the fastest container engine so far. I work Kubernetes with Docker and running multiple applications.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Managing containers are not too much quick and fast.

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I want Kubernetes to be approaches to many more open source community.

  ### 49. Great product

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

one of the top managed Kubernetes services. 

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Integration with CICD and Service mesh is not there yet

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

applications workload

  ### 50. Faster time to market with Kubernetes

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018

**What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

Ease of deployment with string integration in existing CI/CD devops chain.

**What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?**

There is not anything major to dislike. Stronger integration will help.

**Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):**

Excellent tool to easy your orchestration and deployment journey

**What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Time to market, lesser platform dependency.


## Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Discussions
  - [What is Google Cloud Anthos Config Management used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-google-cloud-anthos-config-management-used-for) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes
  - [What is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-google-kubernetes-engine-gke-used-for) - 2 comments, 1 upvote

- [View Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/google-kubernetes-engine-gke/reviews?page=5&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-02+02%3A21%3A00+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=154be609-0875-43cf-91be-6717bc3ead91&secure%5Btoken%5D=9fe31bb8eced310b185bb62234f077dbacbd45ab826256864f67d20b00eb33fb&format=llm_user)
## Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Integrations
  - [Dynatrace](https://www.g2.com/products/dynatrace/reviews)
  - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews)

## Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Features
**Management**
- Access Control
- Network Isolation

**Organization**
- Packaging 
- Container Networking
- Orchestration

**Development**
- Architecture
- Virtualization

## Top Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Alternatives
  - [Red Hat OpenShift](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-red-hat-openshift/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (290 reviews)
  - [Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)](https://www.g2.com/products/mirantis-kubernetes-engine-formerly-docker-enterprise/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (277 reviews)
  - [Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (249 reviews)

