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Ashok K.

DevOps Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/26/2022

"Best Self Managed K8'S Cluster"

5/5

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

Auto pilot feature and Integration with cloudrun Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Rate limiting is something impacting applications since we are using auto pilot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):

if you application has more load and need performance and in case if you are familiar with k8s I highly recommend using GKE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing internal tools with swarm was little hectic i must say moving to k8 helped with GKE it is less operational centric and improved performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ivan Z.

Chief Technology Officer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2021

"Easy, convenient and powerful tool for DevOps"

5/5

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

Unlike manual installation and support of Kubernetes cluster you can easily select needed configuration, number of nodes and their types and then simply push the button and just wait - your cluster will be ready in several minutes. It has a powerful console as well as GUI interface. GKE has native integration with load balancers and storages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It`s price - it could be cheaper, but nevertheless it still costs its money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):

If you need to start fast with Kubernetes in the GCP Cloud, you should definitely consider this managed solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Deployment of microservices architecture that has been written with different technologies and languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Praveen K.

SDE-3

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/18/2022

"Senior Devops Engineer"

4/5

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

This is the best orchestrater tool for container service, Google manages Kubernetes, so there are many options for networking related configuration that is not available in other cloud provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

if you are new in GCP or GKE, then normal documentation is not sufficient to resolve all kinds of your issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shobhit S.

Member Of Technical Staff 2

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/31/2020

"My experience with Google Kubernetes Engine"

4.5/5

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

The thing I like the most about GKE is its ease of use. GKE provides the perfect balance between abstraction and having the ability to control some of the important Kubernetes related configurations to its users. The inbuilt cluster autoscaler, out of the box monitoring for the cluster and the ease with which you can build and attach multiple nodepools to your cluster are some of the most useful features that make GKE stand out from other managed kubernetes service providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Although the pros heavily outweigh the cons, the thing which GKE could improve more upon is the support and serviceability it provides to it's customers using relatively older Kuberenetes versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have made our entire application stack run on Kubernetes and in all major public clouds, GCP being one of them. So we've had first hand experience in using Managed Kubernetes Services provided by all major public clouds and the ease and pace with which we were able to bring up and teardown new Kubernetes clusters using GKE during our POC was a lot compared to other clouds. We didn't have to worry about having to deploy our own cluster autoscaler as GKE provided it out of the box and for every single nodepool we had created. The cpu and memory based monitoring for pods provided by GKE helped us a lot in our POC for running our application on Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/14/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"GKE is a great service"

4.5/5

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

If you have tried setting and using Kubernetes then you will know it can be handful managing it. But wth GKE we can get started in no time, Google's browser built cloud shell makes it even more easy to get started with GKE. One other feature I liked is the nodes utilization, how much CPU and memory is being used, how much is available, etc. giving good visibility into state of the cluster. On top of that if too much of the resources is not being used then GKE alerts and ask if we want o reduce the size of the cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Finding logs and errors can be complex. All the logs are moved to stackdriver and I folt the logging/monitoring/error exploration has some room for improvement. If we use their web based cloud shell its great but when I tried to setup local gcloud based CLI on windows through WSL2 I had some challenges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):

If you are looking container orchestration and deployment tool then GKE is one of the best option in the market. Considering Kubernete is something google had developed that makes it more better as they would understand it better. If you are looking for Hybrid model of Kubernetes then Anthos is another option to keep in mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In recent project I was trying to setup multiplayer game servers using Agones framework on top of GKE. Again as I mentioned in the start its the ease of use is what makes it really beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/4/2021

"Excellent product which helps us concentrate on Applications rather than underlying maintainability"

4.5/5

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

Deployments, Services, secrets at a single place and ease to navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Kubernetes Logs transmitted to Cloud Logging have a delay of around 10 sec. I instead use kubectl commands for the latest ones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tejas G.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/18/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"GKE is one of the best kubernetes platform I have worked on. Its simple and robust."

4/5

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

Pros:

Easy to work on google cloud

Reliable and robust

Improving with new features and enhancement

Easy to upgrade, handling or managing workloads on GCP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cons:

Lack in most of the tools or features support from google. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Toukir Ahmed S.

Full Stack Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/21/2020

"Very easy going to use"

5/5

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

Very well documented and most of the features can be used with just the user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I haven't found anything to dislike yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):

It's actually great to use and very user friendly. Using GKE actually saves me a lot of time and I can make rolling updates in just few button clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I make app deployments in GKE with management ssl certificates and load balancing.

The benefits are that it's quite fast and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/25/2020

"A joyful learning environment with GCP and GKE"

4.5/5

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

The interface based on GCP and the flexibility for deploying the containers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Pricing should be managed well and there are few situations where we want nodes to be in a single center but distribution of nodes on various centers may be confusing and takes bit time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):

For beginners it's best to take up online courses that has the hand on labs it will be very helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I learned gke through my college and courcera it's a step up of docker and docker swarm on large scale in a different way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.