--- title: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Reviews meta_title: 'Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 260 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 260 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Containerization url: https://www.g2.com/categories/containerization --- # 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'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'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. Good for scalable applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yiwen Z. | Director, Management Consulting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Kubernetes is the center of the training session we offered internally. After setting up jupyterhub, the pod management is so easy. Every use will login and one new pod will get created for their own use. Largely saved our time to manage the services. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The persistent storage set up is kind of painful. We have to create a persistent disk, and detatch that from the vm to be able to use it in GKE. This happens everytime when we update the files. At one time the disk's read write policy changed, and no gke can read it for some reason we never get to figure out. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** we offered the internal training session using GKE. Deployed jupyterhub on top of gke, and every use can have the exact same environment, and the training jupyternotebooks to work on their exercises. largely saved the time for the users to create their own environment ### 2. Solid kubernetes experience but encourage better security than defaults **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kesten b. | Kesten Broughton, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Latest updates, great managed service and a clean API. Connecting to the cluster via the UI is a great experience. Page layouts are generally well designed. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** We do penetration testing and the attack vector is typically to compromise a pod and then attack the Kubernetes infrastructure. With the default settings, this is fairly easy. The details are described on 4armed.com hacking kubectl on GCP. The ideal scenario via the UI would be in the UI to check the security level desired. If it is low, current defaults are fine. Medium, conceal the metadata serivice and add all extra audit logging. Suggest PodSecurityPolicy and Network Policy. High = enforce all best practices and require explicit exceptions to over-ride any insecure settings. Praetorian would also like to know what the roadmap is to truly fix the system:node whitelist for the certificate request signing controller. Also, it is a bit hard to find the service_account for the pods/nodes. Please make this easier. **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** Do not accept the defaults for production workloads. Make special efforts to create a solid Network Policy and minimal pod service accounts. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Praetorian loves what GKE does for container orchestration. Our initial application used Google App Engine Flex exclusively. Now as we demand more flexibility and control we will incorporate GKE. The new "Cloud Run" feature looks great. ### 3. GKE for a healthcare startup **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The most helpful part about Kubernetes is administrative part. The cluster creation to upgradation is very smooth. Additionally the graphical user interface is simplistic and appealing. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I see no downsides in using Google Kubernetes Engine. The only thing missing I guess an automated yaml deployment generator which is the need of the hour. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Achieving zero downtime in upgrade for an application micro service. ### 4. Easy Setup **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Kubernetes ease my life with removing application dependencies issue is simply awesome. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Everything is in place. I would only say must think a little bit about the pricing schemes. **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** Worth use it. Very smooth. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It did not work much but ya much easier to set up dependency intensive applications. ### 5. GKE is definitely the most mature kubernetes product among cloud providers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** It has a great UI and intuitive integration with the kubernetes dashboard. Furthermore, adding users to clusters is definitely a lot easier than the AWS solution. The integration with Stackdriver is also awesome - great to have all my logs in one place like that **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Their support is less than helpful - AWS and Azure both have much better support. It has gotten better, but Google's support is definitely the worst. **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** Definitely read on k8s documentation before using it - it will assume a level of understanding of kubernetes. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** A managed kubernetes service is essential to my job - having to not think about the kubernetes side of things is a huge benefit ### 6. Devops exp with gke **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Seemless integration with docker and wel mentained documentation **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Trouble integrating with other cloud aws **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to automate few usecase and used to acheive devops as a service ### 7. It runs itself **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe S. | Technical Lead, Infrastructure, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The best thing about GKE is how it takes care of recovering all of the little issues that can happen in your cluster, whether they're in the control plane or even at the node level. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I would like to be able to spin up GKE clusters with multiple node pools more quickly to help with on demand test environments. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We run our platform on top of kubernetes in multiple clouds, so GKE allows us to largely ignore operational concerns in GCP and focus on where we have real problems. ### 8. GKE Makes Kubernetes Adoption Automatic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** GKE is really managed entirely by Google. This reduces the toil overhead for system administrators as well as allowing developers to remain focused on delivering app features. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The cost of GKE is higher than the cost of running Kubernetes on some other platforms. It would be great if Google offered a lower entry level tier for individuals or small startups to help adopt what really is the easiest to use, hosted, Kubernetes platform. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing on GKE, and Kubernetes in general, has increased the speed of product iteration by several orders of magnitude. This has allowed us to more rapidly break apart our monolithic application in to more manageable services more quickly than if we had to use traditional development environments. ### 9. Really easy K8s setup **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Fully integrated in GCP, doesn't require to be a K8s expert **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** You are forced to use only specific releases **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implementation on GCP, no need to take care about instances provisioning ### 10. Easily the best experience getting Kubernetes up and running. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin S. | Owner, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** GKE is a great first-class interface over Kubernetes management, from the gcloud CLI to the Console UI. Deployment is such a snap. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I'd like an easier time retrieving detailed Kubernetes metrics from built-in functionality. I believe there's a StackDriver custom metrics server, but it would be great if that wasn't required. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We build a product that integrates with Kubernetes. The benefits for us come in the form of ease-of-integration. Again, it has been a pleasure working with GKE in this regard. ### 11. GKE Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Just spin up the app without worrying about how to scale it, level of details that can be seen within the pods and containers. Container orchestration is the most amazing feature of GKE and its inbuilt with Google cloud. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Sometimes Google cloud outages causes massive pod failures and containers restarts that fails multiple downstream services dependent on those failed pods. Looking forward for better availability of Google cloud. Etcd datastore is very conservative. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Services that takes heavy load during peak hours and we don't have to worry about maintaining the infrastructure/machines on which those services run. We can focus on main business logic now without worrying about static host configuration like on-prem. ### 12. GKE is a great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** GKE is very easy to get started for day 1 usage. It is very easy to create a cluster and start operating against it, even with limited k8s knowledge. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Upgrading node pools is a very slow process, especially for large-ish node pools. **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** If you are looking for a managed Kubernetes offering, this is the best in class. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use GKE as a new platform for deployment/operation of microservices, rather than managing infrastructure and config with traditional config management services. It has allowed us to very easily have new services with CI/CD, without our Ops team having to stand up specific infrastructure and configure it to support multiple services with different dependencies. ### 13. Journey to Devops **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Blessing E. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I like the split of resources, customization and flexible management. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I think this whole line of technology is new and needs more easier to understand and shorter resource for study that at least send home one point at a time. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling and Deployments. Scaling with kubernetes has been really easy and manageable and also we have been able to more easily deploy. Reducing time to production and manpower. ### 14. GKE simplifies everything about kubernetes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William M. | William Marcantel, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I like how GKE simplifies kubernetes and makes it friendly and usable for developers who have some understanding of kubernetes. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I don't like that it feels difficult to drill down and customize some parts of kubernetes. **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** Have an understanding of kubernets before using GKE. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running a kubernetes cluster in GCP. We were able to get it up and running very quickly. ### 15. Relatively painless migration to Managed Orchestration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** We were able to use orchestrated containers with our other GCP instances without a lot of hassle. Seamless backend network integration made it easy and secure. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** We had some issues with getting our ingress strategy figured out and a few reliability issues with HA proxy based ingress, but switching to NGINX based dealt with most of that. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped us automate deployment and upgrade of our product, letting us spin up development and test environments much more easily and not worry about tearing them down when they are no longer needed. ### 16. GKE makes deploying and managing applications easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** GKE makes deploying and managing applications easy. We use a Terraform provider & GitOps config managements to upgrade our deployments in a matter of minutes. Rolling updates ensure our newest product can seamlessly be rolled out to our customer base without downtime. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** GKE does not span GCP regions. Multi-zone masters within a single region are the equivalent of HA, but don't really solve the geo-redundancy needs in order to support 99.999% uptime for regional network failures; instead we had to rollout a custom solution. **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** multi-region masters **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** HA deployment of microservices ### 17. GKE making strides **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** leveraging the GCP experience to get customers to deploy on prem GKE solution seems to be a no brainer. Google has done a good job (again) to explain a complex technology in simple terms **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** A few years behind competitors. Interacting with GKE using Google Cloud Shell is really cool. Deploying containers into the registry and from there on any containerized platform is simple. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are motivated to keep highly confidential data on-prem instead on the cloud. With the ability to get the excess capacity and less sensitive data to GCP. ### 18. Great tool for Infra Modernization and CI/CD pipeline **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chandershekhar J. | Practice Evangelist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** One of the most famous and useful tool for building IAC, Management of containers. Been using with a lot of customers at HCL. Easy GUI and options backed by google has to be the best part **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Not much to dislike in this product so far **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Digital transformations, Building CI/CD pipelines ### 19. Manage you container without hassle **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nico N. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Fully managed Kubernestes service without any overhead to maintain **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Quite complex for first time user, maybe need a little bit more onboarding / tutorial **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It make us iterate faster, and avoid problem because of auto healing feature, we can assure that we have running container ### 20. Good product but customer support can be better. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ashish a. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** This puts Kubernetes into the hands of more people, but there are some scenarios where support could have been better. E.g Updating ca certs installed on vm instances. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Using gcp service accounts in a multi-tenant/multi project environment is tricky. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running all production workload. ### 21. Seamless **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arshdeep Singh C. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The ease of node upgrades and the auto-scaling **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The complexity of setting up a load balancer **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making it the base of the new age platform we are devloping ### 22. Solid choice for container management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I like using GKE because you have multiple options in deploying and editing containers, with either the console or command line tools. It makes managing infrastructure in a team very convenient. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** GKE initially was difficult to use because of the firewall rules we had to learn. Likewise sometimes pods will not restart on their own. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** GKE has helped us better automate our infrastructure workflow. ### 23. Takes away the headaches **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** It's so much easier to use a managed solution than having to do this all on my own. It saves time and lets me focus on solving the fun business problem **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I don't really have anything negative to say. Sorry? **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Like I said above, I can focus on the problems I am trying to solve and spend less time managing the infrastructure ### 24. Easy deployment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** GKE provided us easy deployment capabilities in our stage and demo environments. Its integration with Docker helped achieving CICD, scalability and quick feedback on our regression tests. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** As such nothing, but if it can have a UI configuration management, would be helpful for more users. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helped us achieve quick deployment, scalability and CI in our stage and demo. Less dependency on devops. ### 25. Kubernetes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonas V. | Software Enginees, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** How easy it is to deploy new services and to expose them on internet **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Documentation is at the time not good enough **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster deployes ### 26. GKE Makes Learning Kubernetes Easy! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I wanted to get started learning Kubernetes and GKE made it so easy. From the GCP console I was able to easily create a kuberenetes cluster and learn how to develop and deploy an application on kubernetes. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I was not sure how easy it would be to port the application to another cloud. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Make it easier to deploy container applications to another cloud. ### 27. Easy access to a Kubernetes cluster **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** GKE console gives me the quickest way to setup a Kubernetes cluster. I specifically like console ssh access through a web browser. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** - It is expensive to use. - Using persistant disks is a bit of a hassle. Figuring out where the disks are attached at what device path is a bit difficult **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it for personal work. ### 28. Up and Running in No Time **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Its really easy to setup, install and deploy. We could literally get a Kubernetes cluster setup and deployed in no time. Kubernetes engine provides the solid foundation to run production instances. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Setting up Monitoring and Logging could be easier, the setup and learning curve for that is quite steep. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running production systems at scale, deployments and updates are easy. ### 29. Give the basic to be faster **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Easy of deployment, give a rapid development / production ready environment to improve the basics of microservices and APIs **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Single Region... but it's solve using more products... **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** Before use any container platform, there must be a good design of networking, backing services and security. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast delivery of new business features., auto scale our products without avoid customers complaint. ### 30. Running apps in GKE containers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Containerize my workloads and ran multiple apps in a shared GKE cluster which saved 50% of computing cost and provided faster deployment cycle. The best thing is integration with ISTIO. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** No downside to GKE. I love the product and will be using in near future **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** Provided single pane of control for on-prem instnaces. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster product deployments ### 31. GKE is Easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Recently did a multicloud demo with Rancher. It was very easy to provision a GKE cluster and it ended up being the easiest Kubernetes Cloud Solution. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I dont have anything bad to say. It was very easy to setup. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing customers to choose where they want their workloads and allowing them to leverage google AI. ### 32. GKE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason B. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The flexibility and control GKE affords me. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** still experience downtime when scaling up **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** managing our application scaling issues ### 33. Excellent scalability and usability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Both scalability and usability are impressive. We have this hooked into our CI/CD so it's super easy to add new services. Scalability enabled our systems to meet customer needs during Cyber Monday. Impressive. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Cross cloud not supported, until now with Anthos. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalability and flexibility. We are moving fast and supporting massive workload with low effort. ### 34. Containers on GKE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** How easy it is to mange and get your containers on to GKE **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** learning curve for developer that are not use to developing container based applications. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Migration our existing workload on the cloud. Refactoring the current application that are build on traditional architecture and creating microservices that can be containerized and deployed on to GKE. ### 35. Amazing experience with Google Kubernetes Engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The best thing about Google Kubernetes Engine is the simplicity with which the workloads can be run instantly on the Kubernetes Cluster. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** There is nothing specific that I dislike about GKE. If I had to choose one, I'd say the pricing. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are currently in the testing phase. We haven't deployed in production. ### 36. GKE Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** GKE makes it very easy to provision a Kubernetes cluster from scratch. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I do not like how long it takes for some of the resources take to provision. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm trying to spin up out of the box instances for CI systems such as Jenkins, GKE makes it very easy to do so. ### 37. kubernetes, the best way **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** That Google was a pioneer in the Kubernetes field. And now, they sell the automation that makes them one of the best. It's beautiful how GKE manages nodes autoscaling, as well as the auto upgrade. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Currently haven't found something I dislike **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maximize the usage of cloud resources, making more with less. ### 38. We are starting to put workloads on GKE, our goal is to deploy our on prem application into GCP **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Ease of management and reduced operational overhead (patch mgmt etc). Application / service view and integrated stackdriver / logging / monitoring **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Have not used it enough to get feedback on what the dislikes are **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are moving an on prem application workload onto GCP, with refactoring apps from traditional apps to containerized ### 39. Interested in learning more **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** So far still learning but from what I can see getting up and running is simple and intuitive. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** At this point I don't think I have any dislikes only need to learn more about how I can implement and configure. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Learning about recommendations for deployment of our software for customer deployments ### 40. high-performing, flexible infrastructure that unlocks maximum efficiency **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandipan B. | Digital Marketing Specialist, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Hybrid Networking Docker Image Support Security and Compliance Stateful Application Support Integrated Logging & Monitoring Fully Managed OS Built for Containers Auto Scale, Auto Upgrade, Auto Repair Workload Portability, on-premises and cloud Private Container Registry **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** A definite advantage of Kubernetes is its vast and rapid appropriation by many devops. It means that you can find lots of best practice examples posted by a huge community of users who regularly contribute to Kube knowledge. Kubernetes works with Kube-specific commands and tools, so naturally, you’ve got to spend some time to sort it out, but it’s worth it. **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** If you are ready to fiddle with configuration a bit and enjoy fully customizable functionality, I’d go with Kubernetes. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kubernetes Engine runs on Container-Optimized OS, a hardened OS built and managed by Google. Kubernetes allows you to specify how much CPU and memory (RAM) each Container needs, which is used to better organize workloads within your cluster. ### 41. Best Integrated Solution for Kubernetes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** GKE has an easy to use interface for creating and managing your Kubernetes cluster. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** First time navigation can be challenging. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** For deploying and managing environments like production, staging dev etc. Bringing up application on demand and tearing down when not needed. ### 42. Beginner Review of Kubernetes Engine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The best part of the product is its simplicity and speed. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The interface can be a little cumbersome as it includes items you do not often use. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am reviewing methods to scale and simplify administration for 24/7 system. ### 43. GKE review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Its easy to scale deployment of containers with very little code **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Nothing really, its easy enough. Maybe the documentation could be better? **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has removed a lot of manual work and changed the way we deploy containers ### 44. Great Hybrid product in the making.. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Great approach to building a hybrid cloud product that is expected to solve some real world problems for our clients today.. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Maybe roadmap needs to be met with aggressive timelines.. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Container management, container orchestration and multiple others.. ### 45. Google Kubernetes Engine was a great choice for us! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The auto-scaling clusters and ease of deployment. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** There is a bit of learning curve but the GCP documentation is great. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily support our growing business without having to constantly upgrade and maintain our server farm. ### 46. Kubernets-definately! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjay Haresh K. | Software Engineering Intern, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Fault tolerance - It does a lot of things under the hood to handle failure. Managing configurations - It is super easy to manage all the configurations, test them, edit them and this makes it very suitable for integrating services. Service discovery - Automated internal DNS and service discovery make shipping service discoveries very very easy. Single point of trust - All state is defiened using a distributed key value database. This state is represented using JSON format. This state is fully exposed using an API and server and can only be changed using this service. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Time taken for error detection - It takes more time to deploy automated fixes to bugs. Illegible logging - A lot of logs are not understandable, difficult to decipher and filled with way too much unuseful information. It's not easy to learn. Intensive training is required to be of a working capability. It takes months of learning and support from Google to understand how Kubernetes works. **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** It is very suitable if you're managing microservices, need service discovery and autoscale and config management then kubernetes is the tool for you. A service can be published, and all your infrastructure can be made to react to this change, load balancers, DNS servers, monitoring, create database, everything can just be monitoring the state in the API server and reconfigure themselves automatically when needed, no more need of coordinating the distribution of more configuration. This is very powerful. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing microservices, service discovery, auto-scale and config management. ### 47. Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Soporte C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Easy to use, and happy for the on-prem offering that it was just anouched in Google Cloud 18. help teams focus on their core product without worrying about where to run it. meaning that infrastructure ha always been a pain for a small company. with this product, we do not have to care. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** no dis-likes at this point from GKE . Great product **Recommendations to others considering Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE):** For those that want to host on-prem GKE, it will be create if there is an offering that includes Google's Hardware, so we as end users would not have to deal with other provider, and not reaching HA standards Google's product offers. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** increases productivity and help teams focus on their core product without worrying about where to run it. ### 48. k8s upgrade and maintenance automated **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Automated upgrade and rollback including builtin monitoring. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Lack of visibility into master work and ability to try out alpha features in existing cluster. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Few engineers to be oncall. GKE lowes oncall burden ### 49. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** The flexibility and agility of the using the Kubernetes. Easy to use and cost effective rather than using VM's. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** I do not have anything negative. My experience has been positive. **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reducing cost. ### 50. Potent, potentially world changing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Seamless integration between on-prem and Google Cloud. Easy to use and bundled components such as loadbalancing and authentication management. **What do you dislike about Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)?** Transparency in underlying interactions between offsite/onsite components that are "proprietary." **What problems is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating kubernetes firmwide. ## 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=3&qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+15%3A16%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=cde39b7e-5b70-422b-8704-a6661a29e422&secure%5Btoken%5D=2ce8a9911905c17d0bfac14d752276f4179897aa4fd2c01e960f2a88b0f7af46&format=llm_user) ## Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Integrations - [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)