Google Kubernetes Engine vs. IBM Cloud Container Registry

Google Kubernetes Engine

IBM Cloud Container Registry

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Google Kubernetes Engine	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Google Kubernetes Engine supplies containerized application management powered by Kubernetes which includes Google Cloud services including load balancing, automatic scaling and upgrade, and other Google Cloud services.	$0 GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
IBM Cloud Container Registry	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	IBM Cloud Container Registry enables users to store and distribute container images, and run them in the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and other runtime environments.	N/A

Pricing

Google Kubernetes Engine

IBM Cloud Container Registry

Editions & Modules

Autopilot Mode - 3 year commitment price (USD): $0
GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
Autopilot Mode - 1 year commitment price (USD): $0.0000438
GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
Autopilot Mode - Regular Price: $0.0000548
GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
Autopilot Mode - Spot Price: $0.0000548
GKE Autopilot Ephemeral Storage Price GB-hr
Autopilot Mode - Spot Price: $0.0014767
GKE Autopilot Pod Memory Price GB-hr
Autopilot Mode - 3 year commitment price (USD): $0
GKE Autopilot Pod Memory Price GB-hr
Autopilot Mode - 1 year commitment price (USD): $0.0039380
GKE Autopilot Pod Memory Price GB-hr
Autopilot Mode - Regular Price: $0.0049225
GKE Autopilot Price GB-hr
Autopilot Mode - Spot Price: $0.0133
GKE Autopilot vCPU Price vCPU-hr
Autopilot Mode - 3 year commitment price (USD): $0.02
GKE Autopilot vCPU Price vCPU-hr
Autopilot Mode - 1 year commitment price (USD): $0.0356000
GKE Autopilot vCPU Price vCPU-hr
Autopilot Mode - Regular Price: $0.0445
vCPU Price vCPU-hr
Standard Mode: $0.10
per hour
Cluster Management: $0.10
per cluster per hour
Cluster Management: $74.40 monthly credit
per month per hour
Standard Mode - Free Version: Free
per hour

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Google Kubernetes Engine	IBM Cloud Container Registry
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Google Kubernetes Engine	IBM Cloud Container Registry

Features

Google Kubernetes Engine

IBM Cloud Container Registry

Container Management

Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
	Google Kubernetes Engine 8.6 Ratings 11% above category average	IBM Cloud Container Registry - Ratings
Security and Isolation	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Container Orchestration	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Cluster Management	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Storage Management	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Discovery Tools	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Google Kubernetes Engine	IBM Cloud Container Registry
Small Businesses	Portainer Score 9.6 out of 10	Portainer Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Google Kubernetes Engine	IBM Cloud Container Registry
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Google Kubernetes Engine	IBM Cloud Container Registry
Likelihood to Recommend	Google Kubernetes Engine is well suited for dynamic and large workloads since it can scale up with usage. It is easily configurable, which allows for flexibility. User interface is simple to navigate, which reduces roadblocks for a team with people unfamiliar with Kubernetes. Great if you are already using other GCP services as it integrates well with that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Kube service hosted in IBM Cloud. We currently use IBM container registry only with this service Incentivized Lokesh Venkatesan Senior Subject Matter Expert Read full review
Pros	Deployment of a new GKE cluster is really fast in comparison to other cloud providers. GCP is ahead other vendors and always provide the most up to date Kubernetes version. GKE automation for master upgrade and the worker nodes pool works really well. Incentivized NG Nic Georgakopoulos DevOps Read full review	Scalable Plans Easily integrate it with IBM Kube service Easy integration with IBM Cloud CI/CD tools. Incentivized Lokesh Venkatesan Senior Subject Matter Expert Read full review
Cons	Not as intuitive as it could be Documentation could be better, especially for people using other Google Cloud tools Not the preferred Kubernetes Engine for many apps Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Kubernetes CI/CD Docker Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	It's a great product if you learn it. It has flexibility and is very strong. Autoscaling and Resource management make running huge applications a breeze. Using Helm with Kubernetes and Terraform for infrastructure creation can totally automate your CICD pipeline. You also get easy access to CUDA cores for machine learning. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Google support is excellent and helpful, but the first answer is always so bureaucratic no matter how many logs, evidence, and information you sent. Incentivized Kadu Barral Tech Lead Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	We had to move several products to Google Cloud, and the Google Kubernetes Engine was the option recommended to us, so we investigated it and ran with it. Back then (2019), we were not aware of Cloud Run-provisioned K8s clusters, so our other option was a completely self-managed K8s cluster on Compute Engine VMs, which we did not have the knowledge of and capacity to handle. Incentivized Borislav Traykov DevOps Team Leader Read full review	When I need to work with private containers in a proof of concept I use IBM Cloud Container Registry. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Compared to other big K8s providers it has the best price/performance factors. Upgrade process from stable to regular versions Old stable releases: 1.15/1.16 should be in a stable branch. Incentivized LS Lukasz Stadnik Cloud Architect Read full review	reliability easy integration multicloud Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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