Google Kubernetes Engine Information Reviews & Insights

Score8.2 out of 10

68 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Google Kubernetes Engine are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Fast Deployment: Users have appreciated the fast deployment of new GKE clusters in comparison to other cloud providers, highlighting GCP's efficiency in this aspect. The quick deployment process has been a significant factor for users looking to set up and utilize resources promptly.

Up-to-date Kubernetes Version: Reviewers have consistently noted that GCP provides the most up-to-date Kubernetes version, positioning them ahead of competitors in terms of staying current with technology trends. This aspect has garnered positive feedback from users who value working with cutting-edge tools.

Effective Automation for Upgrades: Users found the automation for master upgrades and worker nodes pool in GKE highly effective, streamlining processes for administrators and developers. The automated upgrade system has significantly improved efficiency by reducing manual intervention and ensuring smoother operations.

Reviews

2 Reviews

Information

Best-in-market managed Kubernetes solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 6, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GKE to deploy our in-hours custom-made applications along with popular public applications like prometheus/grafana. The applications that we deploy and need to support are both stateful and stateless.

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.

Cons

Support of IPv6.
Better GitOps.
A "serverless" Kubernetes so we can install Google config connector will be really awesome.
Container-native load balancers do not support internal TCP/UDP load balancers or network load balancers.

Likelihood to Recommend

GKE is the best managed Kubernetes solution out there, it is very well suited to deploy all kinds of application loads for Dev or Production. If you need to migrate your current workload from a monolithic infrastructure or VMs towards a container solution GKE is the go-to for the best results in terms of stability and feature-rich. If you are looking to take full advantage of IPv6 then GKE might not meet your expectations. Container-native load balancers do not support internal TCP/UDP load balancers or network load balancers, functionality of container-native load balancing is currently limited to the HTTP(S) /L7 load balancers only.

Nic Georgakopoulos

DevOps in Engineering at Deloitte Digital (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Good decision with GKE

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 15, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GKE provides a seamless installation method across a whole organization. It is a fair starting point with Kubernetes technologies. Managed Kubernetes allows deploying application test pipelines for software companies with a reasonable overall price. Moreover, the number of POP helps setup quite reliable installation in a regional way.

Pros

Deployment method (single, zonal, regional).
Lifecycle management (stable, regular, rapid).
Integrated GCE services (loadbalancers).

Cons

Multi-regional deployment (better reliability).
GPU node availability.
Integrated market place.

Likelihood to Recommend

At the moment, the best-managed cluster on the market. Quick deployment with quite specific project requirements. The mesh ingress (istio) allowed the building of a quite complicated upgrade process for applications.

Lukasz Stadnik

Cloud Architect in Engineering at Cloudical (Computer Networking, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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