Easy for those already on the Google Cloud platform
August 28, 2019
Easy for those already on the Google Cloud platform
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine is being used by our I.T. Department as part of its Cloud Infrastructure. At this time we have decided on Google Kubernetes Engine as our primary tool for Kubernetes and are running test/evaluation workloads with it. The idea is to drive down our cloud infrastructure costs by moving resources off general-purpose cloud environments.
- Simple setup for new users
- Easy integration with existing Google Cloud environments
- Cost effective
- 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
- Reduced cloud computing costs.
- Easier management of applications.
- Extra time investment to learn how to setup applications in Google versus Amazon.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE), Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services
Our organization went with Google's Kubernetes Engine because we are already significantly invested in the Google Cloud Platform. In our evaluation of Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service we were turned off by recent concerns about Amazon becoming overly dominant in the cloud computing sphere and as a result its long-term viability. Google Kubernetes Engine was just a natural move forward for us and easy to use.