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Best-in-market managed Kubernetes solution
June 06, 2022

Best-in-market managed Kubernetes solution

Nic Georgakopoulos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Kubernetes Engine

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Easy to use Kubernetes cluster.
  • Feature rich (istio/monitoring/logging).
  • Easy to upgrade and keep it up to date.
We had to engage support a couple of times and their response was always quick and the engineers dealing with our case very well trained and knowledgeable about the product.

Do you think Google Kubernetes Engine delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Google Kubernetes Engine's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Kubernetes Engine live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Kubernetes Engine go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Kubernetes Engine again?

Yes

GKE has nice integrations with other GCP services like monitoring, logging, node pools autoscaling.
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.