We performed a comparison between Google Kubernetes Engine and Rancher Labs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Container Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I am impressed with the product's output scaling."
"I am satisfied with the stability offered by the solution."
"Before using this solution, it was a lot of manual tasks and a lot of people participated in the process."
"The solution is more user-friendly than AWS or Azure. I can also easily scale out the service in the future when the number of customers grows. GKE is the leader of Kubernetes service and it can be easily updated. I love the tool's user interfaces."
"The solution simplified deployment, making it more automated. Previously, Docker required manual configuration, often done by developers on their computers. However, with Google Kubernetes Engine, automation extends to configuration, deployment, scalability, and viability, primarily originating from Docker rather than Kubernetes. Its most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"The product has no downtime."
"It is easy to use and deploy."
"The logs are important for detecting problems in our clusters."
"The product is simple to use for a beginner."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations."
"Our critique is that we have to do too much work to get the cluster production-ready."
"While the GKE cluster is secure, application-level security is an essential aspect that needs to be addressed. The security provided by GKE includes the security of communication between nodes within the cluster and the basic features of Kubernetes security. However, these features may not be sufficient for the security needs of an enterprise. Additional security measures must be added to ensure adequate protection. It has become a common practice to deploy security tools within a Kubernetes cluster. It would be ideal if these tools were included as part of the package, as this is a standard requirement in the industry. Thus, application-level security should be integrated into GKE for improved security measures."
"I would like the solution to integrate with another Kubernetes product. I would also like it to monitor other platforms. It needs to also include scale-up container in the tool's next release."
"We would like to see some improvement in the ease of integration with this solution."
"The monitoring part requires some serious improvements in Google Kubernetes Engine, as it does not have very good monitoring consoles."
"The tool's configuration features need improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the cluster updates process. Specifically, when managing both non-production and production clusters, we need a sequential functionality."
"The product's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."
"While Rancher Labs provides some level of security, it's not considered very robust."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
Google Kubernetes Engine is ranked 9th in Container Management with 32 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 14 reviews. Google Kubernetes Engine is rated 8.0, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Kubernetes Engine writes "The auto-scaling feature helps during peak hours, but the support is not great". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Google Kubernetes Engine is most compared with Linode, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control and Amazon Elastic Container Service, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Docker, Amazon EKS and Portainer. See our Google Kubernetes Engine vs. Rancher Labs report.
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