We performed a comparison between Google Kubernetes Engine and Linode based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware and others in Container Management."It's easy to manage and deploy. It's the best."
"We hardly have a breakdown. It's been very stable."
"Stability-wise, this solution is really good."
"Google Kubernetes Engine's most valuable feature is container deployment."
"Google Kubernetes Engine's most valuable features are microservices and its acquisition rate, which is very useful for scaling perspective."
"Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) takes care of managing Kubernetes, including the main control plane. It also offers solutions for monitoring resources and handling external traffic, which is essential for us. Being a cloud-native solution, it relieves us from worrying about these operational aspects."
"Before using this solution, it was a lot of manual tasks and a lot of people participated in the process."
"The product’s dashboard is very intuitive."
"We can scale up and down as we require."
"Because of the way that their pricing model is set up, I can scale up or down the size of a customer's server very easily. It makes life very easy for me when they run out of space, need more speed or RAM, etc. I can very easily pay the difference and reboot the machine, and now I have the upgrade that I wanted. That just makes it extremely simple."
"The most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."
"The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade."
"The most valuable features are the simple scalability and ease of starting a new virtual machine."
"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"Linode has many other cloud servers across the globe."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"We would like to see some improvement in the ease of integration with this solution."
"There are some security issues, but it might just be because we are not up to speed yet as much as we should be and so we haven't found it in the documentation yet. That's why I don't want to confuse this. Still, it could be a little bit easier to understand and implement."
"The tool's configuration features need improvement."
"There is a limitation for our infrastructure. It's very complex to see in one dashboard all the components and all the behavior on performance. I am looking for some additional tools for that. If I want to check the disk or file storage, it gets complex. There should be an integrated dashboard so that we can manage everything through a single pane."
"The console for this solution could be improved because it is very limited."
"Our critique is that we have to do too much work to get the cluster production-ready."
"Their documentation is a little here and there. Sometimes, the information is not clear or updated. Their documentation should be a little bit better."
"The product could be cheaper."
"The suitability of this solution depends on the features that you need. If you're an Uber-sized company then you're probably not going to want to start using Linode. If you are a large-sized organization then you're going to want to start using one of the bigger providers that gives you the scalability and the feature set that you are probably going to be needing in the future."
"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."
"The product must improve its security."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"It would be helpful if they offered a service where they handle the Linux security."
"The only improvement in this aspect of the service which I can think of is perhaps a pool of developers who could be hired for those cases where the need goes beyond the support offered."
"They don't have role-based access control, which is problematic for us."
"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."
Google Kubernetes Engine is ranked 9th in Container Management with 32 reviews while Linode is ranked 6th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 27 reviews. Google Kubernetes Engine is rated 8.0, while Linode is rated 8.8. 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 Linode writes "Straightforward to set up, helpful support, and the Object Storage is useful for system backups". Google Kubernetes Engine is most compared with Kubernetes, Rancher Labs, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, VMware Tanzu Mission Control and Amazon Elastic Container Service, whereas Linode is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare and Amazon EKS.
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