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."Google Kubernetes Engine's most valuable feature is container deployment."
"Before using this solution, it was a lot of manual tasks and a lot of people participated in the process."
"The product has no downtime."
"We used automation for the initial setup. It was okay. So it wasn't too complex."
"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."
"GKE's plugin management and configuration sync are excellent features. The amount of data it provides is good, and I've been able to integrate it with the things I need."
"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."
"Stability is perfect for me."
"The scalability potential is very good."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment."
"The solution is stable."
"The product is simple to use for a beginner."
"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."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"I use the Firebase tool with GKE and it would be helpful if the solution can give notifications when we reach the budget limit."
"There is room for improvement in this solution. For example, auto-scaling can be complex. We expect it to be easier to set up and manage, even for our customers."
"I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten."
"t is not very stable."
"It needs to support load balancing."
"The solution does not have a visual interface."
"The product could be cheaper."
"The pricing could be more competitive. It should be cheaper."
"We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
Google Kubernetes Engine is ranked 9th in Container Management with 32 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 13 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, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform and Amazon Elastic Container Service, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS, Docker and Portainer. See our Google Kubernetes Engine vs. Rancher Labs report.
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