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We performed a comparison between Google Kubernetes Engine and Tigera based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Fully Google ecosystem integrated, saves valuable time, and rapid deployment
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  • "We are planning to use external support, and hire a commercial partner for it."
  • "This is an open source solution, so there is no pricing or licensing."
  • "Currently, it costs around $1000 per month which sorted our deployment. So once we get more clients, having a huge suffix, costs can go up."
  • "I would rate Kubernetes' pricing four out of five."
  • "The price for Google Kubernetes Engine could be lower - I'd rate its pricing at three out of five."
  • "It is competitive, and it is not expensive. It is almost competitive with AWS and the rest of the cloud solutions. We are spending around 3K USD per month. There are four projects that are currently running, and each one is incurring a cost of around 3K USD."
  • "The pricing for GKE is dependent on the type of machine or virtual machine (VM) that is selected for the nodes in the cluster. There is a degree of flexibility in choosing the specifications of the machine, such as the number of CPUs, GPUs, and so on. Google provides a variety of options, allowing the user to create the desired cluster composition. However, the cost can be quite steep when it comes to regional clusters, which are necessary for high availability and failover. This redundancy is crucial for businesses and is required to handle an increase in requests in case of any issues in one region, such as jumping to a different region in case of a failure in the Toronto region. While it may be tempting to choose the cheapest type of machines, this may result in a limited capacity and user numbers, requiring over-provisioning to handle additional requests, such as those for a web application."
  • "Its pricing is good. They bill us only per user. That's nice."

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    What do you like most about Google Kubernetes Engine?
    Top Answer:The product has no downtime.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Kubernetes...
    Top Answer:Pricing is always a concern. We keep running the service, and we need to pay for it. I rate the pricing a seven or eight out of ten.
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    What needs improvement with Google Kubernetes Engine?
    Top Answer:The notifications are not informative. It's a little confusing at times.
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    9th
    out of 26 in Container Management
    Views
    1,701
    Comparisons
    1,329
    Reviews
    24
    Average Words per Review
    472
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    8.0
    33rd
    out of 59 in Container Security
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    260
    Comparisons
    231
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    Also Known As
    GKE
    Tigera Canal
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    Overview

    Kubernetes Engine is a managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications. It brings our latest innovations in developer productivity, resource efficiency, automated operations, and open source flexibility to accelerate your time to market.

    Tigera is solving the networking and security problems inherent in deploying and enforcing policy in large private, public, and hybrid enterprise clouds. Tigera’s founders combine extensive networking and security experience with a track record of engagement with the cloud native, open source developer and user communities. With this as a starting point, Tigera has worked with those communities to create Canal, the combination and refinement of two existing cloud networking solutions – Project Calico and Flannel.

    Canal provides a software-based networking solution with built-in secure, fine-grained policy control. Canal is targeted at enterprises that are embracing the cloud native model for private, public and hybrid cloud deployments. The Tigera team originated and maintains Project Calico, and is collaborating with CoreOS to maintain Flannel and integrate it with Calico under the Canal umbrella.
    Tigera is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors.

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    Philips Lighting, Alpha Vertex, GroupBy, BQ
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    Financial Services Firm25%
    Energy/Utilities Company13%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Manufacturing Company13%
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    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Insurance Company10%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Small Business46%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise40%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise72%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Google Kubernetes Engine is ranked 9th in Container Management with 32 reviews while Tigera is ranked 33rd in Container Security. Google Kubernetes Engine is rated 8.0, while Tigera is rated 0.0. 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, Google Kubernetes Engine is most compared with Linode, Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform and Rancher Labs, whereas Tigera is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Illumio and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks.

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