Google Container Engine vs Rancher Labs comparison

Google and Rancher Labs are both solutions in the Container Management category. Google is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.0, while Rancher Labs is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.8. Google holds a 0.3% mindshare in CM, compared to Rancher Labs’s 8.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Rancher Labs users who would recommend it.

Google Container Engine

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Google Container Engine

Ranking in Container Management

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Containers as a Service (CaaS) (3rd)

Rancher Labs

Ranking in Container Management

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Storage for Kubernetes (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Google Container Engine is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rancher Labs is 8.2%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Hoang Do

DevOps Engineer at The Digital Group Inc

Has autoscaling features that helps to save costs

We use the solution to deploy microservices. The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs. Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products. I have been using the product for two years. I rate the product's…

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RyanVassallo

Head of Systems and Infrastructure at Booming Games

Offers an open-source version along with a good UI

The product has multiple good features. One of the solution's good features is that it is the GitOps functionality known as Rancher fleet, which is used for continuous delivery. The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or on-premises, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations. The tool also has a feature that is still kind of maturing, but I think it has very good potential. This new feature is named Harvester, which is allows users to have virtual machines managed by Kubernetes engine. This is very new technology in the market. I think that Harvester needs to mature as a product, and I think that in the future, it will be very powerful. You have one tool that does many things for you.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."

"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."

"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."

"The product is simple to use for a beginner."

"The customized deployment process is the most valuable feature in Rancher Labs."

"The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment."

"The scalability potential is very good."

"A great UI with very good integrations."

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Cons

"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."

"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."

"I can't migrate to the newer version."

"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."

"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."

"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."

"While Rancher Labs provides some level of security, it's not considered very robust."

"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's pricing is medium."

"The pricing of the solution sits in the mid range, not high and not low. It has a fixed price that you pay every month."

"There is an annual subscription. The price of the solution should be cheaper and have better pricing flexibility."

"There are no hidden charges attached to the product unless a user opts for the premium support offered by the solution."

"Although Rancher Labs is an open-source solution, they also offer a paid version, where you buy the support when needed."

"The solution is free and open source but there is a fee for support."

"The cost is reasonable since it's open source. Rancher effectively addresses container orchestration trends, especially for those with some Kubernetes knowledge."

"This is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs involved."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Container Engine?

The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Container Engine?

The tool's pricing is medium.

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What needs improvement with Google Container Engine?

Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products.

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What do you like most about Rancher Labs?

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rancher Labs?

The cost is reasonable since it's open-source. Rancher effectively addresses container orchestration trends, especially for those with some Kubernetes knowledge.

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What needs improvement with Rancher Labs?

While Rancher Labs provides some level of security, it's not considered very robust. We found it to offer basic security features, which met some of our requirements, but we also relied on other op...

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Overview

Google Container Engine is a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system for running your Docker containers. Container Engine schedules your containers into the cluster and manages them automatically based on requirements you define (such as CPU and memory). It's built on the open source Kubernetes system, giving you the flexibility to take advantage of on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure.

Rancher Labs build innovative, open source software that makes it easy to deploy and manage containers in production on any infrastructure. We enable organizations to accelerate all aspects of their software development pipeline, from writing and testing code to running complex microservices-based applications.

Rancher, our flagship container management platform, allows users to easily manage all aspects of running containers in development and production environments, on any infrastructure. With well over four million downloads, Rancher has quickly become the tools of choice for teams serious about running containers in production. This includes large enterprises such as Sony, IBM, Tyco, Align Technologies and more.

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