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 is easy to use and deploy."
"It's easy to manage and deploy. It's the best."
"The most valuable feature of Google Kubernetes Engine is how you can automatically scale and load balance."
"We used automation for the initial setup. It was okay. So it wasn't too complex."
"The initial setup is very easy. We can create our cluster using the command line, or using our console."
"I am impressed with the product's output scaling."
"Google Kubernetes Engine is used for orchestrating Docker containers. We have 30 or 40 customers working with this solution now. We'll probably see 10 to 15 percent growth in the number of customers using Google Kubernetes Engine in the future."
"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."
"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."
"It has helped to minimize the risk and scale services at large in virtually no time."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"I very much like the support that you get, and I think that it's excellent."
"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."
"Linode offers cost-effective pricing, and it enables me to swiftly deploy my services."
"The fact that you can do any Linux distribution is great. You can try out any Linux distribution, even some of the more obscure ones, and they are always keeping them up-to-date. As soon as a new distribution comes out, it is on the platform pretty much the same day, which I find really helpful."
"The most valuable feature is that they are flexible and easy to get ahold of if I need something."
"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."
"I would like to see the ability to create multiple notebook configurations."
"The product's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The pricing could be more competitive. It should be cheaper."
"The monitoring part requires some serious improvements in Google Kubernetes Engine, as it does not have very good monitoring consoles."
"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."
"Google Kubernetes Engine is less stable in some highly complex deployments with many nodes."
"One of the things I missed a bit is the visibility and availability of solutions. If I compare it to a different solution, it is a bit behind."
"Right now, they don't have multiple data centers. They have limited data centers. I am currently using the Singapore and Mumbai data centers, but I am looking for data centers in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. They need to improve the availability of their data centers and partnership engagements with cloud Panda solution providers, like us."
"They could have more international servers. There are certain places throughout Europe and Eastern Europe which are very open to doing a lot of technology business, such as Romania. Romania is very open to technology. At other service providers, I have stuff in Romania. I think there are some Eastern European locations that would be more open to it. So, if they could have more European points of presence, that would be more helpful."
"Everything is up-to-date for a small business. But for big business, they need to improve certain things. For example, there should be better security."
"It would be nice if they had more data centers in Latin America."
"The product must improve its security."
"The network between different servers isn't very good. I have to install additional solutions to link the servers with each other."
"I'm not sure what could be improved at Linode since they're likely already making enhancements, especially with the Akamai acquisition and, I don't have any specific suggestions as I haven't encountered any major issues. I might consider using API for managing DNS records, but overall, I'm satisfied with Linode."
"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."
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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