Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

What do you like best?

The thing I like the most about GKE is its ease of use. GKE provides the perfect balance between abstraction and having the ability to control some of the important Kubernetes related configurations to its users. The inbuilt cluster autoscaler, out of the box monitoring for the cluster and the ease with which you can build and attach multiple nodepools to your cluster are some of the most useful features that make GKE stand out from other managed kubernetes service providers.

What do you dislike?

Although the pros heavily outweigh the cons, the thing which GKE could improve more upon is the support and serviceability it provides to it's customers using relatively older Kuberenetes versions.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We have made our entire application stack run on Kubernetes and in all major public clouds, GCP being one of them. So we've had first hand experience in using Managed Kubernetes Services provided by all major public clouds and the ease and pace with which we were able to bring up and teardown new Kubernetes clusters using GKE during our POC was a lot compared to other clouds. We didn't have to worry about having to deploy our own cluster autoscaler as GKE provided it out of the box and for every single nodepool we had created. The cpu and memory based monitoring for pods provided by GKE helped us a lot in our POC for running our application on Kubernetes.