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Compare Google App Engine and Kubernetes 
Google App Engine vs Kubernetes
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Google App Engine easier to use, set up, and administer. However, reviewers preferred doing business with Kubernetes overall.
- Reviewers felt that Kubernetes meets the needs of their business better than Google App Engine.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Kubernetes is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Kubernetes over Google App Engine.
- Extremely low barrier to entry for a PaaS-like offering - Low effort interoperation with Google Compute IaaS systems and services - Hundreds of readily available service bindings available from Google and third parties - Autoscaling (which can now be...
GAE ecosystem. Gae comes with its ecosystem and it's very easy to get attached to it. The ease of use of other services such as analytics and stack driver is great but it comes with a cost which can easily go way up. Then there are some versions of...
Kubernetes is a sweet spot between flexibility and simplicity. Especially service discovery is made very simple. Competitors often are either to simple (Docker compose, swarm, fleet) or too complex (Marathon). Once it is up and running, low-level...
It's extremely immature (very buggy), the networking is just...painful, the scheduler is dumb and slow; those are my technical dislikes. My personal dislike is the overall lack of cohesive documentation as well as the assertion that just because there...
- Extremely low barrier to entry for a PaaS-like offering - Low effort interoperation with Google Compute IaaS systems and services - Hundreds of readily available service bindings available from Google and third parties - Autoscaling (which can now be...
Kubernetes is a sweet spot between flexibility and simplicity. Especially service discovery is made very simple. Competitors often are either to simple (Docker compose, swarm, fleet) or too complex (Marathon). Once it is up and running, low-level...
GAE ecosystem. Gae comes with its ecosystem and it's very easy to get attached to it. The ease of use of other services such as analytics and stack driver is great but it comes with a cost which can easily go way up. Then there are some versions of...
It's extremely immature (very buggy), the networking is just...painful, the scheduler is dumb and slow; those are my technical dislikes. My personal dislike is the overall lack of cohesive documentation as well as the assertion that just because there...
