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Azure Container Apps vs Google Kubernetes Engine comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Container Apps
Ranking in Container Management
22nd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Google Kubernetes Engine
Ranking in Container Management
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Mario Rodríguez Hernández - PeerSpot reviewer
Arquitecto De Soluciones at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Modernization has accelerated cloud migration and now delivers resilient, flexible microservices
I consider the best features offered by Azure Container Apps to be power, event-based scaling, and ease of management. The power of event-based scaling and the ease of management have benefited my team and my projects by allowing the applications to be very flexible since they can scale based on process queue sizes or HTTP requests and for many other reasons such as entries in a Redis cache. Azure Container Apps has positively impacted my organization by making the migration of these applications easier, speeding up these migration processes and achieving greater resilience of the applications in the cloud. I have measured that impact in terms of improvements in resilience, which are very important because we move to having microservices deployed in several availability zones, with autoscaling, and as a result, they are very flexible and very reliable.
Parthasarathy T - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Associate Dev Ops at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Managed solutions enable efficient handling of web applications and migration projects
Google Kubernetes Engine can be improved by enabling the in-place upgrade of the machine type of an existing node pool since I currently need to destroy and recreate it. There is no feature present where I can upgrade directly, and having more than 1,000 to 2,000 workloads in one node pool makes changing the node pool name difficult for all those workloads. I choose eight out of ten mainly because of the node pool upgrade challenge I mentioned, but also because of the existence of Anthos service mesh, which is the ingress controller available only for the enterprise Kubernetes Engine. It would be beneficial if it could be offered in the normal Kubernetes Engine with any limitations.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Azure Container Apps has positively impacted my organization by making the migration of these applications easier, speeding up these migration processes and achieving greater resilience of the applications in the cloud."
"Stability-wise, this solution is really good."
"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."
"I rate Google Kubernetes Engine a ten out of ten."
"The most beneficial feature is the ability to separate each project and manage permissions more effectively."
"Google Kubernetes Engine's most valuable features are microservices and its acquisition rate, which is very useful for scaling perspective."
"The most valuable feature of Google Kubernetes Engine is how you can automatically scale and load balance."
"It is easy to use and deploy."
"Google Kubernetes Engine's most valuable feature is container deployment."
 

Cons

"Azure Container Apps could be improved if the Azure RM Terraform provider could have full implementation of all its capabilities since right now it does not."
"I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten."
"The product's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There is room for improvement in the cluster updates process. Specifically, when managing both non-production and production clusters, we need a sequential functionality."
"Our critique is that we have to do too much work to get the cluster production-ready."
"I think that security is an important point, and there should be additional features for the evaluation of data in containers that will create a more secure environment for usage in multi-parent models."
"The notifications are not informative."
"I have created a couple of issues with Google tech support, and I am not satisfied with the assistance I received."
"Google Kubernetes Engine's cost should be improved because it is high."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I would rate Kubernetes' pricing four 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."
"Its pricing is good. They bill us only per user. That's nice."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."
"I rate the product's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price. The product is competitively priced."
"Initially, Google Kubernetes Engine was a little bit cheaper, but now its prices have been increased compared to the pricing model and the features that are made available by its competitors."
"We are planning to use external support, and hire a commercial partner for it."
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Financial Services Firm
21%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

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Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise16
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Kubernetes Engine?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Google Kubernetes Engine is straightforward, as I previously indicated. The need for humans is reduced with GCP since there is no need for ...
What needs improvement with Google Kubernetes Engine?
The price could be a bit cheaper. I don't see anything with Google Kubernetes Engine that needs to be improved. I think they are already implementing Kubernetes itself, so they are the owners. Howe...
What is your primary use case for Google Kubernetes Engine?
I use Google Kubernetes Engine for many purposes, most notably for websites, but the websites are microservices. However, some mega projects have many machines that needed to be containerized, so w...
 

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GKE, Google Kubernetes
 

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