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Google Kubernetes Engine vs OpenShift: What are the differences?
Developers describe Google Kubernetes Engine as "Deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on Kubernetes, powered by Google Cloud". Container Engine takes care of provisioning and maintaining the underlying virtual machine cluster, scaling your application, and operational logistics like logging, monitoring, and health management. On the other hand, OpenShift is detailed as "Red Hat's free Platform as a Service (PaaS) for hosting Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Node.js, and Perl apps". OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
Google Kubernetes Engine can be classified as a tool in the "Containers as a Service" category, while OpenShift is grouped under "Platform as a Service".
Some of the features offered by Google Kubernetes Engine are:
- Docker support - Improve the predictability of your deployments with Docker containers. Containers make it easy to deploy applications across environments.
- Better ops - Give ops a better system, starting with a managed compute cluster. Container Engine takes care of provisioning and maintaining the underlying virtual machines and operational logistics like logging, monitoring, and health management.
- Declarative management - Use declarative syntax to define your application requirements. Container Engine will actively manage your application, ensuring your containers are running and scheduling additional as needed.
On the other hand, OpenShift provides the following key features:
- Built-in support for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java (the standard in today's Enterprise)
- OpenShift is extensible with a customizable cartridge functionality that allows developers to add any other language they wish. We've seen everything from Clojure to Cobol running on OpenShift.
- OpenShift supports frameworks ranging from Spring, to Rails, to Play
"Powered by kubernetes" is the top reason why over 15 developers like Google Kubernetes Engine, while over 95 developers mention "Good free plan" as the leading cause for choosing OpenShift.
OpenShift is an open source tool with 913 GitHub stars and 561 GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenShift's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Google Kubernetes Engine has a broader approval, being mentioned in 248 company stacks & 252 developers stacks; compared to OpenShift, which is listed in 76 company stacks and 358 developer stacks.
Pros of Google Kubernetes Engine
- Backed by Google17
- Powered by kubernetes17
- Docker12
- Scalable11
- Open source6
- Command line interface is intuitive2
- Decoupled app2
- Provisioning1
- Declarative management1
Pros of Red Hat OpenShift
- Good free plan98
- Open Source62
- Easy setup46
- Nodejs support42
- Well documented41
- Custom domains32
- Mongodb support28
- Clean and simple architecture27
- PHP support25
- Customizable environments21
- Ability to run CRON jobs11
- Easier than Heroku for a WordPress blog9
- Autoscaling7
- Good balance between Heroku and AWS for flexibility7
- Easy deployment7
- PostgreSQL support6
- Free, Easy Setup, Lot of Gear or D.I.Y Gear5
- Shell access to gears4
- High Security3
- Great Support3
- Its free and offer custom domain usage2
- Logging & Metrics2
- Meteor support2
- Overly complicated and over engineered in majority of e2
- Golang support2
- Secure2
- Because it is easy to manage2
- No credit card needed1
- MultiCloud1
- Runs Anywhere - AWS, GCP, Azure1
- This is the only free one among the three as of today1
- Great free plan with excellent support1
- Autoscaling at a good price point1
- Easy setup and great customer support1
- Cloud Agnostic1
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Cons of Google Kubernetes Engine
Cons of Red Hat OpenShift
- Decisions are made for you, limiting your options2
- License cost2
- Behind, sometimes severely, the upstreams1
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