Google Kubernetes Engine Alternatives

Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

A Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for cloud computing provided by Google. All applications hosted with Google App Engine is housed and managed in the same data centers that Google use for their product line. Google App Engine sandbox each individual instance and run them across multiple servers to achieve maximum uptime and fault tolerance.

Red Hat OpenShift is the hybrid cloud platform that contains a family of containerization software products developed by Red Hat. With OpenShift you can manage With OpenShift you can manage Kubernetes containers with full-stack automated operations to manage hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and edge deployments. Part of OpenShift is the flagship product is the OpenShift Container Platform, an on-premises platform as a service built around Docker containers orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 for short is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. EC2 is an Amazon Web Services offering that is designed to improve the way developer deploy and scale web applications.

Google Compute Engine is not just fast. It’s Google fast.

K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution by Rancher Labs intended for IoT, Edge, and cloud deployments.