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Google Cloud Run vs Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud Run
Ranking in Container Management
14th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
2.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Containers as a Service (CaaS) (5th)
Rafay Kubernetes Operations...
Ranking in Container Management
20th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Vyas Shubham - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Quality Analyst at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Serverless containers have transformed how we deploy microservices and event-driven workloads
There are a few areas that could be improved. We have experienced cold start latency because when scaling from zero, the first request is slow. It also impacts user experience for real-time applications. The improvement we require is faster cold starts or smarter pre-warming options. There are also limitations with long-running workloads. It is not ideal for very long or always-running processes, and request timeouts are somewhat restrictive. The improvement we want is better support for persistent workloads without workarounds. We have also identified improvements needed in debugging and observability complexity because logs and monitoring are available, but they feel scattered at times, and debugging distributed microservices is harder. The improvement we require is more unified and developer-friendly debugging tools.
Prashant Aghao - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate System Engineer at Dhanyaayai enterprise private limited
Centralized control has streamlined multi‑cluster management and automated application deployments
The best features of Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform are the centralized multi-cluster management, built-in RBAC policy for managing role-based access control, cluster lifecycle management, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud support, and centralized monitoring. Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform's RBAC policy helps my team by giving each user specific roles for managing the cluster, which makes RBAC integration easier and ensures that users do not have access to all clusters, thereby increasing security. The multi-cloud support stands out for me as it supports different cloud environments on a single platform, including Azure, AWS, and GCP clusters, which helps me manage clusters working on different platforms.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Google Cloud Run has positively impacted our organization by saving us five thousand dollars per month based on scheduling our infrastructure from nine p.m. to nine a.m. for shutdown and starting, as well as stopping the MongoDB clusters."
"Google Cloud Run and the Google Cloud environment positively impact my organization by providing almost 99.9% availability for applications, which instills confidence in the organization and users by reducing the dependency on the physical network and allowing access to applications and data."
"Google Cloud Run is a very good tool that I use for deploying applications; its ease of deployment, auto scaling features, and resource optimization are very nice features that help individuals deploy their apps and solutions into the cloud without any hiccups."
"Google Cloud Run has positively impacted my organization in numerous ways, such as significant cost efficiency and reduced overhead since we only pay for the resources that we use."
"Google Cloud Run has impacted my organization positively through faster deployment and development, where developers can deploy applications quickly without worrying about infrastructure, push the app live with just containers, speed up time to market significantly, launch features faster and iterate more often, pay only when code runs without maintaining idle servers, reduce cloud costs dramatically for applications with low or unpredictable traffic, automatically scale based on traffic spikes to handle sudden loads without manual intervention so our business does not lose users during peak hours, and let developers focus on business logic instead of DevOps."
"I have seen a return on investment, with key benefits including fast deployment cycles, improvement in security and management, reduced downtime, and improved time spent on cluster management."
"Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform has positively impacted our organization by increasing overall productivity as a team because we are a big team with many people working on Kubernetes clusters on different public clouds."
 

Cons

"When it starts from idle to full run, it scales slowly, causing slowness in the service deployed; sometimes some of the APIs fail to respond."
"There are a few areas where Google Cloud Run could improve."
"There are a few areas that could be improved. We have experienced cold start latency because when scaling from zero, the first request is slow."
"If speaking about improvements for Google Cloud Run, I think they could reduce the cold starts and manage to configure a set number of minimum instances to keep the instances in a warm phase."
"One area where Google Cloud Run could be better is the cold start; when a container scales, it starts from zero and takes a moment to boot up before it can serve the request."
"From a normal point of view, most things are good with Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform, but I think there is a bit of a learning curve for new users unfamiliar with the platform, as it sometimes takes time to understand what exactly we are doing there and how everything works."
"Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform should have lower licensing costs for smaller organizations like mine, and it could integrate third-party tools as well."
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Large Enterprise3
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Google Cloud Run?
If speaking about improvements for Google Cloud Run, I think they could reduce the cold starts and manage to configure a set number of minimum instances to keep the instances in a warm phase. Addit...
What is your primary use case for Google Cloud Run?
In my day-to-day work, I use Google Cloud Run for managing and running cluster and containerized applications on the Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Console. I have created multiple application...
What advice do you have for others considering Google Cloud Run?
If any organization has a lot of load on their Google Kubernetes Engine or on Google Cloud, they can easily switch to Google Cloud Run and should start using it because it will help them in many wa...
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Also Known As

Google Cloud Functions, Google Run, GCF
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