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We performed a comparison between Google Container Engine and Rancher Labs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs."

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"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy.""The initial setup is simple and straightforward.""The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access.""Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool.""The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration.""The solution is stable.""The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations.""The scalability potential is very good."

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Cons
"Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products."

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"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default.""They should improve application visibility along with code visibility.""I can't migrate to the newer version.""We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated.""If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool.""One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect.""We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications.""There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "There is an annual subscription. The price of the solution should be cheaper and have better pricing flexibility."
  • "The solution is free and open source but there is a fee for support."
  • "This is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs involved."
  • "Although Rancher Labs is an open-source solution, they also offer a paid version, where you buy the support when needed."
  • "The pricing of the solution sits in the mid range, not high and not low. It has a fixed price that you pay every month."
  • "There are no hidden charges attached to the product unless a user opts for the premium support offered by the solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The tool is very powerful, scalable, and easy to manage. Its autoscaling features helped us save costs.
    Top Answer:Google Container Engine needs to be able to manage network products.
    Top Answer:The product is simple to use for a beginner.
    Top Answer:Pricing for Genesys and Rancher Labs is quite similar, and it varies depending on the specific case and the discounts negotiated from the list price. We have a term license based on a yearly… more »
    Top Answer:To implement deployments, you can initially start with yaml files instead of relying solely on the Linux command line interface. This approach could be more comfortable for users working with yaml… more »
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    Overview

    Google Container Engine is a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system for running your Docker containers. Container Engine schedules your containers into the cluster and manages them automatically based on requirements you define (such as CPU and memory). It's built on the open source Kubernetes system, giving you the flexibility to take advantage of on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure.

    Rancher Labs build innovative, open source software that makes it easy to deploy and manage containers in production on any infrastructure. We enable organizations to accelerate all aspects of their software development pipeline, from writing and testing code to running complex microservices-based applications.

    Rancher, our flagship container management platform, allows users to easily manage all aspects of running containers in development and production environments, on any infrastructure. With well over four million downloads, Rancher has quickly become the tools of choice for teams serious about running containers in production. This includes large enterprises such as Sony, IBM, Tyco, Align Technologies and more.

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    Albert Heijn, Bell, BMC, Samsung, WindStream, Johnson & Johnson
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    Financial Services Firm43%
    Pharma/Biotech Company14%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
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    Small Business46%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise46%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Google Container Engine is ranked 14th in Container Management with 1 review while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 13 reviews. Google Container Engine is rated 8.0, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Container Engine writes "Has autoscaling features that helps to save costs ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". Google Container Engine is most compared with , whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon EKS, Docker and Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE.

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