Google Kubernetes Engine vs Red Hat OpenShift comparison

Google and Red Hat are both solutions in the Container Management category. Google is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3, while Red Hat is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.3. Google holds a 2.2% mindshare in CM, compared to Red Hat’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

Google Kubernetes Engine

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Red Hat OpenShift

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Google Kubernetes Engine and Red Hat OpenShift based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Container Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

4.8

Google Kubernetes Engine offers cost efficiency and productivity, though additional service costs and competition may affect returns.

Sentiment score

7.4

Red Hat OpenShift boosts productivity and ROI, with improved scalability, resource utilization, and reduced costs compared to VMware.

By migrating from AWS to Google Cloud Platform, we have saved a lot of time and money.

Rafael Jose Tovar Garrido

Director at Taotesting

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With OpenShift combined with IBM Cloud App integration, I can spin an integration server in a second as compared to traditional methods, which could take days or weeks.

Mikhael Ibrahim

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Moving to OpenShift resulted in increased system stability and reduced downtime, which contributed to operational efficiency.

Jefferson Usianene

Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group

It is always advisable to get the bare minimum that you need, and then add more when necessary.

Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

3.3

User satisfaction with Google Kubernetes Engine support is mixed, with some praising efficiency and others noting delays and challenges.

Sentiment score

6.7

Red Hat OpenShift support is mixed, with praise for premium options but concerns over response times and documentation consistency.

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Red Hat's technical support is responsive and effective.

Jefferson Usianene

Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group

I have been pretty happy in the past with getting support from Red Hat.

UsmanMalik

Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Red Hat's technical support is good, and I would rate it a nine out of ten.

AbdulJaleel

Senior Technical Lead at MORO

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

5.0

Google Kubernetes Engine excels in scalability, supporting dynamic scaling for enterprises and cloud platforms, ideal for diverse applications.

Sentiment score

7.4

Red Hat OpenShift is scalable, easy to deploy, integrates well, supports thousands of users, and suits large organizations.

The autoscaling capabilities of Google Kubernetes Engine have significantly impacted our operations.

Rafael Jose Tovar Garrido

Director at Taotesting

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The on-demand provisioning of pods and auto-scaling, whether horizontal or vertical, is the best part.

UsmanMalik

Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

OpenShift's horizontal pod scaling is more effective and efficient than that used in Kubernetes, making it a superior choice for scalability.

Mikhael Ibrahim

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Red Hat OpenShift scales excellently, with a rating of ten out of ten.

Shan Ahmed

System Analyst at Freelancer

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.4

Google Kubernetes Engine is stable, with minimal downtime and consistent performance, appreciated for scalability and adaptability across environments.

Sentiment score

7.6

Red Hat OpenShift is stable and reliable, despite past issues, with high resource needs for optimal performance.

If I have 100 replicas of containers and the traffic suddenly pushes to 1,000 within a fraction of a second, the selected machine type must be fast.

Parthasarathy T

Cloud Associate DevOps at Publicis Sapient

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It provides better performance yet requires more resources compared to vanilla Kubernetes.

Mikhael Ibrahim

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I've had my cluster running for over four years.

Jefferson Usianene

Infrastructure Manager at Appzone Group

It performs well under load, providing the desired output.

Shan Ahmed

System Analyst at Freelancer

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Room For Improvement

Users suggest improvements in pricing, upgrades, interface, security, support, integration, backup, and performance visibility for Google Kubernetes Engine.

Red Hat OpenShift faces challenges in usability, security, integration, and documentation, requiring enhancements in scaling, setup, and multi-cloud support.

When looking at the web interface, it feels kind of slow due to the many features involved.

Immánuel Fodor

Product Manager at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Log observability could be made easier so someone from high school can use it without having technological expertise.

Rakesh-Tomar

Consultant at HSBC

It would be helpful if I could easily find log information in a particular namespace without needing to write certain labels.

Rafael Jose Tovar Garrido

Director at Taotesting

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Learning OpenShift requires complex infrastructure, needing vCenter integration, more advanced answers, active directory, and more expensive hardware.

Mikhael Ibrahim

Platform Engineer & Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services.

Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We should aim to include VMware-like capabilities to be competitive, especially considering cost factors.

Shan Ahmed

System Analyst at Freelancer

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Setup Cost

Google Kubernetes Engine offers usage-based pricing with flexibility, but costs may rise with robust configurations and small deployments.

Red Hat OpenShift is seen as costly, with competitive enterprise pricing but restrictive for smaller organizations; alternatives may be cheaper.

Instead, we only pay for the hardware we use, which results in cost-cutting.

Parthasarathy T

Cloud Associate DevOps at Publicis Sapient

Google is considered cheaper compared to AWS, making it suitable for smaller to medium companies concerning cost.

Immánuel Fodor

Product Manager at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

The on-demand nodes are quite expensive.

Rafael Jose Tovar Garrido

Director at Taotesting

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Initially, licensing was per CPU, with a memory cap, but the price has doubled, making it difficult to justify for clients with smaller compute needs.

AbdulJaleel

Senior Technical Lead at MORO

The pricing for Red Hat OpenShift is considered quite high.

reviewer2382555

Manager for Middleware at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Red Hat can improve on the pricing part by making it more flexible and possibly on the lower side.

UsmanMalik

Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Google Kubernetes Engine excels with auto-scaling, easy deployment, integration, security, and reduced complexity for seamless application management.

Red Hat OpenShift excels with fast CI/CD, scalability, strong security, and seamless DevOps integration for large projects.

The most valuable aspect of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is its managed nature, which significantly reduces the burden on our platform team.

Immánuel Fodor

Product Manager at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

The best advantage of Google Kubernetes Engine is that it manages Kubernetes for you, making everything related to the master nodes managed for you with automatic updating and upgrading.

Amr Ehab

Solution Architect at Rutotech

GKE is easier to understand and use than Elastic Kubernetes Service.

Rakesh-Tomar

Consultant at HSBC

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Because it was centrally managed in our company, many metrics that we had to write code for were available out of the box, including utilization, CPU utilization, memory, and similar metrics.

Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The concept of containers and scaling on demand is a feature I appreciate the most about Red Hat OpenShift.

UsmanMalik

Manager IT Infrastructure at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

A valuable feature of Red Hat OpenShift is its ability to handle increased loads by automatically adding nodes.

Shan Ahmed

System Analyst at Freelancer

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Categories and Ranking

Google Kubernetes Engine

Ranking in Container Management

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Red Hat OpenShift

Ranking in Container Management

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

PaaS Clouds (3rd), Server Virtualization Software (11th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (5th), Agile and DevOps Services (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Google Kubernetes Engine is 2.2%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift is 3.3%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Google Kubernetes Engine	2.2%
Red Hat OpenShift	3.3%
Other	94.5%

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Featured Reviews

Parthasarathy T

Cloud Associate DevOps at Publicis Sapient

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.

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Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Adopting a flexible and efficient approach with noticeable improvements in operational costs and continued challenges in job management

Currently, one of the biggest challenges we face is with services and jobs. For spawning batches, although it has crons, it is not easy to integrate with enterprise systems such as Autosys. The entire company uses Autosys, but we are not able to integrate it effectively. We need intermediate servers to run OC utility commands and initiate the cron job. We have to do a lot of modifications to ensure our batches work properly. With physical or virtual servers, even in AWS, we are able to write and manage multiple jobs. Managing batches in Red Hat OpenShift has been a significant challenge. Integrating third parties is a challenge with Red Hat OpenShift. For example, with Elasticsearch, onboarding itself was difficult, running file beats and dealing with routing issues. It is not straightforward, especially since we have some components in AWS as. AWS has many capabilities that come out of the box and are easier to work with compared to Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services. The main reason we went with Red Hat OpenShift was because it is a private cloud, and we have regulatory requirements that prevent us from using public cloud.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

27%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

26%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	21
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	15

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	41

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Kubernetes Engine?

The product has no downtime.

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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 ...

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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...

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How does OpenShift compare with Amazon AWS?

Open Shift makes managing infrastructure easy because of self-healing and automatic scaling. There is also a wonderful dashboard mechanism to alert us in case the application is over-committing or ...

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Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database...

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What do you like most about OpenShift?

OpenShift facilitates DevOps practices and improves CI/CD workflows in terms of stability compared to Jenkins.

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Comparisons

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

Docker vs Google Kubernetes Engine

Compared 12% of the time

Amazon Elastic Container Service vs Google Kubernetes Engine

Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

Amazon AWS vs Red Hat OpenShift

Compared 8% of the time

Proxmox VE vs Red Hat OpenShift

Compared 7% of the time

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs Red Hat OpenShift

Compared 5% of the time

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Red Hat OpenShift

December 2025

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Overview

Kubernetes Engine is a managed, production-ready environment for deploying containerized applications. It brings our latest innovations in developer productivity, resource efficiency, automated operations, and open source flexibility to accelerate your time to market.

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Red Hat OpenShift offers a robust, scalable platform with strong security and automation, suitable for container orchestration, application deployment, and microservices architecture.

Designed to modernize applications by transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-native environments, Red Hat OpenShift provides powerful CI/CD integration and Kubernetes compatibility. Its security features, multi-cloud support, and source-to-image functionality enhance deployment flexibility. While the GUI offers user-friendly navigation, users benefit from its cloud-agnostic nature and efficient lifecycle management. However, improvements are needed in documentation, configuration complexity, and integration with third-party platforms. Pricing and high resource demands can also be challenging for wider adoption.

What are the key features of Red Hat OpenShift?

Security: Comprehensive security features ensure safe deployments and operations.
Scalability: Auto-scaling and monitoring capabilities cater to high-demand environments.
CI/CD Integration: Seamless integration for efficient continuous deployment processes.
Cloud Compatibility: Supports multi-cloud and on-premise solutions with ease.
GUI: Simplifies platform management and enhances usability.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Improved Efficiency: Streamlined operations reduce time and resource investments.
Enhanced Flexibility: Adapt quickly to changing demands and environments.
Quick Deployment: Fast application deployment supports agile project timelines.
Robust Support: Access to dependable customer support services.

Red Hat OpenShift is strategically implemented for diverse industries focusing on container orchestration and application modernization. Organizations leverage it for migrating applications to cloud-native environments and managing CI/CD pipelines. Its functionality facilitates efficient resource management and microservices architecture adoption, supporting enterprise-level DevOps practices. Users employ it across cloud and on-premises platforms to drive performance improvements.

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Sample Customers

Philips Lighting, Alpha Vertex, GroupBy, BQ

UPS, Cathay Pacific, Hilton

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