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By Kasper Siig
Kubernetes is Kuburenetes-what difference does it make which cloud provider you choose? Well, quite a lot, actually. While GKE, EKS, AKS, and DOKS all conform to CNCF Kubernetes Certification standards and are each valid choices, they each have their unique advantages and disadvantages, ranging from pricing to upgrades, to node repair.
A managed Kubernetes offering means you don’t have to worry about the certificates between nodes, setting up new servers, and whatever else comes with running your Kubernetes cluster. Running in the cloud also means you get support from a giant cloud vendor, rather than only the community itself, which can help you troubleshoot your production issues faster and reduce downtime.
In this article, we’ll break down the “big four” cloud providers, giving you information on why you might want to choose one over the other for your specific use case.
Google Kubernetes Engine
GKE is the original cloud Kubernetes offering. Launched back in August 2015, only one month after the launch of Kubernetes itself, GKE provided an easy way for engineers to…
