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Google Kubernetes EngineService

Part of Google Cloud

Who uses, chose or left Google Kubernetes Engine, quoted from their own engineering posts, each with the link.

6 companies

ENPICOMCompany
Software company for immune repertoire sequencing data analysis.
liked

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has already handled everything that you reasonably might want to configure on a new K8s cluster, i.e., it comes with batteries included.

Why ENPICOM moved its platform from Google Cloud to AWS

2021-08-31·engineering.enpicom.com ↗

LiveRampCompany
Data connectivity and identity platform company.
recommended

By far the largest re-architecting we did while migrating to GCP was eliminating our on-premise Chef environment in favor of Kubernetes (via GKE), hosting images in GCR. While this was a large undertaking, it was 100% worth the time spent.

LiveRamp on re-engineering around Google Cloud after migrating its big data environment from on-premise

2019-06-12·liveramp.fr ↗

GitLabCompany
DevOps platform and open-source code collaboration company
recommended

Once the migration has taken place, we’ll continue to focus on bumping up the stability and scalability of GitLab.com, by moving our worker fleet across to Kubernetes using GKE.

Why GitLab.com moved from Azure to Google Cloud Platform

2018-06-25·about.gitlab.com ↗

MercariCompany
Japanese online marketplace and fintech company (Mercari, Merpay).
uses

The backend runs on a GraphQL server using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Gateway, which precedes the API, and Next.js also run on GKE.

Mercari Hallo's tech stack and why they chose it

2024-07-02·engineering.mercari.com ↗

AlgoliaCompany
Search and discovery API company.
uses

The back end is powered entirely by NodeJS and Typescript , hosted in GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine), Cloud SQL .

Algolia on how its Crawler runs, after migrating from Heroku to GKE

2023-03-01·algolia.com ↗

Who left or rejected it

Health tech company building virtual primary care.
disliked

the best practices of maintaining a production-grade GKE cluster are not things that a small engineering team can reasonably manage, even if Google bears the onus on the infrastructure front.

Why Curai Health moved its core stack from Google Cloud to AWS (GKE)

2022-06-19·curaihealth.com ↗

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