Google Kubernetes Engine
Similar to Cloud Run, GKE is also a managed environment where you can run your applications, and like Cloud Run, we will dive deeper into the workings of GKE in subsequent chapters. But for now, we'll just understand GKE and how it fits into the cloud-native app development pipeline.
GKE provides developers with a managed environment where they can deploy and manage all of their containerized applications. Here, it is important to make a clear distinction between Cloud Run and GKE.
Both of these solutions help developers achieve the same goal – deploy and manage containerized applications – but Cloud Run is a fully managed service and will take care of a lot of things, making deployment faster and easier. Kubernetes, on the other hand, is an orchestration platform that provides far more flexibility and configuration options, allowing you to take control of everything.
Therefore, the platform you choose depends on how much control...