Google Container Engine

Google Container Engine is also known as Google Kubernetes Engine or GKE. GKE is a management and orchestration system for Docker containers, the container clusters run within Google's public cloud services, on Google Compute Engine.

Kubernetes is Google's open source container management system. Users can use the gcloud command-line interface or the Google Cloud Platform Console to interact with Google Kubernetes Engine.

The typical users of Google Kubernetes Engine are software developers. They create, deploy, and test new enterprise applications from time to time. To better meet the scalability and performance demands of enterprise applications, administrators also use containers. Kubernetes runs on a cluster of ...

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