Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) #

GKE is a version of Managed Kubernetes version from the creators of Kubernetes. It provides a managed environment for deploying, managing, and scaling your containerized applications using Google infrastructure. The GKE environment consists of multiple machines (specifically, Compute Engine instances) grouped together to form a cluster.

GKE is highly recommended from a technical and reliability perspective. A downside is a tendency to enforce updates which leads to maintenance overhead, but otherwise great.