However their biggest weakness is the overall alpha/beta stage of many APIs and the lack of managed services. AWS, especially with these recent announcements, has so many managed services that you can get started building your business product quicker than anywhere else, even if the offerings and billing are more complex.
GCP does have some things like Spanner and BigQuery that are unmatched though.
What about GKE, if EKS makes you want to jump to AWS?
Azure comes close but GCP is very far behind. What's there is nice and well designed, but leaves a lot of gaps to fill in.
The only thing I'd use GCP for today is bigquery. For everything else I'd rather use AWS.
Is the equivalent to CloudFormation on GCP supposed to be Deployment Manager? Would you mind elaborating what could have been done better?
I work closely with them so I can at least relay the feedback. If it's easy enough maybe I'll even get to help since I am interested in working on that project =D
The GKE auth thing is so bad to the point we had to roll back from using service accounts to using normal API keys because there was nowhere in stack driver to add a service account key file. So the choice was either lose all our endpoint monitoring or just switch to API keys. When I opened a support ticket about this the support guy seemed incompetent. He literally couldn't understand what I was saying despite repeating myself 3 times in a way I struggled to make any clearer. It wasn't worth the hassle.
I'm running a gRPC/REST service on GKE with Endpoints and to add a new credential I needed to add the key to the service.yml file and update the endpoint. There's no way that scales. I can't wait to use AWS IAM for this instead. We had to backtrack and give out API keys instead of having anything better.
Follow this tutorial for what I was trying to do before going back to just normal API keys: https://cloud.google.com/endpoints/docs/grpc/authenticating-...
It's like GCP services weren't designed to work with each other. Just a hodgepodge of services that are fine if you can run CLI commands, but as soon as you want to get an ops team involved who want to do everything through a UI you're screwed.
Oh, and I can't tell you how frustrating it is for the k8s alpha clusters to just vanish on you. I'm a big boy. Let me decide when I want to kill an alpha cluster because, you know, I might know better than whichever engineer put that 30 day limit in.
Sorry for the rant, but as you can imagine I'm done with GCP and can't wait to head back to AWS land.
Nonsense, the feedback is much appreciated! Thanks for taking the time!
I work on data processing & analytics at Google Cloud. Really glad to know you love BQ. :)
I’d not go back, your mileage may vary.
Been using GKE for over a year now. No issues at all.
Did the entire cluster just stopped working or the kubernetes api server on master?