在App Engine标准和Kubernetes（容器引擎）之间选择

Question

We are going to start an open source project on GitHub.

We are going to use Microservices Architecture for this and the language for this is going to use is Java

And we are going to use Google Cloud endpoints v2 in java for all these services.

There are almost 12 services which work together to make a big API.

Every service serves its own API which is created in cloud endpoints but some services need to communicate with each other to function properly.

We have one problem we are not able to decide which fit best for this situation for this. AppEngine standard or Khubernetes(Container Engine) ?

We take many presentations of Google Cloud Platform about deciding this but not able to decide. Can you please let me know which is good for this and why. This project is going for a long time.

Answer 1

If your application runs in containers I would probably go for Kubernetes but the decission might vary based on your use-case.

If you are not afraid of handling your infrastructure and you want to define your own resources, rules etc., then Kubernetes offers more flexibility. You can pretty much define the whole application stack in one YAML file and in case Google Cloud Platform turns out not to be the best solution for you, you can easily spin the Kubernetes cluster elsewhere.

AppEngine is basically PaaS solution focused on application development where you delegate most of the infrastructure decisions to Google. You can get the application running and scaling with minimum fuss.

One of the other aspects to consider is also the pricing. Take a look at GCP price calculator . It might turn out that Kubernetes is significantly cheaper in case you have multiple services (you can all run them in a single cluster as opposed to getting billed per GAE application).