Product Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS) OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS) Scaleway Kapsule Digitalocean Kubernetes (DOKS) Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) IONOS Kubernetes Service Civo Kube100 Gridscale Managed Kubernetes (GSK) Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) Symbiosis Kubernetes on Packet Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) MetaKube Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE) F5 XC AppStack
1. General info (status: needs help) (status: needs help) (status: in progress)
Link https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine https://aws.amazon.com/eks/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kubernetes-service/ https://www.ibm.com/cloud/container-service/ https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/public-cloud/kubernetes https://www.scaleway.com/en/kubernetes-kapsule/ https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/ https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/kubernetes https://cloud.ionos.com/managed/kubernetes https://www.civo.com/kube100 https://gridscale.io/en/products/kubernetes/ https://www.linode.com/docs/kubernetes/ https://symbiosis.host https://www.packet.com/solutions/kubernetes/ https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/container-engine-kubernetes.html https://metakube.syseleven.de/ https://www.vultr.com/kubernetes/ https://docs.cloud.f5.com/docs/services/app-stack
Release Notes GKE release notes Amazon EKS Kubernetes versions https://github.com/Azure/AKS/releases Kubernetes version information https://github.com/ovh/public-cloud-roadmap/projects/1 Kubernetes version support policy DigitalOcean Kubernetes Supported Releases Release notes (aliyun.com) https://gridscale.io/en/release-notes/ Release Notes | Documentation (syseleven.de) https://www.vultr.com/docs/vultr-kubernetes-engine-changelog https://docs.cloud.f5.com/docs/changelog/saas-rel-notes
2. Supported versions
1.28 ✔️
1.27 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️
1.26 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
1.25 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
1.24 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✖︎
1.23 Comparison of Kubernetes managed services ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️
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3. Quotas Leave a comment or drop us a line at research@learnk8s.io
Max number of clusters per region 50/zone + 50 regional clusters 100 (can be increased on request) 1000 (maximum number of clusters per account) 100 20 (can be increased on request) Unlimited Needs help 2000 Unlimited 99 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 1 to Unlimited: based on tier
Max nodes per cluster License: 15000 13500 1000 500 100 500 512 5000 5000 99 32 126 1000 3 Controller & 97 Worker/per AZ
Max nodes per node pool Apache 2.0 1000 450 100 500 100 500 512 2000 100 99 N/A 100 Unlimited
Max node pools Last updated: No documented 30 10 500 100 500 Needs help 360 500 1 Not supported 126 Unlimited
Max pods per Node June 18, 2023 256 250 250 250 100 110 per default (configurable per pool) 110 256 100 100 110 110 100 150
Max pods per cluster 150,000 Not documented Not documented Not documented Not documented Not documented 3300 450-15000
Max containers per cluster 300,000 Not documented Not documented Not documented Not documented Not documented Not documented
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4. Price https://learnk8s.io/research
Control plane 10 cents per hour per control plane 10 cents per hour per control plane Default - Free Uptime SLA-10 cents per cluster per hour Free Free Free Free Uptime SLA-9 cents per cluster per hour Free（Optional） Free Free Free Free Free Free Multi Tier: Free, Individual, Team, Organization
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5. Upgrades and maintainance
Control plane upgrades Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Patch upgrades - Automatic Major/Minor upgrades - Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic Automatic Automatic Automatic Automatic Automatic
Worker nodes upgrades Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic Patch upgrades - Automatic Major/Minor - Manual Automatic + Manual Automatic Automatic Manual & Automatic (optional)
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6. Nodes
Operating system Container Optimised OS, Ubuntu, Windows Server Amazon Linux 2 Ubuntu Bottlerocket Windows Ubuntu Windows Server Ubuntu Ubuntu Ubuntu 20.04 Debian 9 Alibaba Cloud Linux 3/2, ContanerOS, Windows Server and Bring-Your-Own-OS Ubuntu Ubuntu Ubuntu Debian Ubuntu Debian 9 Container Optimized OS; CentOS 7
Container runtime Containerd (default from 1.19) Docker (deprecated) Docker Containerd (from 1.19) Docker (before 1.19) containerd Containerd Docker, containerd, CRI-O Docker Containerd, docker containerd containerd Docker Docker Containerd Containerd Containerd
Serverless containers GKE Autopilot AWS Fargate Azure Virtual Nodes ✖︎ ✖︎ In Beta state Alibaba Cloud ASK/ECI ✖︎ ✔️
Managed nodes ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️
Sandbox gVisor Not available Not available Not available Small D2-4 and D2-8 VMs gVisor, Kata Containers Not available Alibaba Cloud Sandboxed-Container (Based on Kata) Not available Not available ✖︎ Not Available Not Available Not Available Virtual Kubernetes / vk8s
Bare metal nodes support ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ In private preview / To be released ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ��︎ ✔️
GPU nodes ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️
TPU nodes ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ Needs help ✖︎ ✖︎ Needs help ✖︎ Needs help ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️
Node Auto-repair ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Needs help ✔️ ✖︎ Needs help ✖︎ Needs help ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️
Custom Kubelet arguments ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Not documented ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎
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7. Networking
Container Networking Native GKE CNI, Cilium, Calico Amazon VPC CNI (official support) Cilium, Calico, Weave Net, Antrea Kubenet, Azure CNI Calico Calico Cilium, Calico, WeaveNet, Flannel Cilium ACK Terway, Flannel Calico Flannel Flannel Calico Cilium Calico Native
Multi-cluster networking ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ Possible via vRack ✖︎ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️
Service mesh Anthos, Istio (Beta) AWS AppMesh, Istio Istio, Linkered, Consul Istio Self managed ✖︎ Istio, ASM (Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh) ✖︎ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️
L4 load balancing ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Classic and VPC clusters ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
L7 load balancing ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ VPC Clusters only ✔️ Nginx, Traefik ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ Nginx ✔️
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8. Autoscaling
Cluster Autoscaling ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ Needs help ✔️ Needs help To be released ✔️ ✔️
Autoscaling Profile Balanced, Optimize Utilization Balanced, Optimize Utilization Balanced, Optimize Utilization ✖︎ ✖︎ Cluster Autoscaler options Balanced, Optimize Utilization ✖︎ ✖︎
Vertical Pod Autoscaling ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️
Horizontal Pod Autoscaling ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✖︎ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
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9.Security
Secrets Encrypted at rest with Cloud KMS Encrypted at rest with AWS KMS Encrypted at rest with Azure KMS (KeyVault) Encrypted at rest with IBM Key Protect Kubernetes Secrets Kubernetes Secrets Encrypted at rest Encrypted at rest with Alibaba Cloud KMS Encrypted at rest Not encrypted at rest Encrypted at rest Encrypted at rest Not encrypted at rest Encrypted at rest Blindfold
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