Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is Google Cloud Platform's (GCP) premier managed Kubernetes service, facilitating the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications using Google's infrastructure. Capitalizing on the power of Kubernetes, GKE abstracts complex cluster management tasks, ensuring developers and DevOps teams can focus on building resilient and scalable applications. With features like automatic upgrades, node auto-repair, and native integrations with GCP services, GKE stands as a robust, enterprise-ready solution for businesses aiming to harness the potential of container orchestration in a cloud-native environment.
Orchestration systems decide where and when workloads run on a cluster of machines (physical or virtual). On top of that, orchestration systems usually help manage the lifecycle of the workloads running on them. Nowadays, these systems are usually used to orchestrate containers, with the most popular one being Kubernetes.
There are many advantages to using Orchestration tools: