G2 Vendor Directory

Canonical LXC vs. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricCanonical LXC

by Canonical Ltd.

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

by Google

Overall rating4.34.5
Review count13260
Ease of use8.58.7
Ease of setup9.18.6
Quality of support8.38.4
Meets requirements9.29.1
NPS38.46153866.203704
Small Business69.2%23.2%
Mid-Market23.1%28.6%
Enterprise7.7%48.3%
Total page views31288
Total LLM citations17966

Canonical LXC

Canonical LXC by Linuxcontainers.org is a set of tools, templates, library and language bindings. It's pretty low level, very flexible and covers just about every containment feature supported by the upstream kernel.

Pros

  • Features
  • User Interface
  • Container Management
  • Simple
  • Integration
  • Flexibility

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

A scalable and automated Kubernetes service. GKE is a simple way to automatically deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Integrations
  • Setup Ease
  • Deployment Ease
  • Scalability