what are the differences between Google compute engine and Google container engine?

Question

I was wondering what are the differences between Container Engine & Compute Engine?

If I have a Jax~rs application on host which done by Groovy and Jetty, and planning to to migrate to Google cloud platform ,shoud I start for Google container or google compute?

Answer 1

Google Compute Engine It is based on Virtual Machine.

Google Container Engine It is based on Docker.

Compute engine will be easy as working on linux machine but for container you need to know how docker works and there are some use cases for docker.

You should start with Google Compute but if you are interested in experiments then go with Container engine.