What's the difference between Kubernetes and Kubernetes Engine?

Question

As far as I know, Kubernetes is an orchestration framework to deploy and manage containers. On the other hand, Kubernetes Engine is responsible for scaling clusters up and down, and also to manage container images.

From looking at the above, they both seem to be the same thing or very similar. From the above definitions, they seem to be practically the same thing. What are there differences?

Answer 1

• Kubernetes: The container orchestration tool that can be run on a Linux and now a Windows server too.

• Kubernetes Engine: Name given by cloud providers like GCP (GKE), AWS (EKS), and Azure (AKS) to their fully manager Kubernetes service.

The main difference here is that the cloud providers manage the main aspects of your Kubernetes clusters, such as installing it, scaling the nodes, displaying pods running on their cloud console, provide monitoring, etc.