On Thursday, Google LLC announced that GKE Enterprise, its managed Kubernetes service, would be generally available next week.

The service was first previewed by Google about two months ago as a solution to reduce the amount of effort required to run containerized environments.

“We’re introducing here at KubeCon the new evolution of Kubernetes, which we call GKE Enterprise,” said Bobby Allen (pictured, right), cloud therapist at Google. “This is about what I call having the right kind of CAS, containers-as-a-service not confusion-as-a-service. Let’s make sure we are adding the right kind of features that customers need without unnecessary complexity. That’s really what this is about.”

Allen spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Savannah Peterson and Dustin Kirkland at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by Snehal Patel (left), director of product management, Google Kubernetes Engine, at Google, and they discussed how the latest GKE service will improve use of Kubernetes for enterprise clients. (* Disclosure below.)

Increasing velocity for deployment

GKE, known as Google Kubernetes Engine, is a managed Kubernetes service unveiled by the company nearly 10 years ago. It automatically adds or deletes hardware resources based on changing workload requirements. GKE Enterprise provides the ability to run multiple Kubernetes clusters side by side, which is often a need in large organizations.

“We are looking to help our customers and the industry overall increase velocity for development and deployment,” Patel said. “Customers will be able to create multiple teams, help them onboard very quickly through self-service capabilities. We have platform-layer security, Kubernetes-layer security and now workload-layer security, all built in, integrated by default.”

The new service includes a managed service mesh designed to streamline the task of monitoring data flows between containers and spotting technical issues.

“When I have these executive conversations, they want to balance innovation and operations,” Allen said. “Help me do the cool stuff, but help me not go broke in the process. We want to maximize innovation and minimize unintended consequences.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA:

(* Disclosure: Google Cloud sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Google nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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