The target audience for Google Container Engine is wondering about security and interoperability

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Summary: Google wants to show the enterprise world that it can trust it when it comes to container technology. But if you want to give its new container engine a test run, you won’t be able to use it on other public clouds.

credit: Jonathan Vanian/Gigaom

Google’s announcement of its new Google Container Engine, a managed service version of its open-sourced Kubernetes container-management system, shows that the search giant believes it can lure new customers to its cloud through its container expertise. But, it’s clear from talking to various attendees at Google’s Cloud Platform event that while many people are interested in an enterprise-version of Kubernetes, questions of container security, ease of use on different cloud platforms and stability need to be ironed out before folks are ready to sign up.

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