This page shows the Google Cloud features thatare available on each of the following environments:

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) on Google Cloud
• Google Distributed Cloud (GKE on-premises):
  • On VMware
  • On bare metal
  • Google Distributed Cloud connected deployments
• GKE Multi-Cloud:
  • GKE on AWS
  • GKE on Azure
  • GKE attached clusters,which are third-party Kubernetes clusters registered to yourfleet.

This page is for Operators who define IT solutions and systemarchitecture in accordance with company strategy in coordination with keystakeholders. To learn more about common roles and example tasks that wereference in Google Cloud content, seeCommon GKEuser roles and tasks.

Enable GKE and related features

This section describes how to enable the features that are described onthis page.

Enable GKE

To enable GKE, enable the GKE API.

Enable GKE API

Enabling this API gives you access to the GKE, which includesthe following features:

• Config Sync
• Policy Controller
• Config Controller
• Migrate to Containers
• GKE Identity Service
• Cloud Logging andCloud Monitoring for GKE system components
• Security posture dashboard
• Node to node encryption
• FQDN network policies

Enable related products and features

To use the following products and features with GKE, you mustenable each of these features individually. For more information, see thefollowing links.

• Cloud Service Mesh
• Binary Authorization
• Multi Cluster Ingress

See the following pricing guides for detailed information about how theseproducts and features are billed.

• Cloud Service Mesh
• Binary Authorization
• Multi Cluster Ingress

Features available on GKE clusters on Google Cloud

To use some features, you must register the cluster to afleet.You can see which features require fleets in the following table.

A small number of features aren't supported onAutopilotclusters. These are alsoshown in the table.

Features available on clusters outside of Google Cloud

The following tables show which key Google Cloud andGKE features are available on clusters outside ofGoogle Cloud.

For more information about which versions of the featuresare supported on each environment, see theversion supportmatrix.

Plugins and load balancers

GKE clusters outside of Google Cloud use acombination of built-in GKE capabilities along withplatform-native capabilities.

Operations and management

Security and Identity

Service management

^{* For the list of attached clusters that Cloud Service Mesh supports, seeSupported platforms.}

Configuration management

^{* To install Policy Controller, AKS clusters must nothave the Azure Policy add-on.}

Application deployment

Application migration

VM management

What's next

• Version and upgrade support
• Managed Cloud Service Mesh supported features
• In-cluster Cloud Service Mesh supported features