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GKE Enterprise deployment optionsThis page shows the Google Cloud and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Enterprise edition features that are available on each of the following GKE Enterprise supported environments:
This page is for Operators who define IT solutions and system architecture in accordance with company strategy in coordination with key stakeholders. To learn more about common roles and example tasks that we reference in Google Cloud content, see Common GKE user roles and tasks.
Enabling GKE EnterpriseFollow the instructions in Enable GKE Enterprise to enable the Anthos API on your fleet host project. Enabling GKE Enterprise lets you use all the following GKE Enterprise features without incurring additional charges:
Caution: The GKE Compliance dashboard is deprecated as of January 28, 2025 and will be shut down on June 30, 2025. For more information, see Posture management deprecations.
See the GKE pricing page for more information about enterprise tier pricing. GKE Enterprise charges are applied per managed vCPU. For Standard mode GKE on Google Cloud clusters, there are no separate GKE charges. For Autopilot clusters, billing uses the Autopilot pricing model in addition to GKE Enterprise per-vCPU charges.
Pricing options for GKE on Google CloudIf you only want to use GKE on Google Cloud, you have the following options for enterprise and multi-cluster features:
You can choose to enable GKE Enterprise to have access to all GKE Enterprise features for a single per-vCPU charge, as described above.
You can choose to not enable GKE Enterprise and pay only for the enterprise features you use, in addition to the GKE charges. Only a subset of GKE Enterprise features are available to purchase separately. See the following feature pricing guides for detailed information.
See the GKE pricing page for GKE pricing at the standard tier. These GKE charges include the use of the following enterprise and multi-cluster features at no additional cost:
GKE on Google Cloud supports all GKE Enterprise features. For more general details, including the benefits of running workloads on GKE, see the GKE product overview.
Clusters on Google Cloud are enrolled in the enterprise tier on a cluster by cluster basis, and can become enterprise-tier clusters as long as GKE Enterprise is enabled in their project. To use the full range of GKE Enterprise features, however, you must also register the cluster to a fleet, though you can use a subset of enterprise features without fleets. You can see which features require fleets in the following table.
Note: Per-cluster entitlement to GKE Enterprise features was introduced in November 2024. Clusters created or registered before that date that use GKE Enterprise as part of their fleet membership are automatically enterprise-tier clusters. The only change is that you can now downgrade these clusters to the standard tier without removing them from their fleet, or remove them from the fleet without losing their enterprise entitlement. However, if you choose the latter option you will lose the ability to use fleet-enabled enterprise features.A small number of GKE Enterprise features aren't supported on Autopilot clusters. These are also shown in the table.
Feature Available on GKE standard clusters Available on Autopilot clusters Available without fleet membership Config Sync Policy Controller Config Controller Cloud Service Mesh in-cluster Managed Cloud Service Mesh Knative serving Migrate to Containers GKE Identity Service Binary Authorization Multi Cluster Ingress Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring for GKE Enterprise system components Advanced security posture and compliance monitoring Node to node encryption FQDN network policies Features available on clusters outside of Google CloudThe following tables show which key Google Cloud and GKE Enterprise features are available on clusters outside of Google Cloud.
For details about which versions of the GKE Enterprise features are supported on each environment, see the version support matrix.
Plugins and load balancersGKE Enterprise clusters outside of Google Cloud use a combination of built-in GKE Enterprise capabilities along with platform-native capabilities.
Feature GDC (VMware) GDC (bare metal) GKE on AWS GKE on Azure Attached clusters GDC (connected) Network plugin Container storage interface (CSI) & hybrid storage Bundled L4 load balancer Platform-native load balancers N/A N/A N/A Operations and management Security and Identity Service management* For the list of attached clusters that Cloud Service Mesh supports, see Supported platforms.
Configuration management* To install Policy Controller, AKS clusters must not have the Azure Policy add-on.
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Last updated 2025-08-07 UTC.
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