For companies that have taken advantage of containers to run, develop, test, and deploy their applications, Google Cloud offers the Google container engine. The container format supported is Docker. It provides options to manage the containers, perform scaling, and automate deployments using the open source Kubernetes container orchestration system. Google Cloud also provides a container registry service to store private Docker images for your team to use. Container-based development, testing, and deployment is now becoming a de facto for agile development projects.

Compared to App engine, applications running on Container engine have fewer restrictions in terms of storage, performance, and using third-party libraries.