Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

Likelihood to Recommend

At one instance, there was a fire in our data center and the backup power had some issues because of which the whole DC went down. I believe with AKS and the replication it's easier to handle such a situation. Also, the scenario would have been pretty transparent to the end-users.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Entertainment Company, 1001-5000 employees

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OpenShift is well suited if you want to use docker and [Kubernetes] but you want to hide the complexity of these two technologies. It gives a developer much more freedom in terms of code deployment, builds process, and implementation. One of its strengths is scaling and you can easily configure it for each application.

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Lavish Garg

Cyber Security and Blockchain Blogger

WitQuakeE-Learning, 51-200 employees

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Pros

Highly repeatable process
Minimizes the amount of software to install
Easily scale resources to meet demand

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Manager in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Implementing and integration platform to move infrastructure from on-premise hardware to the cloud[.]
Establishes a robust network and an updated infrastructure to develop intelligent and integrated services[.]
Makes internal development easier and faster and improves data access to developers[.]

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Stuart Anderson

Head of Innovation & IT Infrastructure

NanoString Technologies, Inc.Biotechnology, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Need to update cluster manually
Policies cannot be updated for existing components
if any change in policy every has to create cluster

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Better API integration with a wider eco system
CLI, UI and API could be better in terms of usability
More security feature for east and west traffic, proxy and load balancing

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Support Rating

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 9.0

Based on 2 answers

Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours.

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Mounika Chirasani

Software Engineer

JDA SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 7.0

Based on 2 answers

I think response time for IBM Cloud support should be improved.

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Gonzalo Angeleri

Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager

GRUPO DATCOInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

The ability to create new instances (i.e. elastic provisioning) is probably the fastest with Azure Kubernetes Service compared to the alternatives that I have looked at. From a pricing perspective, Microsoft always seems to find a way to be more competitive in this area, and literally every other field they play in.

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Scott Kennedy

Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing

Franklin SportsSporting Goods, 201-500 employees

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We are using IBM Cloud App ID as a simple method to get an OIDC provider for our applications, that are running within the OpenShift cluster. Also, IBM Cloud Object Storage is used within the workload to store data via an s3 compliant way. The IBM Cloud Container Registry is an easy way to store the container images, that are used within the OpenShift cluster. Especially we configured the system in such a way to stop the image delivery if the container images are vulnerable. IBMs Cloud Pak for Integration and Business Automation is providing a rich feature set, that is tackling a lot of use-cases. They are both installable in the provided cluster easily.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Positive impact in moving applications to cloud from the in-hose data center to save cost
Sometimes got affected with some bugs on the AKS infrastructure but hasn't caused a big kios as our production footprint in AKS is not yet high

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Administrator in Information Technology

Entertainment Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Helped us migrate on perm apps to cloud
Provided easy to use dev experience for devs without kube experience
Provided a secure rbac solution for many different teams running workloads on the same cluster

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Engineer in Information Technology

Investment Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud