D2iQ Mesosphere vs IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service | TrustRadius

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Score 7.5 out of 10

Based on 8 reviews and ratings

Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 278 reviews and ratings

Pros

Deploying mesosphere and friends (e.g. marathon)
Deploying applications (e.g. Cassandra, Jenkins, Spark) on to mesosphere
Providing value add components such as velocity, and marathon-lb

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Technician in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 201-500 employees

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IBM has a strong focus on serverless and Kubernetes. This shows in the platform. Deploying containers to Kubernetes was very easy.
Deploying a Kubernetes cluster through the GUI is very easy and quick. On top of that, IBM Cloud offers a single node cluster for Free.
Container Registry is a very good product for managing container images. Integration with Kubernetes was seemless.
Portability. To transition from Google Cloud Kubernetes to IBM Cloud Kubernetes took almost no effort. We mostly use the CLI and the standard tools such as kubectl were present.

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Enterprise Architect

HanleyComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Setting up is a bit of a hassle, especially ZooKeeper state management and mesos and marathon quorum.
Occasionally, I observed some failures when deploying something onto Marathon. Logging or detailed error reporting can help.
Stale containers and inconsistent states resultant of the cluster failure are hard to solve and need a complete system restart to get it back to normal state.

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Manager in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Free Kubernetes Cluster provides 2 vCPUs 4GB RAM . I suggest to increase this quota and duration of free trial so that more PoC and demos can be done on IBM cloud. The more the developer community is comfortable with IBM Cloud Portal interface, the more popular it will become which in turn will bring more business.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 8.0

Based on 12 answers

We have our application running on a CentOS compartment on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. We have been utilizing the help since IBM Cloud initially dispatched. We liked the adaptability and versatility that IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service give us. Since we are tiny, the Kubernetes administration is just utilized at present inside my venture bunch.

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CEO & MD

Gurjartech Pvt LtdInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Usability

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 8.3

Based on 12 answers

Kubernetes is absolutely fantastic. The Kubernetes API is a great tool when it comes to automating a deployment pipeline. Deployments are not only more reliable, but also much faster, because we’re no longer dealing with VMs. Our builds and deployments have become more reliable because it’s easier to test and ship containers.

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Channel operations manager

BuzzorangesComputer Games, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 9.1

Based on 2 answers

IBM's cloud is almost infallible.

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Employee in Engineering

Computer & Network Security Company, 10,001+ employees

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Performance

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 9.1

Based on 2 answers

IBM's cloud has a site in my conuntry (MEXICO) so the network latency was almost 0

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Employee in Engineering

Computer & Network Security Company, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 7.6

Based on 5 answers

The self-guided support was solid, and there are plenty of online videos to guide first time users, but I think one area of improvement is a faster way to transfer a large quantity of files from our local machine to the cloud for storage (Aspera)

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Data scientist

NYU ITEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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Online Training

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 6.9

Based on 11 answers

Online training is really an important resource for using these tools. IBM's help center is rich in useful information and tips. Also, external guides and tutorials are available (e.g. on youtube), but I followed only IBM ones and I had no difficulties.

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PhD Candidate

University of BolognaResearch, 5001-10,000 employees

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Implementation Rating

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 7.6

Based on 6 answers

Ease of use. Very intuitive. We have been looking for a product that allows us to orchestrate our docker containers in a way where it allows us to effectively scale our applications to production. It also provides us a way of monitoring all our infrastructure in a very clear concise way.

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Channel operations manager

BuzzorangesComputer Games, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I happen to like mesosphere because it integrates well with a Jenkins based workflow, Deis is a little more Heroku like and it's not clear how to fit that model into a continuous-integration process. Kubernetes has also been criticized for being complicated.

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Technician in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 201-500 employees

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I say IKS still has a more to work, while it benefits in being an early adopter like GKE, most of these services are easier to work on when it comes to web management, something the IKS lacks and needs to improve since its release because of how well-established the management flow works on these platforms.

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Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 1.0

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IBM's CKS does not offers automatic autoscaling nor vertical scaling (automatic). Other services like Google Kubernetes Engine scales up and down very well

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Employee in Engineering

Computer & Network Security Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

I see mesosphere as having a positive impact overall on the industry trending Docker and containers in general.
Seeing how mesosphere helps and simplifies things for the developer and ops, it is definitely a game changer.
Native support of on demand scaling up and down as per the need is one of the best features.

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Manager in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Very cost effective and horizontally scalable serivces.
More predictable than spinning up new virtual servers for expansion (Charged by API).
Adaptation of all standards including Docker, MongoDB, Node-RED, allows leveraging of existing and Open Source code more reliably to reduce costs.

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IBM - unbundlED Inc. Technology Partner

IBMComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Yes

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Yes

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