DigitalOcean Kubernetes vs. F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

DigitalOcean Kubernetes

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean Kubernetes	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean's Managed Kubernetes is designed for simple and cost effective container orchestration.	N/A
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	A solution to deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplified by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations.	N/A

Pricing

DigitalOcean Kubernetes

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean Kubernetes	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean Kubernetes	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Top Pros	Pro Auto scaling	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Integration with cloud	No answers on this topic

Features

DigitalOcean Kubernetes

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

Container Management

Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean Kubernetes - Ratings	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack 7.2 6 Ratings 9% below category average
Security and Isolation	00 Ratings	7.66 Ratings
Container Orchestration	00 Ratings	7.15 Ratings
Cluster Management	00 Ratings	7.15 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	00 Ratings	7.15 Ratings
Discovery Tools	00 Ratings	6.85 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	00 Ratings	7.55 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	00 Ratings	7.55 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	00 Ratings	7.05 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Kubernetes	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Small Businesses	Portainer Score 9.5 out of 10	Portainer Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Kubernetes	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	7.9 (6 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.9 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.5 (3 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.6 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Kubernetes	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Likelihood to Recommend	DigitalOcean DO Kubernetes is well-suited for: - deploying APIs - deploying workers - log collection and analysis (ie ELK stack) - deploying Helm charts and anything that can be mapped on to K8s concepts Less appropriate for anything requiring no public Internet access (ie VPC only). Less appropriate for anything requiring integration with the DO app platform via VPC, at the moment. Incentivized CO Charles Offenbacher CTO Read full review	F5 F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is quite straightforward with the UI and you can expose the features you want. This simplifies the experience for non-admins Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	DigitalOcean Hosted dashboard Hosted container registry Horizontal auto-scaling LetsEncrypt SSL termination Incentivized CO Charles Offenbacher CTO Read full review	F5 Kubernetes Cloud Ease of use Value Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	DigitalOcean Option for internal VPC-only deployment Better integration with cloud firewall Better integration with DO App platform via VPC Incentivized CO Charles Offenbacher CTO Read full review	F5 It's still a little early so the app feels foreign to our ops teams I would like to customize the UI so I can visually see if I'm in Prod or Dev based on background colors Templates are a little awkward to create Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic	F5 Wowza, keep going this direction. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic	F5 generally support is fast Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	DigitalOcean No answers on this topic	F5 F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's partner provided services are excellent Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean DigitalOcean is the most affordable and straightforward of the hosted Kubernetes options we evaluated. All features that we require are supported without an excess of complication of extraneous features. Straightforward billing is also very important for us in comparison to the Big Three cloud hosts, which have very complicated billing practices. DigitalOcean also provides a platform with very little vendor lock-in. Incentivized CO Charles Offenbacher CTO Read full review	F5 F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is much more robust and feature rich than Agile Fleet Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	DigitalOcean Excellent uptime Low cost for provided value Good integration with the rest of the DO platform to provide additional value Incentivized CO Charles Offenbacher CTO Read full review	F5 We are able to consolidate with F5, eliminating Cloudflare. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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