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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DigitalOcean Kubernetes

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean's Managed Kubernetes is designed for simple and cost effective container orchestration.N/A

    Helm

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AHelm is an open source Kubernetes package manager.N/A
    Pricing
    DigitalOcean KubernetesHelm
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DigitalOcean KubernetesHelm
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Best Alternatives
    DigitalOcean KubernetesHelm
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Docker
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Docker
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DigitalOcean KubernetesHelm
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DigitalOcean KubernetesHelm
    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.
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    Open Source
    If you need to automate the deployment of environments in Kubernetes and these environments should be easily replicable in other regions of your cloud provider or even in other cloud providers, then this is the tool for you. Just be prepared for a certain degree of complexity when creating the charts.
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    Pros
    DigitalOcean
    • Hosted dashboard
    • Hosted container registry
    • Horizontal auto-scaling
    • LetsEncrypt SSL termination
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    Open Source
    • Templates - The ability to create templates is really helpful and help creates a baseline for package management.
    • Rollbacks - it is godsend. Period.
    • Dry-run - This really is helpful when troubleshooting deployments and is great for testing out new charts as well.
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    Cons
    DigitalOcean
    • Option for internal VPC-only deployment
    • Better integration with cloud firewall
    • Better integration with DO App platform via VPC
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    Open Source
    • concurrent deployments
    • templating values files
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    Support Rating
    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    We didn't really need support, but the open-source community seemed responsive and informative when it came to issues. Many cloud native consultancy companies (including ourselves) offer support for Helm.
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    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.
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    Open Source
    We have a natural trending to use what is a reference in its space and Helm has being leader in its area for a long time. Since it has all features we need didn't make sense to us to invest time on researching and testing other alternatives, so Helm was our first and only tool in regards of automating deployments on Kubernetes
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    Return on Investment
    DigitalOcean
    • Excellent uptime
    • Low cost for provided value
    • Good integration with the rest of the DO platform to provide additional value
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    Open Source
    • Reduction in human effort.
    • Streamline software versions and upgrades.
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