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DigitalOcean Kubernetes vs. Rafay

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DigitalOcean Kubernetes
Score 9.0 out of 10
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DigitalOcean's Managed Kubernetes is designed for simple and cost effective container orchestration.N/A
Rafay
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
The Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is a turnkey offering that automates Kubernetes cluster management, modern application deployment and operations at scale, from Rafay Systems in Sunnyvale. The platform enables development, operations and site reliability engineering teams to govern, manage and monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters and distros, and operating applications in Kubernetes environments running on-premise, in the cloud or at the Edge. Rafay is designed to accelerate platform…N/A
Pricing
DigitalOcean KubernetesRafay
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean KubernetesRafay
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
DigitalOcean KubernetesRafay
Top Pros
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Best Alternatives
DigitalOcean KubernetesRafay
Small Businesses
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.3 out of 10
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 9.2 out of 10
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 9.2 out of 10
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
DigitalOcean KubernetesRafay
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
DigitalOcean KubernetesRafay
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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Rafay Systems, Inc
Rafay is well suited for managing K8 deployments in on-prem deployments as well as AWS. Their support for GKE seems a bit limited.
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Pros
DigitalOcean
  • Hosted dashboard
  • Hosted container registry
  • Horizontal auto-scaling
  • LetsEncrypt SSL termination
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Rafay Systems, Inc
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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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Rafay Systems, Inc
  • Seamless Single Sign-On Integration
  • Use of a jumpstation to bootstrap a new EKS cluster deployment
  • Some information in the UI does not auto populate
  • UI can be enhanced a bit
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Usability
DigitalOcean
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Rafay Systems, Inc
So far our experience with using Rafay's platform has been very positive.
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Support Rating
DigitalOcean
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Rafay Systems, Inc
I have dealt with a lot of support organizations and am really glad to say that Rafay goes above and beyond expectations when it comes to supporting our teams.
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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.
CO
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Rafay Systems, Inc
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
DigitalOcean
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Rafay Systems, Inc
No, we are very satisfied with the contract terms and pricing model and hope it does not change in the future.
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Anonymous
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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
CO
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Rafay Systems, Inc
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