Engine Yard vs. IBM Cloud Managed Istio vs. Podman.io

It is best for rapidly getting your application to the cloud without worrying about standing up cloud infrastructure

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Clearly, the [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] tool is very useful when you have multiple services and each service is connecting with other services through APIs in different networks. To manage this type of complex network, [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] is very useful. It comes with a license that can increase the billing of your project so make sure if your application network mesh, monitoring cannot be managed on your own then you can use it. If your application is not very complex then you have many tools available like Grafana, Prometheus, Sumo Logic, which you can integrate individually with your cluster and implement. In this type of scenario, it is better to not use [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] and it will serve your purpose as well.

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While it always depends on your use case, I believe security concerns of need for root user is a concern, so it is worth considering daemonless container service over Docker, which works just as good and has support for docker compose. Another good reason is the licensing for enterprise usage, which podman has no restrictions for. It’s also a great choice for OpenShift integration, which is seamless and works well with Rancher as well.

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• Quick deployments
• Easily integrate your code from GitHub
• Ability to recover site quickly to different zone when AWS has a widespread outage

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• Layers transparently onto existing applications
• Allows control of access and rules to be developed
• Creates metrics for usage

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• It’s daemonless, so somewhat more secure.
• It works exceptionally well and is compatible with Docker compose
• Podman Desktop actually makes individual usage also pretty easy.
• It can be used as Docker alternative with almost no additional steps

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• Embracing new Amazon Web Servicess(AWS) features
• Security groups need more granularity
• Audit trails of what happens by who in environment, especially when VM is deleted

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• Some more functionalities added could improve it better.
• Better technical user guidance.

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• Podman desktop is getting more stable with each version, but does need more UX friendliness as well.
• Official support for development tools and IDEs is missing for most tools
• It works well with Kubernetes, but I wouldn’t mind additional improvements

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Ease of use

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Training and usage support available

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More closely aligns to native AWS

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Podman is Daemonless, lightweight and doesn’t charge us for commercial usage, so it’s a relief for startups. Minikube and Rancher are a bit more complex for our use cases; so we keep things simple, fast and secure with Podman that can easily be managed with Podman Desktop and other works with our docker-compose based projects without issues.

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• Positive in the sense that we can deploy new applications quickly for MVP

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• It reduced the complexity of network mesh (ingress/egress services).
• One tool with many solutions. No need to integrate monitoring tools or notification tools.
• It reduced the number of lines of YAML code.
• It reduced the number of labor hours.

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• We definitely feel more secure.
• We do not suffer from memory or cpu overuses as it uses fedora coreOS which is lightweight
• We do not have to worry about license payments for our basic usages.
• It’s open source so quick fixes imminent with maximum transparency.

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