F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack vs. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
Score 8.2 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
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise, acquired by Mirantis in November 2019)aims to let users ship code faster. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine gives users one set of APIs and tools to deploy, manage, and observe secure-by-default, certified, batteries-included Kubernetes clusters on any infrastructure: public cloud, private cloud, or bare metal.
$500
per year per node
Pricing
F5 Distributed Cloud App StackMirantis Kubernetes Engine
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0.00
per year
Basic
$500.00
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
F5 Distributed Cloud App StackMirantis Kubernetes Engine
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThese pricing options are compatible with Linux or Windows Server and are per year, per node. The basic version requires maximum online purchase not to exceed 50 nodes. Support/professional services are not included.
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Features
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Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack
7.4
6 Ratings
8% below category average
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
-
Ratings
Security and Isolation7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Orchestration7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Cluster Management7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Discovery Tools7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery7.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging7.45 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
F5 Distributed Cloud App StackMirantis Kubernetes Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(6 ratings)
8.3
(37 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(3 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(3 ratings)
7.8
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
F5 Distributed Cloud App StackMirantis Kubernetes Engine
Likelihood to Recommend
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
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Mirantis
[Mirantis Cloud Native Suite (Docker Enterprise)] is the most advanced tool till now, which works as a VMs
and separates any single application from the dependencies. Also, this tool is
helping me in the agile development of the processes. It is strongly recommended to
almost all major organizations.
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Pros
F5
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud
  • Ease of use
  • Value
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Mirantis
  • Containers - Docker is the go-to when using Containers, which are super useful if you need an environment that works both for Windows and Linux
  • Efficiency - Docker is very lightweight and doesn't demand too much from your CPU or server
  • CI/CD - Docker is excellent for plumbing into your build pipeline. It integrates nicely, is reliable, and has an easy set up.
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Cons
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
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Mirantis
  • Containers are often opaque - if a container doesn't work out of the box, it's messy to fix.
  • Logging is complexified by the multiple containers and logs are often not piped to places you expect them to be.
  • Networking is complexified due to internal port mapping between containers, etc.
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Usability
F5
Wowza, keep going this direction.
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Mirantis
Docker's CLI has a lot of options, and they aren't all intuitive. And there are so many tools in the space (Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, etc) that have their own configuration as well. So while there is a lot to learn, most concepts transfer easily and can be learned once and applied across everything.
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Support Rating
F5
generally support is fast
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Mirantis
The community support for Docker is fantastic. There is almost always an answer for any issue I might encounter day-to-day, either on Stack Overflow, a helpful blog post, or the community Slack workspace. I've never come across a problem that I was unable to solve via some searching around in the community.
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Implementation Rating
F5
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's partner provided services are excellent
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Mirantis
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Alternatives Considered
F5
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is much more robust and feature rich than Agile Fleet
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Mirantis
We've used XAMPP, PHPmyAdmin and similar local environments (our app is on PHP). Because of how easy you can change the configuration of libraries on PHP and versions (which is SO painful on XAMPP or other friendly LAMP local servers) we are using Docker right now. Also, being sure that the environment is exactly the same makes things easier for developing.
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Return on Investment
F5
  • We are able to consolidate with F5, eliminating Cloudflare.
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Mirantis
  • Docker has made it possible for us to deploy code faster, increasing the productivity of our development teams.
  • Docker has made it possible for us to decentralize our build and release system. This means that teams can deploy on their own schedule and our dev ops team can concentrate on building better tools rather than deploying for the teams
  • Docker has allowed us to virtualize our entire development process and made it much simpler to build out new data centers. This, in turn, is significantly increasing our ROI by providing a path forward for internationalization.
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