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Consul vs IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Consul
17 Ratings
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
32 Ratings
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Consul

17 Ratings
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Score 8.3 out of 100

Based on 17 reviews and ratings

IBM Cloud Managed Istio

32 Ratings
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Score 8.7 out of 100

Based on 32 reviews and ratings

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Feature Set Ratings

    Platform-as-a-Service

    Consul

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    7.9

    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

    79%
    IBM Cloud Managed Istio ranks higher in 11/11 features
    IBM Cloud Managed Istio ranks higher in 11/11 features

    Ease of building user interfaces

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    6.7
    67%
    5 Ratings

    Scalability

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.7
    77%
    5 Ratings

    Platform management overhead

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.5
    75%
    5 Ratings

    Workflow engine capability

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0
    80%
    5 Ratings

    Platform access control

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.3
    83%
    5 Ratings

    Services-enabled integration

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.8
    78%
    5 Ratings

    Development environment creation

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0
    80%
    5 Ratings

    Development environment replication

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0
    80%
    5 Ratings

    Issue monitoring and notification

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.2
    82%
    5 Ratings

    Issue recovery

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.7
    87%
    5 Ratings

    Upgrades and platform fixes

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.5
    75%
    5 Ratings

    Attribute Ratings

    • Consul, by HashiCorp is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating

    Likelihood to Recommend

    8.6

    Consul

    86%
    5 Ratings
    8.5

    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

    85%
    5 Ratings

    Usability

    10.0

    Consul

    100%
    1 Rating

    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

    N/A
    0 Ratings

    Support Rating

    8.8

    Consul

    88%
    4 Ratings
    6.4

    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

    64%
    2 Ratings

    Likelihood to Recommend

    Consul

    Consul can provide a light-weight, lightning-fast and robust solution for the following:
    • Network mesh
    • Service DNS
    • Global key-value store (values can be complex objects as well)
    • Utility for blue-green deployments
    • Service health checking
    Consul can be used in any or a combination of these scenarios. Regardless if you are a network administrator or a regular software engineer, Consul can add value to your work.

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    Borislav Traykov | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

    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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    Pros

    Consul

    • Key-Value database management.
    • Service discovery.
    • Centralized configuration database with native high availability.

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    Erlon Sousa Pinheiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

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

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    Cons

    Consul

    • The GUI: The GUI interface for Consul has gotten a lot better over the years. Since Consul is so easy to interact with via API, this isn't a showstopper, but for those that are less command line inclined it's always nice to be able to refer them to an easy to use and understand web interface
    • It's chatty: Consul is extremely chatty. Sometimes it's particularly chatty at 2am with no indication as to why and eats up quite a bit of resources. Just be sure to provision your systems that typically take a heavy load with a little extra for Consul

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    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

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

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    Pricing Details

    Consul

    General

    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Starting Price

    $0.027 per month

    Consul Editions & Modules

    Edition
    Open Source (self-managed)$01
    Cloud (managed Consul)starting at $.0272
    EnterpriseSelf-Managed Custom Deployments
    1. always free
    2. Per Hour
    3. none
    Additional Pricing Details
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    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

    General

    Free Trial
    —
    Free/Freemium Version
    —
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    —
    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Starting Price

    —

    IBM Cloud Managed Istio Editions & Modules

    —
    Additional Pricing Details
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    Usability

    Consul

    Consul 10.0
    Based on 1 answer
    Consul's API is extremely user friendly. While their web interface isn't quite as "mature", it's still pretty easily navigated for the average person. Together they make a pretty easy to pick up and use tool.

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    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Support Rating

    Consul

    Consul 8.8
    Based on 4 answers
    I've never used paid support from HashiCorp, but I consider its support a good one, since they provide a lot of free resources for the community and there are good user groups supporting you on several sorts of issues. Also, HashiCorp is known as a company with a strong relationship with the community, that is easily noticed by the events HashiCorp promotes over the world.

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    Erlon Sousa Pinheiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Erlon Sousa Pinheiro
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    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

    IBM Cloud Managed Istio 6.4
    Based on 2 answers
    Training and usage support available

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    Alternatives Considered

    Consul

    Consul was easier to configure out of the box than Serf and gave us more initial options. Its easy to use tools and support were by far superior to Serf in many ways. Support alone was one of those areas that Serf could take an example from Consul to keep its customers happy.

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    Eric Krueger | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

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    Return on Investment

    Consul

    • It contains a native web UI, which in contrast to its counterparts, is handy, very intuitive and - most importantly - very informative. It leaves no room for doubt about your services "forest" health. So, for that purpose, the learning curve was almost down to non-existent. Our team managed to work seamlessly with Consul being our services API
    • Our management staff had a difficult time understanding what Consul was really all about. For technical staff it is pretty simple to understand the huge value such a tool can pose to our suite of solutions, but once our management staff took the grasp of its valuable handy set of tools, we didn't take long to start using it and keeping track of our Swarm overall health, with was a constant concern for the entire company before.
    • For load balancing purposes, we were relying pretty much on guesses before we decided to use Consul. One would check a certain node overall health and decide if we would need to spring a new instance at AWS or Digital Ocean.

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    Claudio Fernando Maciel | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Claudio Fernando Maciel
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    IBM Cloud Managed Istio

    • 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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    Sachin Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
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