IBM Cloud Code Engine vs. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that unifies the deployment of containers and applications including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. This serverless compute service aims to remove the burden of building, deploying, and managing workloads in Kubernetes so users can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. With IBM Cloud Code Engine users can run any workload…N/A
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 8.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering, delivering user tools and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that users can bind to cloud services related to IBM Watson®, IoT, DevOps and data analytics. As a certified K8s provider, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides intelligent scheduling, self-healing, horizontal scaling, service discovery and load balancing, automated rollouts and rollbacks, and secret and configuration management. The Kubernetes…N/A
Pricing
IBM Cloud Code EngineIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
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Offerings
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IBM Cloud Code EngineIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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Community Pulse
IBM Cloud Code EngineIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Considered Both Products
IBM Cloud Code Engine
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
IBM Cloud Satellite is distributed cloud platform while IBM Code Engine is serverless. They both has capabilities that are non overlapping and run on IKS/K8S.
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
Code enigine is much easier to understand.
Chose IBM Cloud Code Engine
The IBM Cloud Code Engine is kind of a complex platform that renders effective Cloud services like easy deployment and management of Application performance and its resource management capability can not be compared with any of the above platforms. The baseline management …
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
IBM Cloud Code EngineIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Code Engine
7.1
15 Ratings
13% below category average
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
-
Ratings
Scalability7.415 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.815 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Code Engine
-
Ratings
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
7.5
15 Ratings
4% below category average
Security and Isolation00 Ratings7.615 Ratings
Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.215 Ratings
Cluster Management00 Ratings7.415 Ratings
Storage Management00 Ratings7.615 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings7.615 Ratings
Discovery Tools00 Ratings6.915 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings7.615 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings7.714 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings7.315 Ratings
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IBM Cloud Code EngineIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Small Businesses
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Score 9.5 out of 10
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Score 9.5 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Code EngineIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Likelihood to Recommend
5.9
(15 ratings)
7.1
(80 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.9
(16 ratings)
Usability
6.5
(12 ratings)
8.7
(16 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(15 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Code EngineIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
It would be a good solution for running serverless applications. Because infrastructure setup and maintenance expenses can be avoided, the investment will pay for itself. The time to value is short, allowing IT to respond to business demands quickly. It aided us in customizing security as well as operating a personal project using to autoscale up and down approach. Also, because there isn't much hassle, items can be pushed into production as soon as possible. Simply push a container, create an application, and you're ready to go. But, It is less suited when you have a static machine or need to keep data in some way and do not want to utilize network storage or a database.
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IBM
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is ideal for deploying modern applications on a microservices architecture -- where easy scaling and ability to update are important. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service also handles automated deployments and load balancing very well, particularly if you're already working in the IBM Cloud ecosystem. There are applications less suited to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service -- such as very small applications, where managing an IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service cluster would be overkill. Also, users not familiar with container organization might find IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to be a challenge to manage effectively.
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Pros
IBM
  • Managed Environment for partners and customers - shifting skills and speed to CSP
  • A variety of programming model support
  • Elastic scalability for cloud native development and speed
  • Flexible consumption model
  • Containerized workloads with horizontal scalability
  • Here is an example - live demo walk-thru delivered to partners and community:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBClYgpDFg
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IBM
  • IBM has a strong focus on serverless and Kubernetes. This shows in the platform. Deploying containers to Kubernetes was very easy.
  • Deploying a Kubernetes cluster through the GUI is very easy and quick. On top of that, IBM Cloud offers a single node cluster for Free.
  • Container Registry is a very good product for managing container images. Integration with Kubernetes was seemless.
  • Portability. To transition from Google Cloud Kubernetes to IBM Cloud Kubernetes took almost no effort. We mostly use the CLI and the standard tools such as kubectl were present.
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Cons
IBM
  • The present lack of tools like manuals and videos aggravates the difficulties in effectively merging various technologies.
  • While containerizing is still a fresh and complex concept with numerous benefits IBM Cloud Code Engine which is developed on containerizing could be difficult for customers with less experience.
  • Furthermore smaller companies cannot afford these technologies and legal barriers impede the adoption process even if the solutions offer speedy deployment.
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IBM
  • I constantly get this error even when everything is well configured prefect.exceptions.AuthorizationError: [{'path': ['auth_info'], 'message': 'AuthenticationError: Forbidden', 'extensions': {'code': 'UNAUTHENTICATED'}}]
  • Then sometimes the error disapear without changine anything, happened twice to me. Should there be an issue with the authentication service? Please let's improve or let users know why this may be happening.
  • Improve the UX in the browse console when removing many images at once
  • UX on the process of installing KeyCloack operator
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
Since this capability supports a wide variety of use cases - all on non proprietary and open technology based frameworks
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IBM
We have our application running on a CentOS compartment on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. We have been utilizing the help since IBM Cloud initially dispatched. We liked the adaptability and versatility that IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service give us. Since we are tiny, the Kubernetes administration is just utilized at present inside my venture bunch.
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Usability
IBM
IBM Cloud Code Engine is good for developers to create a microservice based on typescript and nodejs. The tool can help mange the project very well. It decrease the difficulty for developement and increase deloping speed. However, the code engine UI on IBM cloud does not contain enough features it can support.
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IBM
We actually haven't had any real problems in our clusters recently and the results we have gotten from adopting IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service have been beyond even our greatest expectations. The community has helped optimize the use of the system and make it relatively simpler to use.
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
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IBM
IBM's cloud is almost infallible.
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Performance
IBM
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IBM
IBM's cloud has a site in my conuntry (MEXICO) so the network latency was almost 0
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Support Rating
IBM
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IBM
The self-guided support was solid, and there are plenty of online videos to guide first time users, but I think one area of improvement is a faster way to transfer a large quantity of files from our local machine to the cloud for storage (Aspera)
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Online Training
IBM
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IBM
Online training is really an important resource for using these tools. IBM's help center is rich in useful information and tips. Also, external guides and tutorials are available (e.g. on youtube), but I followed only IBM ones and I had no difficulties.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
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IBM
Ease of use. Very intuitive. We have been looking for a product that allows us to orchestrate our docker containers in a way where it allows us to effectively scale our applications to production. It also provides us a way of monitoring all our infrastructure in a very clear concise way.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
What impresses me most about IBM Cloud Code Engine is the container workload management capability and the Cloud services and dataflow monitoring functionalities. Data security and network security control via IBM Cloud Code Engine is quite excellent and very responsive data integration functions and the first deployment is not very technical.
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IBM
The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is quite flexible platform with profitable Cloud functions performance and the data security through IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is nice. To manage container easily and process huge amount of data at the same time, the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is amazing ad the platform deployment is very easy after training.
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Scalability
IBM
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IBM
IBM's CKS does not offers automatic autoscaling nor vertical scaling (automatic). Other services like Google Kubernetes Engine scales up and down very well
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • IBM Cloud Code Engine secures my underlying infrastructure and help manage multiple project data.
  • Easy resources management and the multiple transactions tracking through IBM Cloud Code Engine is amazing.
  • Effective Application isolation from other workload using IBM Cloud Code Engine is perfect.
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IBM
  • IKS can provide around 30% savings when it comes to operational costs since Kubernetes is designed to run applications in most machines in the most efficient manner possible.
  • Managed Kubernetes can save a company time by 45% since Managed Kubernetes usually is seamlessly updated, without any interruptions with the workload. IKS fall into this benefit.
  • We heard people had saved in maintenance downtimes when it comes to Kubernetes by a factor of 10 so IKS can contribute to more flexible and distributed services with virtually no downtime.
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