IBM Cloud Container Registry vs. IBM Cloud Managed Istio

When I need to do a proof of concept of a solution for a client and it must have high levels of privacy and at the same time performance, I use IBM Cloud Container Registry.

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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• Scalable Plans
• Easily integrate it with IBM Kube service
• Easy integration with IBM Cloud CI/CD tools.

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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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• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Docker

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

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Training and usage support available

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Not Applicable in our case. We started using IBM container registry as IBM bluemix is our preferred cloud platform

Incentivized

• reliability
• easy integration
• multicloud

• 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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