IBM Cloud Container Registry vs. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Container Registry
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Container Registry enables users to store and distribute container images, and run them in the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and other runtime environments.N/A
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 8.2 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 Container RegistryIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Container RegistryIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
IBM Cloud Container RegistryIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Considered Both Products
IBM Cloud Container Registry
Chose IBM Cloud Container Registry
When I need to work with private containers in a proof of concept I use IBM Cloud Container Registry.
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Reserved instance + serverless may be a better option, but VM is too heavy for us. The reason for choosing IBM Cloud Kubernetes is for the K8s and smooth network.
Features
IBM Cloud Container RegistryIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Container Registry
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Ratings
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
8.0
19 Ratings
1% below category average
Security and Isolation00 Ratings7.719 Ratings
Container Orchestration00 Ratings8.319 Ratings
Cluster Management00 Ratings7.819 Ratings
Storage Management00 Ratings7.819 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings8.219 Ratings
Discovery Tools00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks00 Ratings8.119 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery00 Ratings8.317 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings8.119 Ratings
Best Alternatives
IBM Cloud Container RegistryIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Small Businesses
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.1 out of 10
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Container RegistryIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
7.8
(85 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(16 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 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 Container RegistryIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
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.
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IBM
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service also stands out in environments where the workloads vary continuously and require befitting scale. The product excels particularly in microservices structures, wherein the companies would harness the capacity for container orchestration and automated scaling. Still, it may face the challenges due to monolith applications that have not been originally developed for using container technology.
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Pros
IBM
  • Scalable Plans
  • Easily integrate it with IBM Kube service
  • Easy integration with IBM Cloud CI/CD tools.
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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
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Docker
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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
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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
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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
Not Applicable in our case. We started using IBM container registry as IBM bluemix is our preferred cloud platform
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IBM
We mainly selected [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service] because IBM fabric blockchain service is mostly compatible with it. To have all the infrastructure in a single cloud to get the best output we selected the [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service].
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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
  • reliability
  • easy integration
  • multicloud
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IBM
  • Increased development speed and agility allows to build features faster and more economically.
  • Improved resource utilization helps keep applications running very efficiently, which saves on cloud service expenses.
  • Scalability and resilience allows for scaling up or down based on demand, which keeps applications running efficiently and more economically.
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