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IBM Cloud Managed Istio vs. Rafay

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Score 8.7 out of 10
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The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools.N/A
Rafay
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
The Rafay Kubernetes Operations Platform is a turnkey offering that automates Kubernetes cluster management, modern application deployment and operations at scale, from Rafay Systems in Sunnyvale. The platform enables development, operations and site reliability engineering teams to govern, manage and monitor multiple Kubernetes clusters and distros, and operating applications in Kubernetes environments running on-premise, in the cloud or at the Edge. Rafay is designed to accelerate platform…N/A
Pricing
IBM Cloud Managed IstioRafay
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Managed IstioRafay
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
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Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Managed Istio
8.0
5 Ratings
2% below category average
Rafay
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces6.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration8.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification8.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
IBM Cloud Managed IstioRafay
Small Businesses
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Score 9.0 out of 10
Portainer
Portainer
Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloud Private
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.5 out of 10
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloud Private
IBM Cloud Private
Score 9.5 out of 10
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Managed IstioRafay
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(5 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
6.4
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Managed IstioRafay
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
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.
Sachin Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sachin Kumar
Infrastructure Engineer
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Rafay Systems, Inc
Rafay is well suited for managing K8 deployments in on-prem deployments as well as AWS. Their support for GKE seems a bit limited.
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Pros
IBM
  • Layers transparently onto existing applications
  • Allows control of access and rules to be developed
  • Creates metrics for usage
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Michael French
Senior Manager Workforce Planning - Project Managment
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Rafay Systems, Inc
No answers on this topic
Cons
IBM
  • Some more functionalities added could improve it better.
  • Better technical user guidance.
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Rafay Systems, Inc
  • Seamless Single Sign-On Integration
  • Use of a jumpstation to bootstrap a new EKS cluster deployment
  • Some information in the UI does not auto populate
  • UI can be enhanced a bit
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Anonymous
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Usability
IBM
No answers on this topic
Rafay Systems, Inc
So far our experience with using Rafay's platform has been very positive.
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Support Rating
IBM
Training and usage support available
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Rafay Systems, Inc
I have dealt with a lot of support organizations and am really glad to say that Rafay goes above and beyond expectations when it comes to supporting our teams.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
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Anonymous
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Rafay Systems, Inc
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
IBM
No answers on this topic
Rafay Systems, Inc
No, we are very satisfied with the contract terms and pricing model and hope it does not change in the future.
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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • 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.
Sachin Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sachin Kumar
Infrastructure Engineer
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Rafay Systems, Inc
No answers on this topic
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