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    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

    Score8 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
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    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
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    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    This is a very difficult question, because there are a lot of similarities and the differences are minor but could be important if your use-case requires something like that.
    For example if you need a cluster that is ready sooner than 45 minutes or a data center/location in …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    During the migration process, we need a repository to store the data so we can first migrate it to the cloud and then build the migrated servers from there. After that, we also generate some revenue based on that data.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Easy to work with the product. Work fine. And very useful every single time. Try and you never use the monolith apps. Every day is easy to upgrade the platform and the new things about the product. Better try the product in cloud is very important for you and your business. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, although a bit costly is more efficient in understandability and scaling horizontally and vertically, docker on the other hand is free of cost but the container files can get really lengthy, messy and hard to read and look at. Docker can also …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    I have earlier used various services, such as Kubernetes and Google Cloud Run. Still, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service offers more convenience and a larger set of functions and features are available in Kubernetes. Google Cloud Run is much closer to a server less approach to …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Both services are very similar and work in a very similar way, both fulfilling their purpose well. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service was chosen to test how a different platform from the traditional one would work during the execution of the project and whether it would perform well. …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    It is more focous on enterprise security and hybrid cloud support, It is also openshift to enhance from anywhere, tight integration with other tool, It's cloud features so that we can easily to use from anywhere and it is easily to integrate with ibm other tool so that multiple …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Many solutions and vendors are offering the service to deploy a solution for based Kubernetes cloud, but we have selected IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service for the optimization, high availability, DRP process, reduced downtimes, support, documentation, and the easy way to deploy Kube…
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    IBM Cloud is simple to use and has no custom requirements to start, Other products are not cost-efficient compared to IBM IKS.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    AWS Fargate, EKS, ECS, Docker Containers
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    IBM Kubernetes Service and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) are two popular managed Kubernetes offerings that allow organizations to deploy, manage and scale their containerized applications.

    Advantages of IBM Kubernetes Service
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a scalable solution, but compared to AWS and Mirantis it is not auto-scaling, and The technical support from IBM is kind of poor.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Our almost all use-cases are being addressed by IKS and integrations on IBM Cloud. So have not necessarily explored other vendors with similar depth.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Well, as we were in a state to compulsory implement this service, but then it is very suited for deployment of a service that has higher fault tolerance. And maintaining the lifecycle of custom made resources. And the ability to integrate other services also
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    The agility of Kubernetes allows it to be deployed quickly with short iterations. Operability makes it work well over time, not just at [the] deployment phase and the application itself is able to expose a health check in order for the infrastructure it is running on to query …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    All of the container management systems we evaluated are popular and each has its unique features and benefits. Kubernetes is the solution we found with containerization, agile development, and continuous delivery which would shorten the time it took to get a project up and …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    It's very fast, easy to navigate, and has more features and compatibility while using the GUI. Pricing is less compared to IBM.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    With the scalability, the management, the coordination, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service really empowers the whole IT team and gives the company more time back than we had before. It is a system that has the capability to manage where workloads are being distributed out and [do] …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Kubernetes was original formed by Google. We had a lot of compute in Google Cloud Platform and used to use their managed Kubernetes service Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and it performed quite well. I think both products are solid, but I lean toward GKE. However, I would opt …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    When compared to AWS, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service offers more features and also comes at a reasonable cost.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Docker is the other alternative we considered. But I suppose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service does the job pretty well for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Directing administrations, similar to API entryways, constrained you to do everything automatically through config records. I would have favored a GUI for minor design changes. I think the planned maxim was that you could push configs from versional sources, while as yet having …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    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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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    8.1
    20 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Security and Isolation8.120 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.520 Ratings
    Cluster Management7.820 Ratings
    Storage Management8.020 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization8.020 Ratings
    Discovery Tools7.819 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.720 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery8.418 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.220 Ratings
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    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (86 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (16 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    • 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
    • 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
    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
    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
    IBM's cloud is almost infallible.
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    Performance
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    • 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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