Kubernetes

Kubernetes

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kubernetes	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Kubernetes is an open-source container cluster manager.	N/A

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Kubernetes

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Community Pulse
	Kubernetes
Considered Both Products	Kubernetes AL Agustin Lacorazza Infraestructure and Security Leader Chose Kubernetes Well, me and me team select Kubernetes for the natural solution and the easily assignation of resources to deploy a solution than could have multiple clients in the same infrastructure, so, for each one client we are running a set of different pods, and that's why we select … Helpful? Asad Khan Technical CARE Specialist Chose Kubernetes As I said earlier also - - K8s manage the workloads better as compared to OpenStack in terms of reliability, observability & reachability. - K8s is not limited to only a single networking or storage solution as compared to OpenStack. Incentivized Helpful? PS Pradeep Sharma Senior Specialist Chose Kubernetes Kubernetes cluster is cable to manage multiple nodes on on-premises or cloud infrastructure. In Kubernetes, we can easily add new nodes when ever required. We can easily update and rollback our application hosted on Kubernetes with the help of rolling and blue green deployment. … Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Kubernetes Most of the required features for any orchestration tool or framework, which is provided by Kubernetes. After understanding all modules and features of the K8S, it is the best fit for us as compared with others out there. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Kubernetes I didn't have too much experience or exposure to OpenShift but I do remember that in certain areas our organization found Kubernetes to be more useful and met our needs in comparison to OpenShift. Although I can't compare, I think it's easier to customize Kubernetes because of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Kubernetes Kubernetes is a great alternative to cloud hosted expensive solutions. It is extremely well documented and maintained. It is probably the best home-grown solution available for container infrastructure management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Kubernetes Kubernetes is very unique. I do not think there are any competitors to take over its leading place. And you can always use Kuberntes with other tools to make the whole system better. Kubernetes is backed up by Google and has been tested over the years. It is reliable, fast, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Kubernetes When planning our latest product we tried out many hosted container service and a few local tools. These included services run by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon and tools from companies like Docker and Apache. We ended up selecting Kubernetes because it was compatible with all … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Kubernetes I used OpenShift v2 - which was pre-Kubernetes. (It now uses Kubernetes under the hood - but keeps it fairly hidden). Kubernetes was a ton more stable and easier to use. No more custom CLI to use in order to script together deployments. No more messy ‘push your entire code … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Kubernetes Docker Swarm is not as advanced as Kubernetes and there are no out of the box solutions for auto scaling and deployment strategies. Docker swarm doesnot have much experience with production deployments at scale. Swarm has a smaller community, and less frequent releases as … Incentivized Helpful? Adam Eivy Developer Solutions Architect Chose Kubernetes With AWS ECS, you have to provision the virtual hardware, then use that hardware as a pool for your container service. Each service has to be built out and scaled independently. Kubernetes allows us to use a cluster of machines like a big pool of resources, scaling and shipping … Incentivized Helpful? Manish Rajkarnikar Lead Engineer Chose Kubernetes mesos ; nomad; swarm Nomad is fairly new. Incentivized Helpful? Jake Luby Lead Engineer Chose Kubernetes We already had an enterprise Kubernetes 8 set up, so once we got our namespace it took me about 2 weeks to go from not knowing anything to having a self-contained jar in a container, running on Kubernetes 8. In comparison, it took me two weeks to install Java on a blank server … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Configuration management Pro Scale up Pro Business needs
Top Cons	Minus Learning curve Minus Steep learning curve Minus Setting up

Features

Kubernetes

Container Management

Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
	Kubernetes 7.8 1 Ratings 1% below category average
Security and Isolation	10.01 Ratings
Container Orchestration	7.01 Ratings
Cluster Management	9.01 Ratings
Storage Management	9.01 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	8.01 Ratings
Discovery Tools	5.01 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	5.01 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	9.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Kubernetes
Small Businesses	Portainer Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (16 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend	Kubernetes *K8s should be avoided* - If your application works well without being converted into microservices-based architecture & fits correctly in a VM, needs less scaling, have a fixed traffic pattern then it is better to keep away from Kubernetes. Otherwise, the operational challenges & technical expertise will add a lot to the OPEX. Also, if you're the one who thinks that containers consume fewer resources as compared to VMs then this is not true. As soon as you convert your application to a microservice-based architecture, a lot of components will add up, shooting your resource consumption even higher than VMs so, please beware. *Kubernetes is a good choice* - When the application needs quick scaling, is already in microservice-based architecture, has no fixed traffic pattern, most of the employees already have desired skills. Incentivized Asad Khan Technical CARE Specialist Read full review
Pros	Kubernetes Complex cluster management can be done with simple commands with strong authentication and authorization schemes Exhaustive documentation and open community smoothens the learning process As a user a few concepts like pod, deployment and service are sufficient to go a long way Incentivized Nitin Pasumarthy Web & Network Performance Read full review
Cons	Kubernetes Local development, Kubernetes does tend to be a bit complicated and unnecessary in environments where all development is done locally. The need for add-ons, Helm is almost required when running Kubernetes. This brings a whole new tool to manage and learn before a developer can really start to use Kubernetes effectively. Finicy configmap schemes. Kubernetes configmaps often have environment breaking hangups. The fail safes surrounding configmaps are sadly lacking. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Kubernetes Most of the required features for any orchestration tool or framework, which is provided by Kubernetes. After understanding all modules and features of the K8S, it is the best fit for us as compared with others out there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Kubernetes Because of microservices, Kubernetes makes it easy to find the cost of each application easily. Like every new technology, initially, it took more resources to educate ourselves but over a period of time, I believe it's going to be worth it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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