Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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Scale fast with AKS

8 out of 10
July 08, 2021
We use [Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)] to deploy and manage multiple instances of micro service APIs for our customers. [Azure Kubernetes …
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What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is designed to make deploying and managing containerized applications easy. It offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. It allows development…

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What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?

Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is designed to make deploying and managing containerized applications easy. It offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. It allows development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver, and scale applications with confidence.

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February 24, 2022

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Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Used Azure Kubernetes for CI/CD pipeline for scale and manage microservice application. To manage and containerize applications, scaling services based on load. Used Azure Kubernetes for all application deployment and integration, containerization and scaling of applications. It is highly appreciable with its usage and policies, easy to maintain, governance and helpful for continuous deployment and integration.
Pros and Cons
  • Continuous deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Containerization of application
  • Security of Microsoft playing a vital role
  • Management and governance of application
  • Need to update cluster manually
  • Policies cannot be updated for existing components
  • if any change in policy every has to create cluster
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure Kubernetes Service is most cost efficient Kubernetes service. it has high security, good governance and easy to manage. Areas where it is less appropriate is manual cluster updates. Azure Kubernetes is most appropriate to use for containerization, continuous deployment and continuous integration. Its very easy to configure and can work with jenkins, and build tools as well. Its easy governance provide facility to manage appropriately. But the major issue is with when configuring clusters and a regular update of policy is required, in this case it requires to create new setup every time rather than updating the same existing items.
February 04, 2022

One of the cost effective Kubernetes Service on Cloud!

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Administrator in Information Technology
Entertainment Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) helps to offload the data and high processing load (as need be) to outside our data center and increase the availability for different necessary applications. The transition to AKS wasn't that difficult. We are almost confident and ready to have more production data in AKS.
Pros and Cons
  • AKS makes it easier to replicate data to multiple regions
  • Azure portal make it easier to manage the resources of the organization
  • It's a little challenging to foresee how much would be the cost to incur for our usage
Likelihood to Recommend
At one instance, there was a fire in our data center and the backup power had some issues because of which the whole DC went down. I believe with AKS and the replication it's easier to handle such a situation. Also, the scenario would have been pretty transparent to the end-users.
October 21, 2021

Great value for the money

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Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing
Franklin Sports (Sporting Goods, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is being used primarily to support internal analytics applications that need to scale up and down for a variable user base each day. These internal applications support warehouse operations primarily but we are branching out to other functions such as sales, product development and marketing science.
Pros and Cons
  • Scales quickly when the user base increases randomly
  • Downgrades very fast if a bunch of users hop off the system
  • Great dev UX for IT
  • The pricing structure is complicated
  • The stats on usage isn't the easiest to understand
  • The overall microsoft contract is hard to wrap my head around
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure Kubernetes Service is well suited for companies that need to rapidly scale (or remove storage capacity) quickly to support any type of online application. In our case, we built an application for the warehouse team. Around the holidays, when the staff increases quickly, the applications have way more users, requiring more storage.
July 08, 2021

Scale fast with AKS

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Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use [Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)] to deploy and manage multiple instances of micro service APIs for our customers. [Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)] allows us to quickly deploy and manage our APIs at scale in a repeatable way.
Pros and Cons
  • Highly repeatable process
  • Minimizes the amount of software to install
  • Easily scale resources to meet demand
  • Steep learning curve
  • Expected charges are unclear until you see real production usage
  • Operations teams need to learn an entirely new skill set
Likelihood to Recommend
[Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)] is great when you need to be able to deploy a large number of services in a highly repeatable way. Once you know how to use it, it is a very fast to stand up a new environment.

However there is a lot you need to know to get to that point and it is a specialized area. This is not suitable for small teams who are supporting multiple product stacks.
November 06, 2019

AKS-A great product in Microsoft Suite

Mounika Chirasani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mounika Chirasani
Software Engineer
JDA Software (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Azure Kubernetes Service is used by the Product development and Cloud team here. It is used to scale the microservices very easily. It provides an open solution that offers portability for both user containers and user application configuration. It also accelerates containerized application development for the developers.
Easy to set up in CI/CD pipeline It has a good pricing option as well in Azure. Basic works fine.
Pros and Cons
  • To scale the microservices very easily.
  • Easy to set up in CI/CD pipeline.
  • It has a good pricing option as well in Azure. Basic works fine.
  • Accelerates containerized application development for the developers.
  • Database services monitoring is weak.
  • It doesn't possess a good monitoring solution.
  • Response times in cloud applications could be faster.
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure Kubernetes service works well, installs easily, is robust and is constantly updated. It uses a great environment when you're running a bunch of servers handling user traffic. The monitoring is quite nice too. Except for the monitoring tools for the database. Azure Kubernetes service still doesn't support autoscaling of nodes. It takes time to fully set up. But once you get going it’s fine.
Support Rating
9
Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours.
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