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February 08, 2021
We provide multiple blockchain api service solution to our client for a proxy voting application used by major stock transfer company in usa. Our blockchain api were hosted and manages inside the IBM [Cloud Kubernetes Service]. The [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service] has been used by all across the department among the company.
- Service dashboard can be loaded with more goto information
- Disk, persistent volume etc should be also easy to access from service dashboard
- Updating node and kubernetes version is pretty hassle some
We hardly use internal dashboard rather we used infrastructure as code from our development side.
- in-person training
- no training
February 05, 2021
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is used by specific departments of the organization who supports microservices based workload that needs to be deployed on highly available and highly secure native Kubernetes Cluster without bothering to manage the cluster. It solves a range of issues needed related to development and deployment of applications in Kubernetes environment like availability, scalability, security, and management of cluster.
- Management of Cluster
- Available in different sizes
- Availability
- Scalability
- Security
- Free Kubernetes Cluster provides 2 vCPUs 4GB RAM . I suggest to increase this quota and duration of free trial so that more PoC and demos can be done on IBM cloud. The more the developer community is comfortable with IBM Cloud Portal interface, the more popular it will become which in turn will bring more business.
GUI offers a good alternative to command line interface so that the novice users can bring themselves up to speed. Also, the Continuous integration features simplifies the development task by allowing [you] to deploy the application directly from the IDEs saving a lot of developers time and effort.
- Online training
I am working in a Information Technology and service based company. We focused on customer satisfaction and working with IBM cloud let us satisfy our customer more than ever. We also trained our employees in IBM Cloud for the better understanding of cloud architecture and its use.
- Availability
- Persistence
- Reliability
- Assurance
- On-time incident management
- Include K3s
- Increase ICR availability
Yes GUI also used by us. Sometimes we prefer GUI for better understanding.
- Online training
- in-person training
June 17, 2020
We elected to use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service because of the excellent support for blockchain (hyperledger). The fact that we could containerized master nodes and move the chain outside of IBM cloud services when that time arrived. As well, the presence and availability of IBM consulting services enabled us to feel confident that we would never the stuck at sea.
- Blockchain Abilities
- Brand Trust
- Impressive GUI/appearance
- AWS-Parity
We have had a good time learning and modifying cluster services with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. I think it would be easier if we stuck to IBM's purely-native cluster service GUI and metaphors — in fact, I know it would be. In our case, we have a client demand to be multi-cloud, so IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service was a first stop for POC, since one of the cloud environments the client expects is IBM.
June 08, 2020
We use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service for research purposes. It is used by the whole Cloud services research team. It allows us to scale up easily our applications and to set up autoscale mechanisms when a condition is verified. We use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service because it is really cost-effective and permits a precise billing based on the used resources.
- Cost effective
- Horizontal Scaling
- Microservice Approach
- Containerization
- Overkill for simple applications
- Learning curve slow
- Not all software are native compatible
In our experience, we typically use IBM Cloud Kubernetes from CLI. It is really powerful and permits us to manage the entire cluster with simple APIs. CLI tools can be installed also on dumb terminals so that no powerful and GUI furnished nodes are required for managing the Cluster. Sometimes we use also the web GUI, really intuitive and complete, but less flexible than CLI.
- Online training
April 08, 2020
Our entire department is using it to create high-availability clusters, making mobile scalability truly user-friendly and easy to develop multilingual applications.
- You can add features easily, growing as you need.
- Options for dedicated servers or VMs gives us a lot of flexibility from a provisioning standpoint.
- Quick deployment.
- Powerful tool!
- Old operation guide.
- For beginner developers, it takes longer to learn costs.
- Too expensive.
We are still trying to make better use of these features.
We are using it for proof of concept for microservices using Kubernetes and Docker engine.
- Simple.
- Scalable.
- Reliable.
- Not available in all regions.
- Setting up cluster takes time.
It's always good to have GUI for quick learning but when it comes to management, CLI always takes precedence. It is good that IBM Kubernetes offers both options.
I am currently using it for a project. It is meant to address the ease of orchestrating the deployment of containers.
- Good documentation.
- Ease of installation.
- Good UI.
- Having better instructional videos online would be nice.
It is easy to deploy new applications and the documentation is, for the most part, easy to read which makes the ease of using the CLI more convenient for all.
October 09, 2019
We are an IT consulting company specializing in cloud architecture, security, hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. We recently starting working with IBM Cloud. We used IBM Cloud Kubernetes to train ourselves in preparation to advise our customers.
We deployed several test environments from our Google Cloud Kubernetes system to IBM Cloud Kubernetes for practice. This proceeded without incident or technical problems. I wrote an article on my personal website that detailed my experiences with IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Kubernetes.
We deployed several test environments from our Google Cloud Kubernetes system to IBM Cloud Kubernetes for practice. This proceeded without incident or technical problems. I wrote an article on my personal website that detailed my experiences with IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Kubernetes.
- 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.
- IBM Kubernetes worked as I expected it to. The area that I would like improvement is either the simplification of the Kubernetes commands or a better management layer built on top. It takes considerable effort to train administrators to manage Kubernetes. However, I feel that adding a management layer should be an option so that the core IBM Kubernetes offering stays industry compatible.
We understand the IBM Cloud Kubernetes GUI and CLI well. However, as I previously wrote, Kubernetes is still too complex of a platform. This means that we need to invest resources into training admins to manage Kubernetes. This has a cost burden today that will improve as Kubernetes matures and availability of admins and developers improves.
December 13, 2019
We had used Kubernetes service for building hyper ledger fabric applications. Kubernetes comes in handy in integration with hyper ledger for building various blockchain use cases. We use Kubernetes within our blockchain team for building products for our clients.
- Simple
- Easy to integrate
- Robust
- Efficient
- On a lower note, it's a bit expensive.
Cluster management is simpler than we expected. We benefited from this feature as we overcome the overhead of running multiple clusters of dockers and having network issues. Now the entire process is very much simplified.
December 06, 2019
We are developing a blockchain application for a healthcare-related product. We are using the IBM blockchain platform with the Kubernetes cluster to deploy our network as well as to expose our node application
- Security is the key feature which our client expects to maintain across the application.
- Built-in IP address provision so that we do not need to get an external IP.
- External service connection ease.
- Built-in volume management to store our keys.
- IP addresses are expensive as compared.
- Logging is not up to the mark.
- Not highly available in all countries, we need to use other region clusters.
- Downtime on many occasions.
Yes, we have used the DevOps tools for continuous integration. It has helped us to use developers from different regions and deploy the code on the integration DevOps tool and also we could manage separate dev and production environments.
December 02, 2019
As a systems integrator, we use IBM Cloud Kubernetes for our customers for deploying micro-services in Kubernetes as a backend for several apps. Kubernetes is easily configurable, deployable and scaleable. We can innovate and deploy new functionality in days combined with an Agile way of working. So IBM Cloud Kubernetes gives us the certainty of a managed container service and we can fully concentrate on the micro-services and the data.
- Managed cluster
- Easy configuration
- Ideal for micro-services architecture.
- Cheap compared to old VM's.
- Offers good support.
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is designed to simplify cluster
management. It offers a GUI for novice users, in addition to a CLI and
API options to integrate with continuous integration tools. Our organisation got the full benefit of this, using juniors and seniors in the project.
management. It offers a GUI for novice users, in addition to a CLI and
API options to integrate with continuous integration tools. Our organisation got the full benefit of this, using juniors and seniors in the project.
March 22, 2020
Before, we hosted our entire cluster in GKE (Google Cloud). This was not user-friendly at all and after another random increase in the price (for us almost 70 euro per month), we wanted to switch to another cloud provider. We're in the middle of migrating our entire cluster to IBM Cloud and so far we're really happy with it!
- Personal touch with their Slack channel.
- Very affordable and nice billing overview.
- Docs could be improved
We use the CLI and looking to integrate their API as well
January 29, 2020
I'm using IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to implement a solution with the IBM Blockchain Platform. Our product is around Blockchain, but nobody can use the Kubernetes Service. I'm the only one who can manage it. The only problem I have is its capacity. Now, I'm checking out how to upgrade each machine instead of adding more.
- Easy to use
- Not very expensive
- More documentation
- Capacity to upgrade easily
I'm using the GUI for novice users. It's fine for now. In a few weeks, I will use the CLI and API options for sure. But starting up is quicker with the GUI.
January 15, 2020
We've been using RedHat OpenShift for a while and are currently evaluating IBM Kubernetes directly for our clusters.
- We like the integrated K8s dashboard that IBM provides.
- The security audit of container images is great.
- One thing we'd like is options of more instances to be used as worker nodes.
Yes, we have significantly saved time with this and this helps us evaluate the service faster.
January 13, 2020
It is used for orchestration of business services. It is used by a department. It addresses automation of business processes.
- Comprehensive orchestration product.
- Good integration with public source code control system.
- Support for low footprint infrastructure for development could be better.
GUI for novice users helps with faster learning with leads to CLI and API usage.
November 08, 2019
A small portion of businesses uses K8s but only for microservices.
- Always, the free tier is attractive.
- The 30-day free tier expiration is pointless.
- Not all options are available on the free tier.
- Load-balancer type not available on the free tier.
- Cluster deployment is slow.
The tool's integration is great but I did not use it for my trial yet. I had a quick look at Toolchain and thought that the choice of toolings is very limited and not customizable.
Yes, IBM is a cloud partner of AA and we are using IBM Kubernetes. The master node and worker node are in with B2B cloud VPN and they are secure. API gateway is good.
- Secure
- Reliable
- Cost-effective
- Network security
- Vault
We are from pre-sales team, we'll make POC on that, and we will expose it to the world. Here I attended one internal IBM training in our organization. I found that IBM Cloud on DevOps only works on NodeJs support. We are looking on Java Simple Hello World app.
- Better to make it available for all webapp supports
- Everything is simple and user friendly, only thing is why we create separate cloud foundry app name space for Devops related projects
I haven't tried CLI
November 25, 2019
I'm currently trialing out IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service as part of my independent testing since our platform uses Kubernetes as our primary deployment method for our PaaS.
- Automated Kubernetes setup
- Upstream Kubernetes
- Has the option of having bare-metal instances
- Currently, the pricing for the instances is quite high (30% higher than major vendors), so that needs to be worked on.
- VM spinup times are slower than most major cloud vendors, if GCP only takes 60 seconds on average, IBM Cloud takes more than 10 minutes. This should be faster and could use more improvement
- While providing a barebones dashboard for Kubernetes is great, I believe having the IKS service to have its own managed dashboard is better than providing the upstream Kube's dashboard.
I don't think we've benefited since the management of the IKS clusters still requires us to be in the Kubernetes dashboard: again, most vendors usually have their own management dashboards, without relying on the upstream dashboard, so this is a kind of a problem when we want to interact via Web UI. This needs to be worked on.
Within our Smart City area, many of our customers ask us to develop software as it must be installed in their environments. Generally, they ask us to make an image with Kubernetes as a container. It is used in the IT area of our company and solves the problem of software exchange without relying on operating system configurations.
- Multi-platform
- Removes dependencies
- Simple use for IT staff
- It is not open source
- High price
- There are other standards like Docker or VMWare
Setting up a software tool with a container or microservice manager such as Kubernetes is much faster deployment. Even non-IT personnel can do it thanks to its simple GUI. It can be integrated with a lot of third-party tools, different operating systems, databases, etc. natively.
November 20, 2019
We currently are not using IBM Cloud Kuberentes Service. I used it while attending KubeCon 2019. While using it, I could definitely see the benefits that an organization would reap by using the product. It helps facilitate some of the more challenging aspects of creating a Kubernetes cluster on the cloud.
- Very good documentation for the commands
- Really good UI integration
- Easy to pick up with some light instruction
- I was on a bad wifi signal and lost connection a couple of times. The process of reconnecting was inconsistent and I sometimes lost my environment variable definitions
- Error messages were sometimes not descriptive. I tried performing a kubectl command and got a strange error that was essentially the result of not having the KUBECONFIG environment variable set due to the error above
While I haven't used this at my job, the GUI I think would be extremely helpful for all users, but especially for novice users. The CLI is a somewhat handy tool but the really well thought out documentation definitely helps raise it's relevance. I didn't get to play too much with the API, but it also seems fairly intuitive.
November 20, 2019
I attended a workshop on Kubernetes, specifically focusing on Istio. The service seems quite solid. IBM's special add-ons to Kubernetes, especially Watson, are what sets it apart from Amazon Webservices (AWS) or Google Compute Engine (GCE). While my experience is quite limited, the workshop showed me that it's a solid product, worth considering when choosing where to run Kubernetes.
- Watson
- Scaling
- Base Kubernetes Functions
- Pricing clarity
I've not benefited a lot from the Cluster Management tools, but in the limited experience I have, they seem great.
It is being used by the whole company. We use IBM Cloud Kubernetes for our VPN server. IBM has a lot of data centers around the globe thus it's really effective in connecting employees at different locations in Europe and USA to the company servers. As much as I know, our mail server is also located on IBM Cloud Kubernetes.
- It's located at many locations around the globe. Mainly in US and Europe
- Pay as you go plan for reduced costs
- Easy to maintain
- Not enough data centers located in Asia and South America
The GUI provides means of overall statistics. The real management is done via the CLI. The API is not so useful for small companies, but for companies with a lot of employees it would be a good option to integrate the common tasks into a simple app via the API to reduce the maintenance time.
March 03, 2020
Yes. We're trying to deploy cloud services on IBM Cloud Kubernetes. It's intended to improve productivity of my staff. However, according to my employees, the descriptions are rather difficult to understand. Sometimes they get confused about specific functions. They know how to run it, if they can find how to initialize the configurations.
- The network is rather reliable, which greatly satisfies our customer.
- High performance equals time saved
- Affordable. We believe it's an acceptable price.
- Complicated description - it's not easy to initialize the settings.
- Limited privileges - Kubernetes offer limited functions. It seems root authorization is not provided.
- Port forwarding can't be set after deploying the docker. Maybe we just haven't found how to change it.
No. Our IT administrator believes traditional management methods are easier to master. It's not necessary to try out complex tools.
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Scorecard Summary
What is IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service?
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a
managed Kubernetes offering to deliver powerful tools, an intuitive
user experience 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
service also has advanced capabilities around simplified cluster
management, container security and isolation policies, the ability for users to
design their own cluster, and integrated operational tools for
consistency in deployment. Visit the vendor's Docs pages for pricing and support information.
Categories: Container Management
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Video
Advantages of Managed Kubernetes
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Integrations
IBM Cloud Container Registry, IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, IBM Cloud DevOps Insights, Istio
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Competitors
Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon EKS
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Pricing
- Does not have featureFree Trial Available?No
- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?Optional
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% | |
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% | |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 50% | |
| Enterprises (> 500 employees) | 50% |
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Support Options
| Free Version | Paid Version | |
|---|---|---|
| Phone | ||
| Live Chat | ||
| FAQ/Knowledgebase | ||
| Social Media | ||
| Video Tutorials / Webinar | ||
| Slack Channel to Development Team |
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems: | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application: | No |
| Supported Countries: | https://console.bluemix.net/docs/containers/cs_regions.html#regions-and-zones |
| Supported Languages: | A managed Kubernetes offering to deliver powerful tools, an intuitive user experience and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that you 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 service also has advanced capabilities around simplified cluster management, container security and isolation policies, the ability to design your own cluster, and integrated operational tools for consistency in deployment. Visit our Docs pages for pricing and support information. |