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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…
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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.
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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Integrations
- IBM Cloud Container Registry
- IBM Cloud Developer Tools
- Istio
- IBM Cloud DevOps Insights
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Competitors
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Amazon EKS
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 50% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 50% |
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. |
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January 14, 2022
Good container orchestration platform from IBM
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is being used by a department. We run different backend microservices in it to serve our consumers. It is adopted to ease the management of containers in the cloud. Since it's a managed service, we don't need to spend much effort from an operation perspective.
- Support different regions and zones
- Easy for provisioning
- Easy to scale
- Monitoring has room for improvement.
- Cluster identity with random IDs are difficult to memorize.
We mostly use Kube CLI to interact with Kubernetes. IBM CLI is only used for granting access to the cluster. The GUI is nice to monitor the workload in the cluster. However, since we try to automate monitoring and alerting, we don't use the GUI that often.
- Online training
January 08, 2022
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Review
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.
December 07, 2021
Scaling applications and creating new businesses
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service removed the requirement to make application-specific configurations for each server and enabled engineers to iterate faster, knowing that what is shipped and runs in production is exactly what they built and tested. No more going through many steps of cloning multiple repos, pulling configurations, and installing lots of components locally. It greatly increased the infrastructure and the speed to launch new products and features into the marketplace.
- Quickly scaled our infrastructure[.]
- Streamlined application release process[.]
- The environment is now standardized to allow to quickly transition to different projects[.]
- Since it's very powerful it can be an overkill for applications that do not require a distributed architecture[.]
- It can be difficult to migrate applications to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, and at times the entire architecture has to be refactored[.]
- Online training
- in-person training
December 06, 2021
It enabled an immutable infrastructure and now we can ship our features faster than before
We adopted IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service for container orchestration and we migrated our entire infrastructure to Kubernetes, starting with our website applications and concluding with the backend of the operations. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service unlocked our confidence in being able to deploy quickly, learn, and even at times when we make a mistake, we can roll it back without any issue. After implementing this system we quickly started to realize the benefit of having seamless upgrades and easy rollbacks without any issue and now we can experiment with existing applications and create new services blazingly fast.
- It lets developers work in the same environment that the application will be running in production
- It made it easier to test, easier to refine, and easier to deploy
- Helped engineers embrace the DevOps mindset as they built software
- The language to define containers is initially hard to understand
- Online training
- in-person training
December 05, 2021
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Review
We mostly use [it] for our applications and it seamlessly performs well and executes the tasks for scaling with [fewer] efforts.
- Scaling and flexibility
- Automating the environment
- Monitoring health
- Security
- UI
- Pricing is bit expensive
- Less clouds to execute
- Not much effective on windows
We have mostly [used] CLI because of the confusing GUI. We have done integrations with cluster management.
- Online training
December 01, 2021
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is the basis for our flawless end-to-end developer experience
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service gives us a uniform API across heterogeneous resources to define our workloads and expand resources outside our infrastructure. It comes with built-in monitoring and logging for all the applications and the workloads that deploy in Kubernetes. Once we began migrating applications to Kubernetes, the result [was] immediate and we are able to ship ideas to production using a single consistent and declarative API.
- It is able to provide a reliable and scalable cluster infrastructure[.]
- Improved both operational and development efficiency[.]
- The Kubernetes-enabled cloud hosts all new development and microservices[.]
- The UI design is a bit inflexible[.]
- Steep learning curve. I find the community very supportive with this[.]
- Online training
November 28, 2021
Overall user satisfaction review for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is being used by our IT department. We have a business application and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service was very helpful when we were migrating the app from being in-house to the cloud. The platform is also very helpful when it comes to scaling the application. Scaling is not only easy but also affordable.
- It is affordable compared to competitors
- Auto updating of the Kubernetes version
- Great documentation.
- Generation time.
- Should make simple UI
- Pre-configured template
- Online training
- in-person training
November 25, 2021
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides a fully managed version of powerful orchestration software
We had been using IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for a long time for all of our compute workloads. When we moved to containerized deployments at scale, we looked for an orchestration system that we could use as well. Kubernetes is the gold standard for container orchestration software and we decided to go with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service since we use other IBM Cloud products.
- Kubernetes is fully managed
- Autoupdating of the Kubernetes version
- Managed container runtime
- Steep learning curve
We mostly use the client APIs, but the GUI does look nice, especially for a less technical team.
- Online training
November 21, 2021
Please make free tier Kubernetes service the most usable/serviceable across cloud vendors
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.
August 18, 2021
Kubernetes review
Migrating legacy apps to the native cloud. It provides a simple way to progressively remove code from monolithic ones while providing all cloud benefits like autoscaling or data integrity. IBM Cloud [Kubernetes Service] makes it very easy with great documentation and support.
- Quick learning curve.
- Fast deploypment.
- Great documentation.
- Excellent customer support.
- Generation time.
- Fixing issues.
CLI is easy to learn and makes it easy to automate deployment scenartios. GUI is nice but load times and responsiveness can be improved.
- Online training
June 25, 2021
My Experience With IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is being used by our IT department. We have a business applications and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service was very helpful when we were migrating the app from being in-house to the cloud. The platform is also very helpful when it comes to scaling the application. Scaling is not only easy but also affordable.
- It is affordable compared to competitors
- Scaling is easy
- It is reliable
- Good user interface
- Quick deployment
- Not suitable for newbies
- Documentation is not the best
The GUI is easy to use and understand and the CLI is smooth and effective when it comes to executing commands.
- Online training
May 17, 2021
Best Kubernetes Tool in town
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is utilized by our startup to host our application. It allows us to scale up easily our applications and is cost-effective.
- Easy and fast deployment
- Reliability
- Cost effective
- Expensive
- Bad Logging
- Not available in all regions
The GUI is easy to use and is extremely simple. We have used the CLI feature though we need not require the API or may require it in future cases. The CLI is also smooth and is able to execute most of the commands.
- Online training
May 13, 2021
Best Kubernetes Serviced in IBM Cloud
It is been used for a client to build web apps and business applications and also to have resilience, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling services. It is also used for matrices to view logs and monitor service health checks, security, and the consistency of applications. Providing the consultancy to different financial clients who are outsourcing the services and designing the workloads for their applications and operational task.
IBM Kubernetes services are very good in terms of reliability and consistent operation with reducing management. It is easy to distribute the clusters and manage the services easily. IBM services make the task quite easy to do it all in one place.
IBM Kubernetes services are very good in terms of reliability and consistent operation with reducing management. It is easy to distribute the clusters and manage the services easily. IBM services make the task quite easy to do it all in one place.
- Reliable managed kube service to operate.
- Easy to deploy and manage.
- Less code
- Best on the operational side by less work.
- Security
- Great customer service
- Adding more service logs
- Matrices graph
No doubt IBM Kubernetes has the best cluster management transparent dashboard I have come across so far and it is easy to understand and build the services to monitor and have a unified overview—a holistic view you can say.
- Online training
May 02, 2021
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Review
We give various blockchain programming interface administration answers for our customer for an intermediary casting a ballot application utilized by significant stock exchange organizations in UK and USA. Our blockchain programming interface was facilitated and oversees inside the IBM [Cloud Kubernetes Service]. The [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service] has been utilized all over the office among the organization.
- Easy to access on demand
- Scalable
- Flexible
- Need to improve [the] support system
- Should make simple UI
It is not difficult to convey new applications and the documentation is, generally, simple to peruse which makes the simplicity of utilizing the CLI more helpful for all.
- Online training
We host our application running on a CentOS container on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. We have been using the service since IBM Cloud originally launched. We appreciated the flexibility and scalability that IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provide us. Since we are quite small, the Kubernetes service is only used currently within my project group.
- Great flexibility
- Worker node management
- Awesome support
- Difficult to master fast
- Sometimes buggy
- Container gets reset from time to time
The CLI and API have been developed rapidly and we find it annoying to change logics in our deploying script all the time. IBM Cloud Kubernetes provides good documentation and it is relatively easy to pick up updates and new APIs as well as digging out which one is deprecated. Overall, we think it adds a little bit of hassle in cluster management due to this fact.
February 09, 2021
IKS best goes with IBM blockchain platform
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.
- Well Managed node and dashboard
- Easy to access public and private endpoint
- Easy to upgrade and downgrade node pool anytime it's been needed
- Well Managed security and certificates
- 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
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
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Review
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 09, 2020
IBM Kubernetes Review
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.
April 08, 2020
Try using the container service of IBM Cloud Kubernetes
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.
March 22, 2020
Smooth, friendly alternative to Google Cloud
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
March 04, 2020
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Review
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
Newbies in IBM cloud after disappointed at GCP
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.
February 26, 2020
Enhance your ISTIO service mesh with IBM CKS
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is part of our testing environment for multi-cloud projects. By using ISTIO mesh to span to multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers, we can test the HA capabilities of the deployments and offer high HA solutions to our customers.
Also, by integrating IBM CKS to Google Cloud using Google Anthos GKE Connect, we can manage all our deployments in one place. IBM CKS offers one of the most powerful Kubernetes services: stable, powerful, easy to use and HIGH availability.
Also, by integrating IBM CKS to Google Cloud using Google Anthos GKE Connect, we can manage all our deployments in one place. IBM CKS offers one of the most powerful Kubernetes services: stable, powerful, easy to use and HIGH availability.
- Easy to use and configure
- ISTIO and KNATIVE installation by just clicking one button.
- Use of CONTAINERD (CRI-O)
- Choose the OS of the nodes
IBM's CKS GUI is not quite intuitive. In my opinion, it lacks a lot of useful information like performance or letting the users tune ISTIO configuration.
- Online training
- no training
February 18, 2020
Kubernetes Review
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is being used mainly for educational purposes. We use it to show the students some use cases regarding things such as a VPN server using squid, or an HTTP server using Nginx.
- Has lots of data centers around the world.
- Easy management.
- Price could be lower.
The GUI tool is useless whereas the CLI is really useful.