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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

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What is IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service?

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…

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Excellent service

10 out of 10
January 15, 2023
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  • Container Orchestration (13)
    8.3
    83%
  • Cluster Management (13)
    7.9
    79%
  • Security and Isolation (13)
    7.5
    75%
  • Storage Management (13)
    7.5
    75%

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What is IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service?

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…

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Product Details

What is IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service?

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 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.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported Countrieshttps://console.bluemix.net/docs/containers/cs_regions.html#regions-and-zones
Supported LanguagesA 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.

Reviewers rate Container Orchestration highest, with a score of 8.3.

The most common users of IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services help us in tasks such as managing and deploying containerized services and microservices-based applications efficiently, it also has an orchestration layer for workloads and automation to easily scale and maintain the deployed applications. The IBM product addresses the principal necessity helping us to focus on developing the applications without worrying about the virtualization layer.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a container management platform, I use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to deploy and manage containerized applications on the cloud. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service allows me to package software code, along with all dependencies, so it can run reliably on any system. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service helps me to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our container infrastructure runs on IBM IKS which is a complete application layer with a tech stack of ruby on rails, javascript, GraphQL, and node applications, and hosts an in-memory Redis cluster for caching layer use. IBM provides pure Kubernetes(no touch-ups), which allows us to use the system easily with compatibilites.
Jon Brizuela | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kubernetes has proven effective for orchestrating workloads. Have limited expansion with deploying on a limited number of nodes but it has had a streamlined process without any hiccups. Haven't had any issues with Kube managing deployments and keeping the required amount of replicas running. Cluster IPs are helpful for data reliability. Utilized it as part of AWS EKS which has some limitations with configuration options, but it has more compatibility than AWS's native ECS.
February 08, 2023

IBM Kubernetes is good

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The use cases for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service include deployment and management of cloud-native applications, microservices, and containerized applications.

For our use case, The business problems addressed by IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service include:
  • The complexity of managing large-scale applications
  • Increased time and resources required for infrastructure management
  • Inefficient application deployment and scaling
  • Ensuring consistency in application environments
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to secure multi-region Kubernetes clusters.
Our main problem was related to tasks managment, we needed a contenization tool that could help to manage the entire lifecycle of our system and therefore easily manage our tasks. Kubernetes was the best solution so far, and switching to using both IBM Cloud services + Kubernetes made it more easier.
January 15, 2023

Excellent service

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my organization, we use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to manage and deploy our microservices-based application. It allows us to easily scale and maintain the application, as well as automate the roll-out of updates. The product addresses the need for efficient management of containerized workloads and enables us to focus on developing and improving our application, rather than managing the infrastructure. The scope of our use case is primarily for our internal business operations, but we are also exploring the possibility of using it for customer-facing applications in the future.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use IKS for container orchestration for Docker based micro services in product portfolio. The product is a micro-service that uses IKS in multiple data centers having up to 18 nodes. From communication perspective, we use internal (within IKS) as well as external communication (through Ingress/Egress). The deployment model is automated. We use multiple technologies for IKS based microservices for our workloades but most content is based on JVM or JVM based languages. <br><br>We have traffic that goes beyound XXm / Hr and it's exposed to external live customers.
Ravi Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have to work with scaling deep learning software, especially training at scale over CPU and GPUs. I use Kubernetes in the IBM cloud to achieve that over CPUs. The ease is a production-ready environment. I don't have to worry about all nitty-gritty details of infrastructure and can focus on scaling my models, dataset, and application.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used IBM Kubernetes as a part of our curriculum in college, we used it for deployment of our containerize applications, while using the service we had some small issues like the service was not connected and all other than that the service works fine and we were happy to use it easily.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team and I utilizes this service to deploy our core IAAS services to host platform services as well as core infrastructure services that provide customers with access to computer, network, and storage resources. Kubernetes is used as the main orchestration layer for our services through the use of ingresses, Kubernetes DNS service, and various K8s resource types such as deployments, stateful sets and daemon sets. Additionally, Etcd is used to maintain the life cycle and state of customer resources such as virtual machines, vpcs, subnets, volumes, etc ...
Mike Chegge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services allows the user to manage many different data with multiple types across the entire infrastructure and its data protection functionalities are excellent. Highly effective solution for data archiving and very stable on multiple data analytics creation and also reports distribution through IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services is perfect and the interface configuration was very easy on my first time.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Lavish Garg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
August 18, 2021

Kubernetes review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
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