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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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- Security and Isolation (14)7.575%
- Storage Management (14)7.575%
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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 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.
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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| 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. |
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 8.2.
The most common users of IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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% |
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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
January 15, 2020
Pretty simple and easy to get started with K8s service
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.
January 13, 2020
Kubernetes for proof of concepts
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.
December 14, 2019
Kubernetes: your go to container service on IBM
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.
December 06, 2019
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Detailed Review
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.
December 02, 2019
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services serves as an accelerator for innovation using micro-services
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.
November 26, 2019
IKS: Early adopter but needs some polish
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.
November 21, 2019
Impressed with IBM Cloud Kubernetes in a workshop.
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
November 04, 2019
IBM Cloud: the KUBERNETES of Kubernetes Service Providers!
Used by my DevOps department addressing our transition towards a CI/CD paradigm for our enterprise applications.
- Seamless integration with IBM cloud registry and CLI
- Faster cluster provisioning on the IBM Cloud
October 17, 2019
My Kube
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
October 09, 2019
IBM Kubernetes Review
It used by my application team. We use it to move current applications from on-premise to cloud.
- It provides nice orchestration for the docker containers.
- Pretty straightforward to use.
- The technical support procedure needs to be improved.