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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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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. |
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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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October 09, 2019
IBM Cloud Kubernetes is an excellent container management system
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.
October 07, 2019
IBM Cloud better and simple
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
August 05, 2019
k8s features at IBM Cloud
We use Kubernetes in a production environment to stream millions of events per second with real-time data ingestion apps. Kubernetes has an acceptable learning curve and allows us to manage all our microservice containers.
- Highly scalable
- Great documentation
- Makes it a lot easier to establish effective CI/CD pipelines
- If you have Lite account you can't create service with LoadBalancer, only NodePort is available
- Long waiting times to deploy the service
July 16, 2019
Good place to start using Kubernetes
We use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service in order to get high availability in some simple web applications that are relevant to our daily work. This is a challenge to my organization because we don't have enough human and computational resources to spend in order to create and support a more advanced set up with those services.
- The tutorials are detailed and easy to follow.
- The applications are easy to support and manage. IBM's interface shows important information properly.
- It takes lees than 1 hour to get a working Kubernetes cluster!
- Some parts of the tutorials need to be upgraded.
- Knowledge of IBM console and configuration may be needed.
- IBM's interfaces interaction with logs and Kubernetes configuration could be upgraded.
July 02, 2019
A review by a current Kubernetes user
We use it to run CPU intensive workloads and UI websites.
- Ease of use
- No need to install
- Bundles billing with other services
- Is the billing still a minimum of one hour? Even if the worker only used it for 20 mins?
- Long start up time for the workers
- Slow UI
We are using IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service in our DevOps department. It automates our whole process of software development. We also take advantage of the canary versions of our web applications.
- Rich features.
- Easy GUI.
- IBM Cloud command-line interface.
- Optimization of IBM Cloud command-line interface. Sometimes it takes more time to get a response.
- Further explanations are required in the documentation.
- Optimization of web page load.
May 29, 2019
Rely on K8s
We are using the IBM K8s Service to handle user-submitted private data. K8s can be used to better distribute workloads. IBM Kubernetes Service has been chosen for processing speed and for a faster network. Deploying is more convenient than with a VM, but it does not have the stability of a traditional VM.
- Performance is sufficient.
- A smooth network.
- Web interface included.
- Kubernetes!
- Not very stable.
- Price.
- Deployment speed.
May 24, 2019
IBM K8 made our batch processing great, again!
We are migrating our current application from IBM Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes. We grew out of CF and needed more compute power, therefore we turned to Kubernetes. Currently, we are using it as the primary architecture for our UI and a few of our complex processing processes (pseudo batch processing). We are implementing it for this one client, but we have other clients on Kubernetes on other cloud platforms. The application that it is running supports 300 million dollars in business for this company. The solution is only for a single subset of a larger department. Many pieces of the application are still in Cloud Foundry; we are still in the process of migrating.
- It scales really well
- Depending on how you measure, it is cheaper and more powerful than Cloud Foundry
- Deployments are fast, comparably.
- It is very unreliable. We have seen nodes and machines randomly go down without warning or helpful error messages.
- Documentation is not great.
- The autoscale and documentation on autoscale are not good. We had to write/re-write our own and as a result; we found a lot of issues that caused problems.
May 16, 2019
It does what it says it does
We used this cloud provider in order to learn how to correctly use containers and to deploy some simple apps. Even though the complexity of the applications was low, we wanted to have high availability at a low cost and low technical difficulty.
- It's pretty easy to use.
- Gives you multiple options of machines to use for your Kubernetes cluster.
- Has a nice variety of server regions.
- You can't access your virtual machines in order to have more control of your cluster.
- The deployment of a cluster takes too long.
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service helps us to create pods without managing the actual installation of Kubernetes. We can also have a secure environment in which we can implement a CI CD workflow for the Docker containers.
- Deploying Wordpress-based applications.
- Deploying Jenkins web applications.
- CI CD deployment of Docker containers using custom source code.
- Interface for using Kubernetes Service.
- Deployment support for Docker containers.
- Integration of Kubernetes with other DevOps tools.
May 09, 2019
From IBM Cloud Foundry user
Mainly we are using IBM Cloud Foundry as a service platform but some readily available installations (for example Artifactory) are installed on Kubernetes service.
- Service monitoring
- Command line tooling (ibmcloud ks)
- Don't have suggestions yet
May 06, 2019
IBM Cloud Kubernetes pros and cons
We use the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service for the deployment of the blockchain application. We are doing research on how blockchain can be employed in real-world applications. We thought that cloud containers would be better for deploying blockchains and working on them. IBM's Kubernetes Service is pretty good but sometimes it suddenly sends an email saying that there was an unexpected issue and it'll be closed for some time.
- Easy-to-use interface.
- Good for deploying web applications and pretty good performance.
- IBM Cloud Kubernetes offers built-in logging and monitoring tools.
- CPU utilization is a big factor in autoscaling.
- Little harder to set up compared to Docker, but IBM made it a little easier.
- Breakdown of service may occur at any time, which leads to malfunction of applications.
- Service issues occur at unknown times which can make it hard to monitor.
April 22, 2019
Room to improve
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service supports the core of our organization. It has solved the problem of being cloud agnostic for most of what we use Kubernetes Services for.
- It's Kubernetes
- The underlying platform that is BlueMix needs work. You can get to dead ends in the GUI with no reference back to "home."
- Provisioning of underlying clusters is not automated.
- Removal of hardware is not intuitive.
April 22, 2019
K8S
It resolved all the Cloud Foundry issues while deploying the unwired UI when updated to Meteor 1.8.
- Scales really well
- Deploys fast
- Resolves Cloud Foundry issues
- Goes down once in a while.
- Flipping between routes don't work so well at times.
April 19, 2019
IKS
We are working with IBM to list our product in the IBM Marketplace, so we are using IBM Kubernetes Service to deploy OpenServiceBroker and host it there so that we can integrate with the IBM catalog and Billing services.
- Well integrated container registry
- Support for ingress controller and public domain name for service deployed on IKS
- Good UX
- Provisioning time for worker nodes can come down.
- Integrating using programming languages like Go can be helpful, i.e improving the bluemix-sdk.
- Sometimes the web portal is too slow, needs improvement in service uptime.
March 22, 2019
IBM Kubernetes is awesome!
Using Kubernetes in our company allows us to manage multiple environments easily. In our company, we have two major products with three environments (dev, staging, and production). Kubernetes provides a concept of namespaces that allows us to isolates resources by environments. The best aspect with Kubernetes is the ability to use Docker in a secure and reliable way.
- Isolate environments at low cost.
- Fault-tolerant.
- Full control on our resources.
- Steep learning curve
- Can be tricky to setup sometime
- Monitoring is not completely set up at start
February 21, 2019
Why we run Kube in IBM Cloud.
IBM Kubernetes Service is our one-stop for running all our Java services and NodeJs services. Currently, we are running 16 services inside our Kube cluster. It hosts and runs the application that collects the IOT information from our bots and stores it in IBM Cloudant.
- Quick Updates, Highly Scalable. We keep adding nodes when needed.
- Never spent a minute on any maintenance activities for our Kube Cluster.
- Zero Downtimes in last 2 years.
- Helm inventory is somewhat lacking.
- Little confusing when it comes to PVCs.
- Networking between our Kube Clusters and our other VMs is very difficult due to lack of documentation
February 15, 2019
Kubernetes adoption
We are using it for migrating work loads into the Cloud.
- Gives the scale we need
- Bundled with Dev Ops it becomes easier to deploy and operate
- Gives us the portability across cloud providers
- Dev Ops reference templates are not available for organizations to quickly adopt
- Organizations want to focus on developing business features but wanted a pipeline which takes the code all the way to deployment without much human intervention. Wanted to see quick set up of Kubernetes platform along with Dev Ops capabilities as Service.
February 14, 2019
Love the product
We use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service in our IoT Platform. Currently it isn't being used across different parts of the organization. In our IoT platform, we use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to orchestrate about 200 micro services that are deployed on IBM Containers. Because of Kubernetes we no longer need to manage scaling and it's super easy to deploy the application.
- Help to orchestrate the containers on with we have deployed our micro services
- Auto scaling
- It makes it super easy to deploy applications
- Much better integration with the log analysis
- Make it easy to retrieve the logs and search through them
February 14, 2019
Great container offer!
We are using Kubernetes to manage our entire IoT backend services, globally. It’s a fairly complex implementation with performance and security requirements which IBM is fully delivering.
- Highly configurable
- Resilient
- Secure
- Pricing compared to competitors
February 13, 2019
IBM product review
We used it for a POC of a mobile app back-end service during container technology evaluation.
- Easy to setup
- Strong support
- Fully managed
- Not easy to integrate with in-house tools
- Lack of prebuilt functionality
- Not easy to install
September 11, 2017
Using Bluemix as the IoT platform for our clients
We are an IBM Bluemix implementation partner. We use our platform for proofs of concept, demos, and training, etc. So we are in the business for providing Bluemix solutioins for others, there are no business problems which Bluemix addressess internally at the moment or in the future, if you are not counting the license sales.
- Rapid implementation for IoT platform
- Rapid implementation of a micro service environment
- Deep learning facilities available in the value stream
- Surprisingly complex to implement some features, like port forwarding within the PaaS architecture without implementing IaaS layer features.
Bluemix is being used to create a platform for the delivery of electronic scheduling services.
Bluemix gave us the ability to iterate on multiple initiatives and micro-services with limited resources.
- Prepared environment - the preparation of the platform was easy for us to spin up
- Selection of services that we would implement. Limited need to search for varied sources
- Our developers felt that the documentation was difficult to navigate. Time spent in the platform cleared the problem for the team.
July 19, 2017
Bluemixed-bag of a review!
All the micro-services that are running to keep our VoIP platform alive are deployed over Bluemix. It provides seamless integration with our deployment model and reduces much of the hassle involved in the deployment process. Compared to a privately hosted infrastructure, a cloud solution the likes of Bluemix provides more flexibility while reducing cash burn.
- Automation
- Orchestration
- Deployment
- User Experience
- Lack of a large worldwide availability zone options unlike competitions.
- Certain clutter
June 26, 2017
Bluemix and Watson, great choice for Enterprise AI
We use Bluemix primarily as a way to access IBM Watson's suite of AI APIs, for our own use as well as proposing as a solution for other companies. Watson is one of several AI options we can support with our chatbot AIs, and is especially suitable for issues where security is important and a local install may be required.
- Local install options.
- Security.
- Often for large companies IBM is already on the network and it is an easier sell.
- Kubernetes is comparatively new there, needs maturing.
- Getting your app available as a third party is a longish process, needs streamlining.
- Still some shifting around and renaming of elements of the Watson APIs that can throw off development, hopefully, all is now set.