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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%
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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 Small Businesses (1-50 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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March 18, 2024
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
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.
- Simplified cluster management
- Security and isolation
- Scalability
- Setting up an IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service cluster can be complex and involve managing different components.
- The learning curve can be a bit steep for new users.
- Managing resources can sometimes be a challenge.
September 05, 2023
Cost effective and easy to provision and manage
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.
- automatic load balancer service
- out of the box compatibilities
- easy to provision clusters via terraform and UI
- namespace container registry compatibilites
- IKS version upgrade with terraform with zero down time - no documentation
- Interactive IKS documentation help while deploying using UI - steps
February 09, 2023
Plays nicer with others than AWS Fargate and ECS, however has many many moving parts
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.
- Cluster IPs
- secure networking
- compatibility with multiple CSPs
- greater configuration than dockers
- requires more user management
- steep learning curve
- susceptibility for malicious attacks due to large surface area
February 08, 2023
IBM Kubernetes is good
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:
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
- Manages Kubernetes deployments with ease
- Spin up pods really fast
- good access control to share limited levels of access
- Installation fails during container creation due to a Docker 18.03.1 issue
- If you roll back to version 3.2.0 from a fix pack version, the version file can still show the fix pack version
- If you roll back to version 3.2.0 from a fix pack version, the Status column on the Helm releases page in the console might not show the status properly for some Helm releases
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.
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.
- deployment automation
- speed when shipping features
- help us iterate faster
- I constantly get this error even when everything is well configured prefect.exceptions.AuthorizationError: [{'path': ['auth_info'], 'message': 'AuthenticationError: Forbidden', 'extensions': {'code': 'UNAUTHENTICATED'}}]
- Then sometimes the error disapear without changine anything, happened twice to me. Should there be an issue with the authentication service? Please let's improve or let users know why this may be happening.
- Improve the UX in the browse console when removing many images at once
- UX on the process of installing KeyCloack operator
January 15, 2023
Excellent service
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.
- Automated scaling and management of containerized workloads: IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service allows for easy scaling of resources based on demand, which helps to optimize performance and reduce costs. It also provides robust management features for maintaining the health and availability of the deployed applications.
- Seamless integration with other IBM Cloud services: IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service can easily integrate with other IBM Cloud services such as IBM Watson, IBM Db2, and IBM Cloud Object Storage, making it simple to build and deploy applications that leverage these services.
- High availability and disaster recovery: IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides built-in high availability and disaster recovery features, such as automatic failover and self-healing capabilities, to ensure the availability of the deployed applications. This helps to minimize downtime and ensure that the applications are always available to the users.
- Limited customization options: While IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides a wide range of features, it may lack the level of customization that some users may need. For example, it may be difficult to customize the Kubernetes control plane and nodes to specific requirements. This can be an issue for users who have unique use cases or need a more customized environment.
- Limited support for different Kubernetes versions: IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service currently supports a limited number of Kubernetes versions and this can be a limitation for users who are running applications on older versions of Kubernetes.
- Limited support for non-IBM Cloud environments: IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is primarily designed for use with IBM Cloud, and while it can be used with other cloud providers, the integration and support may not be as seamless. This can be an issue for users who are running a multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environment and need a more integrated solution.
December 24, 2022
Smooth scaling Infrastruture.
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.
- Pod re-starts and maintain quality of service.
- Scaling at infrastructure level.
- Readily available hardware resources.
- Availability of more GPU resources.
- More selection of operating systems.
December 05, 2022
IBM Kubernetes - the perfect container service
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.
- Built in integration from the IBM cloud console
- Store persistent data
- Easily manage worker modes of the same flavor with worker pools.
- Reduce cluster downtime
- Reaching to technical team for issues is a bit tedious job
- Some features requires professional users
- Needs multi region deploy service
November 29, 2022
Perfect Cloud Container Management Product and very Functional Cloud Services Automation Solution.
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.
- Stable Cloud features.
- Easy initial tool implementation.
- The data protection capability is excellent.
- My deployment was not that simple process to configure.
- Reaching the technical team responsible for any technical issue assistant is not easy.
- Adjusting some Cloud advance features requires a professional user.
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.
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
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[.]
November 28, 2021
Overall user satisfaction review for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 9 out of 10
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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
June 25, 2021
My Experience With IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Score 8 out of 10
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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.
- 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
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
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 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.