Knowledge orchestrator IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service platform
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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
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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Review IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services help us in tasks such as managing and deploying containerized services and microservices-based applications …
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 …
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, …
Good Managed Kubernetes offering if you already using IBM cloud services
Explored IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to understand its capabilities in case customers wants help with it
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 …
IBM Kubernetes is good
The use cases for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service include deployment and management of cloud-native applications, microservices, and …
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is doing great so far, but I believe there's still much to do (making it auto scalabile, make it more user friendly)
We use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to secure multi-region Kubernetes clusters.
Our main problem was related to tasks managment, we needed …
Our main problem was related to tasks managment, we needed …
Excellent service
In my organization, we use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to manage and deploy our microservices-based application. It allows us to easily …
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Review for Microservices Use Case
I use IKS for container orchestration for Docker based micro services in product portfolio. The product is a micro-service that uses IKS …
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 …
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 …
The Great Power of Kube on IBM Cloud
My team and I utilizes this service to deploy our core IAAS services to host platform services as well as core infrastructure services …
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 …
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 …
How IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Differs From Its Competitors
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
Yes we started with the GUI but have become more comfortable with CLI.
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
Yes, we make extensive use of the Watson catalog, including the new Watsonx functionality to access artificial intelligence models. The ability to integrate these services allow us to bring new functionality to market more quickly.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
In my organization, We have benefited from these capabilities provided by IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, starting with the GUI that is easy to interact with and predictable for new users' interactions, it helps to reduce the training times and create new deployments without needing deep …
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
In my organization, we use third-party services provided by IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services. The largest range of available services allowed us to improve and think about new deployments and integrations that we can leverage using the platform to integrate and extend the functionality of the …
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service GUI has been very helpful. Having a visual representation of cluster resources (deployments, pods, services, and namespaces) makes it easier to see everything at a glance and identify any potential issues. It allows for automating repetitive tasks and using …
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
Third party services can simplify IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service cluster management. Many offer user-friendly GUIs and preconfigured functions, which can speed up deployment. Specialized support is often available -- and third party services often integrate well with other services.
Disadvantages …
Disadvantages …
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
Our company has an opensource friendly mindset and always integrates products that are compatible with opensource for better to be on industry standards. We use tools that benefit our customers, at this time we are not using any IBM tools for continuous integration. We are open to trying new tools …
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
We did try log services from IBM which didn't fit our use case, so we moved to custom solutions. The plug-and-play services management is very user-friendly but faces a few stability issues. It all depends on the use case and requirements, but I like the Idea of third-party integrations.
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We use IBM IKS for app layer and IBM virtual servers for different use cases(ex: global caching of our applications using redis clusters). IBM bare metal servers and object storage for …
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
GUI interface could be better. Haven't used API integration with continuous integration tools
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
We used integrations with cloud services briefly. I think this integration is the main advantage for customers and one of the main reasons why they choose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
Serverless Kubernetes has helped with automation and taking away day-to-day operations. Really just have to be concerned with managing infrastructure with an API.
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
Good experience with AWS Fargate with AWS's typical pay-as-you-go pricing model in comparison to more unwieldy Kubernetes. Both have helped to deploy applications quickly, however, Fargate is more limited.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
CLIs allow users to automate repetitive tasks and execute commands quickly, resulting in increased productivity and faster completion of tasks. CLIs offer more control over the system compared to graphical user interfaces (GUIs) as they allow users to directly interact with the system's core …
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
I have not used these products, although it makes it easier that they are available if we want them. For instance, Third-party services often offer cost-effective solutions compared to developing in-house solutions. But on the other hand, Relying on third-party services can lead to dependence on …
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
We benefit from CLI and GUI but we're planning for our future projects to start using the API options
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
Haven't used them yet but will certainly be needed for our next projects
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
In my organization, we have benefited greatly from the cluster management capabilities provided by IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. The GUI option has been particularly useful for novice users, as it has made it much easier for them to manage and deploy applications without needing a deep …
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
In my organization, we have taken advantage of the third-party services provided by IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. The wide range of services available, such as weather data and identity access and management, has allowed us to enrich our application with additional functionality and improve the …
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
We have used IKS UI for general usage as well as CLI for automating our CI/CD tasks. We have used API option but not in production at the moment. <br><br>IKS GUI is simple and easy to use.
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
We use may other IBM Cloud services such as IBM Cloud Container Registry Service, IBM Cloud Logging & Monitoring Service, IBM Cloud Objec Storage Serivice. All services are easy to use and can be provisioned on demand. Our most use cases require auto provisioning, security and scalability …
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
I have used a few third-party services. I use them mainly for competitive analysis and proving parity in my results testing with another similar tool.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
My organization has benefited from the use of cluster management, with the GUI and as well as the CLI
Also we have benefitted from the use of auto scaling during many projects.
Also we have benefitted from the use of auto scaling during many projects.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
My organization has significantly benefited from the use of the CLI and API, not so much the GUI. It has made it easily especially for operations engineers to easily automate tasks via scripting existing CLI and API commands. Our CI/CD team was able of taking advantage of APIs to create build and …
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
Sysdig and LogDNA are the two main third-party services my team utilizes along with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. They are exclusively used for monitoring/diagnostics and logging respectively as current IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service capabilities for these features out of the box don't provide …
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
Through IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services API functionalities its quite easy and faster on multiple project data migration and also data modeling which helps save a lot of business time and cost effectively. The data security through IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services secure channels is very simple to …
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services accessibility to the other party services helps on big data processing and Cloud services Automation for time management and ensuring the data security is effective. The data processing process are also managed securely through the third party services and they help …
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The above platforms from IBM community are more easy on first implementation and the setting of their features is also very simple. The data processing functionalities with the above three IBM tools helps save …
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
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.
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By using multiple IBM Cloud products, we managed to focus on our own business applications development, while leaving the infrastructure and operations work to the cloud.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
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.
Operational features
This has allowed scaling benefits as well as reducing downtime with any one worker node.
Implementation Insights
The implementation went pretty smoothly, but took some time for configuration.
IBM Cloud Support Resource Usage
Central Documentation and Learning Hub
IBM Cloud Docs
Ability to check uptime status for IBM Cloud products
IBM Cloud product demos and tutorial videos
Yes, I was interested in learning more about how to use the IBM Cloud Kubernetes to deploy my machine learning application and the documentation …
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
We have mostly [used] CLI because of the confusing GUI. We have done integrations with cluster management.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
We mostly use the client APIs, but the GUI does look nice, especially for a less technical team.
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Using multiple products within the same cloud ecosystem can be highly beneficial. Oftentimes, these products are built off of one another so there is a high level of integration between them. For example, IBM Cloud Kubernetes…
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
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.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
CLI is easy to learn and makes it easy to automate deployment scenartios. GUI is nice but load times and responsiveness can be improved.
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
I have used block and object storage which are very close to competitors. The key here is QoS and support which is a step above the competition.
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Simple deployment, easy to scale.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
The GUI is easy to use and understand and the CLI is smooth and effective when it comes to executing commands.
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
Personally, I have not used any third-party services as we mostly have IBM products.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
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.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
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.
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
IBM services provide many tools and access to many cloud services and its integration with open source and third-party applications interact perfectly well.
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
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.
IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services
I can say from past experience that Watson's outsider administrations were noteworthy out-of-box, and better [than] other cloud-local 'man-made intelligence' administrations. The advancement of information followed intellectual highlights that I expected to discover, which was an indication of …
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We have had the option to quickly investigate the containerization of our variety of cloud similitudes, including IBM blockchain administrations. The impact in …
IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management
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 …
Operational features
For a large organisation like us, it is crucial to make sure that the system is up and running without interruptions. We were aware of the fact that IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service could provide great redundancy and SLA by deploying a single zone cluster with multiple workers as well as a multi zone …
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- Container Orchestration (14)8.282%
- Cluster Management (14)7.777%
- Security and Isolation (14)7.575%
- Storage Management (14)7.575%
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Knowledge Orchestrator (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
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Consumer Services Company, 501-1000 employees
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Container Management
Features commonly found in Container Management software.
7.5
Avg 7.8
- 7.5Security and Isolation(14) Ratings
Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.
- 8.2Container Orchestration(14) Ratings
The product’s ability to automate networking, deployment, scaling, and other container management functions.
- 7.7Cluster Management(14) Ratings
Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.
- 7.5Storage Management(14) Ratings
Product’s ability to allocate storage resources and manage both temporary and persistent data.
- 7.4Resource Allocation and Optimization(14) Ratings
Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.
- 6.8Discovery Tools(14) Ratings
Product provides methods (such as URIs or sortable lists) to easily find and access jobs, nodes, containers, or clusters.
- 7.6Update Rollouts and Rollbacks(14) Ratings
Product provides tools or functionality to deliver updates to containerized applications in ways that minimize the impact of errors, and revert updates that cause problems.
- 7.7Self-Healing and Recovery(13) Ratings
Product can be configured to automatically restart, replace, reschedule, kill, and validate jobs, containers, nodes, or clusters.
- 7Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging(14) Ratings
Product provides tools to manage performance, health, and other data related to containers or clusters. This could include analytics tools, logging tools, live dashboards, etc.
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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.
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Integrations
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Competitors
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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January 14, 2022
Good container orchestration platform from IBM
Verified User
Manager in Engineering
Consumer Electronics Company, 10,001+ employees
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.
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is well suited to run microservices workload that requires high availability, scaling, with good performance. Combined with other IBM Cloud services (e.g. API Connect), it's very easy to set up a working environment in a short while. Comparing with other cloud providers, IBM seems to have fewer locations. If your service wants to be deployed closer to the end-users, it's worth checking out the available locations.
- Reduce the human cost for managing Kubernetes.
- Cheaper than setting up in our own data centers.
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.
- IBM Cloud Functions
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- IBM Db2 on Cloud
- IBM Lift
- IBM Watson IoT
By using multiple IBM Cloud products, we managed to focus on our own business applications development, while leaving the infrastructure and operations work to the cloud.
It provides both GUI and CLI support. It's easy to provision, use, and operate.
Since we already use different IBM Cloud services, we don't want to move the Kubernetes service to another provider. That will increase the complexity.
30
We have two teams using IBM Kubernetes: backend team and ops team. Backend team work on the microservices for our consumer services, and they are deployed into IBM Kubernetes clusters. Ops team is managing the Kubernetes clusters, providing the necessary administration and maintenance.
5
We have SRE team providing the support. It requires different skills like infrastructure automation, capacity planning, monitoring, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, etc.
- container orchestration
- job scheduling
- autoscaling
- We have looked into multi-region clusters for better availability and performance
- Move more on-prem services into Kubernetes
- Use Kubernetes to run ad-hoc jobs
- No
- Online training
Good examples to understand Kubernetes and very detailed step-by-step documentation to follow.
January 08, 2022
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Review
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees
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.
A well-suited case is when we want to evaluate a new potential cloud service. It is less appropriate for situations where businesses already have one.
- It has led to more productive workflows.
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.
I've also worked with AWS and Google Cloud platform and I was curious about IBM Cloud's services.
10
IT
2
People who have prior experience with different cloud vendors and programmming
- App deployment
- monitoring
- Scaling
- saved money by having more automation
- Expand into other ibm services in the cloud
- redis
Not sure
This has allowed scaling benefits as well as reducing downtime with any one worker node.
The kubernetes web Terminal made it easy to manage the clusters and deploy containerized apps to the cluster directly from the web browser.
The implementation went pretty smoothly, but took some time for configuration.
No
Basic (free)
I just wanted to try it out
The documentation was detailed and well written.
- Central Documentation and Learning Hub
- IBM Cloud Docs
- Ability to check uptime status for IBM Cloud products
- IBM Cloud product demos and tutorial videos
Yes, I was interested in learning more about how to use the IBM Cloud Kubernetes to deploy my machine learning application and the documentation made the process much easier.
The self-guided support was solid, and there are plenty of online videos to guide first time users, but I think one area of improvement is a faster way to transfer a large quantity of files from our local machine to the cloud for storage (Aspera).
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.
1. Deploy a simple Python application with Kubernetes.
2. Build a smart WeChat robot with IBM Watson Assistant with Cloud Function.
3. Deploy a simple React application with Kubernetes.
- We have not yet fully utilized it to create a profit model.
- The event scheduling feature has also proved very useful.
We are still trying to make better use of these features.
We are also using the Azure test program generation.
Generally speaking, we do not have logging with LogDNA solutions in the production environment.
AWS Lambda may be more suitable for large companies that want to continuously access similar functions at a higher number / frequency, but for small teams with limited budgets, IBM Cloud Functions is a competitive choice.
- IBM Cloud Foundry
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
There is a learning curve equipped with Kubernetes. Without training, it may be difficult to proceed in the middle of the project.
React, ClusterControl
Kubernetes Pod clusters have a tendency to fail when they are first built. In most cases, the built-in Kubernetes functions will help you solve resource problems, such as storage and monitoring. You need to provide durable and reliable cloud storage, while also monitoring any network problems or failures.
Yes
Ease of use. Very intuitive. We have been looking for a product that allows us to orchestrate our docker containers in a way where it allows us to effectively scale our applications to production. It also provides us a way of monitoring all our infrastructure in a very clear concise way.
Basic (free)
I like the auto zoom function. It helps us not to worry too much about reliability, so we can focus on our core business.
A very powerful tool. Easily deploy and manage containerized applications. Fully secure and easy to automate and monitor your application, we have been using it for a year. We deployed JupyterHub once.
- IBM Cloud Docs
- Ability to check uptime status for IBM Cloud products
- Access to IBM and Developer communities through Stack Overflow or GitHub
- IBM Cloud product demos and tutorial videos
Have these resources has enabled me to locate more quickly how to operate correctly for program deployment.
Compared with other platforms, it takes too long to create a cluster. Even a free plan with only one node.
5
cloud foundoury ，Containers，Python application
3
Full-Stack DevOps Engineer， Software Engineer，DevOps Architect
- nginx
- fluentd
- jenkins
- Microservices architecture
- Lift and shift – from servers to cloud
- Machine learning and Kubernetes
- software development lifecycle
Not yet. I still need to evaluate the usage price with other providers.
Not Sure
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Third-party Reviews
So far it's been great and way easier to deploy with scalability.
We are moving business critical applications to the cloud，but as with anything new we will learn and see the value.
No
- Deploy applications
- Quick response
- Ease of use and scalability
- Support document reading difficulties
- Managed add-ons for Istio and Knative
Kubernetes is absolutely fantastic. The Kubernetes API is a great tool when it comes to automating a deployment pipeline. Deployments are not only more reliable, but also much faster, because we’re no longer dealing with VMs. Our builds and deployments have become more reliable because it’s easier to test and ship containers.
February 26, 2020
Enhance your ISTIO service mesh with IBM CKS
Verified User
Employee in Engineering
Computer & Network Security Company, 10,001+ employees
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
Well suited:
- DEV / QA / SIT deployments: You can use IBMCKS for DEV / QA or SIT environments. Since IBM CKS is a managed service, you can let the deveolping team to be in charge of the infraestructure.
- Multicloud deployments: Working with ISTIO mesh works perfect on IBM CKS.
- Network intensive deployments: IBM's network is quite powerfull.
- Docker containers
- Production Workloads: Is never a good idea to use K8s for production if you don't have a team that fully understands how to operate K8s. K8s is one of the hardest techonologies to use due it's complexity.
- Workloads that requieres KERNEL tunning: You can't modify Kernel parameters on Managed K8s like CKS. If you are running a workload like REDIS that needs certain KERNEL parameters to be set, I highly advice you to use K8s Open Source.
- High performance workloads (GPU): IBM CKS does not offers GPUs on their nodes.
- No additional training needed: IBM CKS works out of the box.
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.
Using third-party services is one of the greatest advantages of IBM's CKS. Other managed K8s do not offer that.
OpenShift is AMAZING and the integration with IBM cloud is unique. OpenShift is more powerful than IBM Kubernetes for production workloads.
3
Testing new products in order to evaluate adding them to the product portfolio.
1
K8s needs very specific knowledge.
- Testing
- Google Anthos
- Deploy K8s clusters in Mexico! AMAZING!
- Use Google Anthos with OpenShift
No
- Product Features
- Vendor Reputation
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
Be in touch with a IBM vendor. We just began to use the product like a "normal" user. Maybe the next time I will look for assistance from an IBM vendor that can help us to fully undestand the capabilities of the product.
- Don't know
No
Change management was minimal
- Incomplete documentation
- Basic support
It was not the worst part but it was not the best.
- Online training
- no training
IBM's documentation is the WORST. It is very difficult to follow and very poorly designed.
NO, never. K8s is one the most difficult technologies to learn. I mean it!
No
K8s needs certified experts. IBM does not offer or guarantee that each of the Customer Service Agents is well trained. If I pay for Premium support, I need a confirmation from IBM that the agent is AT LEAST certified in K8s (CKA) and is not just a contact center agent that was hired to answer the chat/email.
No
My last interaction was through chat. It was very robotic and repetitive. I'm almost sure that I was chatting with WATSON instead of a human.
The support is quite basic.
- ISTIO easy install
- KNATIVE easy install
- Kernel tunning
- Automatic autoscaling
The GUI is very simple (in the good way) and easy to use.
IBM's CKS does not offers automatic autoscaling nor vertical scaling (automatic). Other services like Google Kubernetes Engine scales up and down very well.
IBM's cloud is almost infallible.
IBM's cloud has a site in my conuntry (MEXICO) so the network latency was almost 0.