Knowledge orchestrator IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service platform
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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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- 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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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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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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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
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- Reduced our burn rate exponentially.
- Orchestrated our services
- On-demand scaling opportunities.
- Automation
Most of the other Cloud Computing Platforms are closely tied to their cloud providers, but CloudFoundry has the option to be deployed and used from anywhere. Be it AWS, OpenStack servers or HP Helion. In BlueMix, CloudFoundry encapsulates the core of the infrastructure and simply lets you concentrate on the application and the services that you're building. This leads to improved productivity and you deploying your application within seconds.
Containerisation is essential to all organisations that embrace rich DevOps. With recently introducing Kubernetes to its container service, Bluemix is essentially state of the art in terms of micro-service orchestration. It let's your service be deployed into micro-services without any downtime and ease of scaling by replication and migration.
Not using OpenWhisk as of now. But looking forward to using it.
Bare Metal instances and the unparalleled network security provisions make BlueMix my top choice.
June 26, 2017
Watson on Bluemix
Our product development team uses Watson APIs through Bluemix. We build cognitive applications in a B2C market for identity protection services. IGWW integrates Watson APIs as components of a daily “threat” monitoring service for consumers. Our cognitive application is developed to monitor news events related to software vulnerabilities, data breaches, online scams, and malware campaigns that are directly relevant to the consumer. The data are then extracted from the web, filtered, processed, scored, and presented to the consumer as a “threat alert” related to some aspect of their personal information security. The alert is presented with advice for mitigating the threat in the form of an “action”. Upon completion of an action, the user will see this reflected in their individual risk management plan.
Additionally, as threat alerts are generated, they are personalized and targeted to specific consumers using information contained in their personal profile. Some of the data points in a profile are automatically captured using social media data and Natural Language Classifiers to select attributes.
- Good documentation and examples for integrating APIs.
- Wonderful technology from an infrastructure POV, nearly on par with AWS.
- Watson APIs are some of the most robust turn-key ML packages out there. Furthermore, one can take these out of the box in minutes and have a working cognitive app very easily.
- Great support when needed.
- Pricing tiers for larger volumes should be included. Also, costs should be evaluated on a use-case basis, pricing these types of services by number of API calls can be prohibitive for some applications.
- Lagging in dev speed to compared to AWS.
- Need to support batch processing for Watson APIs (I'm told this is on the road map).
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- Still in development - not realized yet.
Don't use cloudfoundry, mainly use Watson.
It's great that you can deploy a whole container to your serverless computing environment. Other than that, it's just a container.
Please see previous question. Also, raise hard limits on deployment package size.
No other services
June 23, 2017
IBM Bluemix - A Paragidm Shift in Cloud Computing
We use Bluemix internally and for our clients across entire organizations. Bluemix enhances the connectivity between different cloud services, so that data and code can be aggregated in one central place: The Bluemix Dashboard. While similar services exist in AWS and Azure, Bluemix makes the integration highly automated and reliable. Coders can self service their section of the Bluemix infrastructure without relying on cloud networking experts to do so. Database administrators can easily share and control access to data through IBM Data Connect across more than 20 industry standard databases, and though multi-cloud vendors.
- Sends data from IBM Data Connect to Data Analytics in one click.
- Manages coding in the cloud IDE with continuous integration.
- Has tool chains which aggregate different services together into a complete process.
- Has a dashboard that is far more in-depth and intuitive than AWS or Azure.
- Basics like DNS and routing can be challenging.
- Uptime is not at the same level as AWS.
- Phone support is not at the level of AWS.
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- Very cost effective and horizontally scalable serivces.
- More predictable than spinning up new virtual servers for expansion (Charged by API).
- Adaptation of all standards including Docker, MongoDB, Node-RED, allows leveraging of existing and Open Source code more reliably to reduce costs.
The underpinning of Cloud Foundry as the structure for Bluemix enabled IBM to stay compatible with other services. That was important to us. IBM to our knowledge is the biggest open source backer in the world based on the number of coders they have assigned to open source. They continue to innovate and embrace new technologies like Kubernetes.
We have entire third party platforms running in Docker within client Bluemix instances. Through connected Bluemix services, those Docker instances are much more integrated than they would be with the same Docker container in AWS or Azure. We are now testing Open Whisk which further reaches into Docker containers for event triggered coding in both directions... to and from Docker.
In testing phase now. Its highly integrated into our "API First" mentality, with another layer added by Open Whisk. Its reducing our need for SQL triggers and other code which would be buried in dense legacy systems. Open Whisk is allowing these triggers to be centralized and visible by all our coding staff for better integration and coding efficiency.
- AWS, Azure and Rackspace
The IBM competitors have many of the features of Bluemix in isolation, but fail to integrate them easily. Bluemix enables our developers, and our clients' developers to be much more self sufficient and rapidly deploy code.