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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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10 out of 10
January 15, 2023
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  • Container Orchestration (14)
    8.2
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  • Cluster Management (14)
    7.7
    77%
  • Security and Isolation (14)
    7.5
    75%
  • Storage Management (14)
    7.5
    75%

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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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Product Details

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 Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported Countrieshttps://console.bluemix.net/docs/containers/cs_regions.html#regions-and-zones
Supported LanguagesA 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

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Rajesh Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Hasnaeen Ferdous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Zachary Jones | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
February 18, 2020

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Aitor Mier Pons | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Srihari Kapu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Rishabh Pandey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
René Schouten | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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