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What is IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service?
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering to deliver powerful tools, an intuitive user experience 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 to deliver powerful tools, an intuitive
user experience 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. Visit the vendor's Docs pages for pricing and support information.
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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Integrations
- IBM Cloud Container Registry
- IBM Cloud Developer Tools
- Istio
- IBM Cloud DevOps Insights
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Competitors
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Amazon EKS
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% |
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| 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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January 14, 2022
Good container orchestration platform from IBM
- 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.
January 08, 2022
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Review
- Good documentation.
- Ease of installation.
- Good UI.
- Having better instructional videos online would be nice.
December 07, 2021
Scaling applications and creating new businesses
- Quickly scaled our infrastructure[.]
- Streamlined application release process[.]
- The environment is now standardized to allow to quickly transition to different projects[.]
- Since it's very powerful it can be an overkill for applications that do not require a distributed architecture[.]
- It can be difficult to migrate applications to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, and at times the entire architecture has to be refactored[.]
December 06, 2021
It enabled an immutable infrastructure and now we can ship our features faster than before
- It lets developers work in the same environment that the application will be running in production
- It made it easier to test, easier to refine, and easier to deploy
- Helped engineers embrace the DevOps mindset as they built software
- The language to define containers is initially hard to understand
December 05, 2021
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Review
- 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
- 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
- It is affordable compared to competitors
- Auto updating of the Kubernetes version
- Great documentation.
- Generation time.
- Should make simple UI
- Pre-configured template
November 25, 2021
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides a fully managed version of powerful orchestration software
- Kubernetes is fully managed
- Autoupdating of the Kubernetes version
- Managed container runtime
- Steep learning curve
November 21, 2021
Please make free tier Kubernetes service the most usable/serviceable across cloud vendors
- Always, the free tier is attractive.
- The 30-day free tier expiration is pointless.
- Not all options are available on the free tier.
- Load-balancer type not available on the free tier.
- Cluster deployment is slow.
August 18, 2021
Kubernetes review
- Quick learning curve.
- Fast deploypment.
- Great documentation.
- Excellent customer support.
- Generation time.
- Fixing issues.
June 25, 2021
My Experience With IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
- 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
- Easy and fast deployment
- Reliability
- Cost effective
- Expensive
- Bad Logging
- Not available in all regions
May 13, 2021
Best Kubernetes Serviced in IBM Cloud
- Reliable managed kube service to operate.
- Easy to deploy and manage.
- Less code
- Best on the operational side by less work.
- Security
- Great customer service
- Adding more service logs
- Matrices graph
May 02, 2021
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Review
- Easy to access on demand
- Scalable
- Flexible
- Need to improve [the] support system
- Should make simple UI
- 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
- 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
- Blockchain Abilities
- Brand Trust
- Impressive GUI/appearance
- AWS-Parity
June 08, 2020
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Review
- Cost effective
- Horizontal Scaling
- Microservice Approach
- Containerization
- Overkill for simple applications
- Learning curve slow
- Not all software are native compatible
April 09, 2020
IBM Kubernetes Review
- Simple.
- Scalable.
- Reliable.
- Not available in all regions.
- Setting up cluster takes time.
April 08, 2020
Try using the container service of IBM Cloud Kubernetes
- 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
- Personal touch with their Slack channel.
- Very affordable and nice billing overview.
- Docs could be improved
March 04, 2020
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Review
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Has lots of data centers around the world.
- Easy management.
- Price could be lower.