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Overview

What is IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service?

Recent Reviews

Knowledge orchestrator IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service platform

10 out of 10

March 30, 2024

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We needed to find a reliable and scalable way to deploy secure and standalone instances for our cloud SaaS product. We chose IBM Cloud …

Review IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

9 out of 10

March 27, 2024

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services help us in tasks such as managing and deploying containerized services and microservices-based applications …

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

9 out of 10

March 18, 2024

Incentivized

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

8 out of 10

September 05, 2023

Incentivized

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

7 out of 10

February 14, 2023

Incentivized

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

8 out of 10

February 09, 2023

Incentivized

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

8 out of 10

February 08, 2023

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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)

9 out of 10

January 24, 2023

Incentivized

We use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to secure multi-region Kubernetes clusters.
Our main problem was related to tasks managment, we needed …

Excellent service

10 out of 10

January 15, 2023

Incentivized

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

9 out of 10

January 09, 2023

Incentivized

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.

8 out of 10

December 24, 2022

Incentivized

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

8 out of 10

December 05, 2022

Incentivized

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

8 out of 10

December 02, 2022

Incentivized

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.

9 out of 10

November 29, 2022

Incentivized

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

8 out of 10

January 14, 2022

Incentivized

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is being used by a department. We run different backend microservices in it to serve our consumers. It is …

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How IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Differs From Its Competitors

IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

We hardly use internal dashboard rather we used infrastructure as code from our development side.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

We haven't use that service in any of our products.

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IBM Cloud Foundry IBM Cloud Virtual Servers IBM Cloud Container Registry IBM Cloud Object Storage IBM Cloud Certificate Manager IBM Cloud Databases IB M Blockchain Platform IBM Event Streams (formerly MessageHub)

Best impact we get were all the components are deployed into same zone cloud so …

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

We have had a good time learning and modifying cluster services with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. I think it would be easier if we stuck to IBM's purely-native cluster service GUI and metaphors — in fact, I know it would be. In our case, we have a client demand to be multi-cloud, so IBM Cloud …

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

I haven't used Watson third-party services here, yet. I can say from past experience that Watson third-party services were impressive out-of-box, and better that other cloud-native 'AI' services. The enrichment of data followed cognitive features that I expected to find, which was a sign of …

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IBM Cloud Portfolio

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service IBM Cloud Virtual Servers IBM Cloud Object Storage IBM Cloud Certificate Manager IB M Blockchain Platform

We have been able to rapidly explore the containerization of our array of cloud metaphors, including IBM blockchain services. The impression on everyone on the …

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

In our experience, we typically use IBM Cloud Kubernetes from CLI. It is really powerful and permits us to manage the entire cluster with simple APIs. CLI tools can be installed also on dumb terminals so that no powerful and GUI furnished nodes are required for managing the Cluster. Sometimes we …

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

We have deployed only custom applications on IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

It's always good to have GUI for quick learning but when it comes to management, CLI always takes precedence. It is good that IBM Kubernetes offers both options.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

Yes, the catalogue of services offered are ranging across all fields and it's always fascinating to use them.

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Implementation Insights

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!

Yes the implementation is smooth and expected to deploy within the targetted timeframe.

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Examples of Exceptional Support

We are using it for proof of concept for microservices using Kubernetes and Docker engine. The support that i am looking for setting up the cluster is really good for the need.

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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

Understanding the configuration settings and Infra requirements

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

We are still trying to make better use of these features.

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Operations for Containerized Apps

Generally speaking, we do not have logging with LogDNA solutions in the production environment.

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Implementation Insights

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 …

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Examples of Exceptional Support

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.

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IBM Cloud Support Resource Usage

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.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

We use the CLI and looking to integrate their API as well

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

The GUI provides means of overall statistics. The real management is done via the CLI. The API is not so useful for small companies, but for companies with a lot of employees it would be a good option to integrate the common tasks into a simple app via the API to reduce the maintenance time.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

No. Our IT administrator believes traditional management methods are easier to master. It's not necessary to try out complex tools.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

Actually we indeed hope to try them. But it's not easy to understand the difference between these services. We can't tell what it's used for only with their names. It's not similar to the tools we've used before in GCP or AWS.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

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.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

Using third-party services is one of the greatest advantages of IBM's CKS. Other managed K8s do not offer that.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

The GUI tool is useless whereas the CLI is really useful.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

I'm using the GUI for novice users. It's fine for now. In a few weeks, I will use the CLI and API options for sure. But starting up is quicker with the GUI.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

No, I'm not using third-party services, only services from IBM. We are on partnership program and we only can use the credits with IBM services.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

Yes, we have significantly saved time with this and this helps us evaluate the service faster.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

Haven't used them yet but will use them once we are done evaluating the service and move our clusters from AWS to IBM.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

GUI for novice users helps with faster learning with leads to CLI and API usage.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

I have not yet used readily available services. But they hold lot of promise for lesser time to market.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

Cluster management is simpler than we expected. We benefited from this feature as we overcome the overhead of running multiple clusters of dockers and having network issues. Now the entire process is very much simplified.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

We haven't had any projects on the Watson, rhus it's not a good idea for me to give a review on that aspect. In regard to the blockchain applications, it works like a charm.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

Yes, we have used the DevOps tools for continuous integration. It has helped us to use developers from different regions and deploy the code on the integration DevOps tool and also we could manage separate dev and production environments.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

We have used the cloud foundry service for our node application and MongoDB service for DB use. Both have worked very efficiently on dev as well as production environments.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is designed to simplify cluster management. It offers a GUI for novice users, in addition to a CLI and API options to integrate with continuous integration tools. Our organisation got the full benefit of this, using juniors and seniors in the project.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

I don't think we've benefited since the management of the IKS clusters still requires us to be in the Kubernetes dashboard: again, most vendors usually have their own management dashboards, without relying on the upstream dashboard, so this is a kind of a problem when we want to interact via Web …

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

Allowing the use of third-party services is a good thing since most enterprises can mix and match solutions. In our case, we might need app A to interact with the Watson service, that's possible because IKS has integration for it without doing anything, however, there must be quality control when …

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

I've not benefited a lot from the Cluster Management tools, but in the limited experience I have, they seem great.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

During the workshop, we used Watson to identify the tone of a message, which was something I haven't seen done elsewhere.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

Our transition has been very smooth due to the developer advocates at IBM and the ease of on-boarding materials provided.

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

I have used the IAM services to manage my work team permissions which has performed as sold.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

We understand the IBM Cloud Kubernetes GUI and CLI well. However, as I previously wrote, Kubernetes is still too complex of a platform. This means that we need to invest resources into training admins to manage Kubernetes. This has a cost burden today that will improve as Kubernetes matures and …

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IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

IBM Cloud Kubernetes without access to additional services and resources such as databases, storage, authentication, identity and security systems is just a container box that provides networking, memory, and processing.

A well-designed cloud application/service is designed to implement the most …

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

The GUI is really useful and is one of the reasons that make this platform different and competitive compared to other cloud providers. Some tutorials have information about the use of older versions.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

Our organization benefits from IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service with both the GUI, CLI, and API options.
It makes our continuous integration processes much easier.

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IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

Web interface, CLI, and API are easier to use, but sometimes cluster management will run into problems, such as could not create, but these are rarely used and the services in operation are not affected. The real-time price calculator is an advantage.

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Cluster Management (14)
7.7
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Security and Isolation (14)
7.5
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Storage Management (14)
7.5
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High availability and good performance so far
Interface still takes a while to get used to

Errol Brandt

Chief Innovation Officer

Knowledge Orchestrator (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

Automate and scaling workloads
Not all Kubernets versions are supported

Verified User

Consultant in Other

Consumer Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Container Management

Features commonly found in Container Management software.

7.5

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Security and Isolation
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Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.
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Container Orchestration
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The product’s ability to automate networking, deployment, scaling, and other container management functions.
7.7
Cluster Management
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Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.
7.5
Storage Management
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Product’s ability to allocate storage resources and manage both temporary and persistent data.
7.4
Resource Allocation and Optimization
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Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.
6.8
Discovery Tools
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Product provides methods (such as URIs or sortable lists) to easily find and access jobs, nodes, containers, or clusters.
7.6
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
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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.
7.7
Self-Healing and Recovery
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Product can be configured to automatically restart, replace, reschedule, kill, and validate jobs, containers, nodes, or clusters.
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Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
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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

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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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May 17, 2021

Best Kubernetes Tool in town

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Computer Networking Company, 1-10 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Easy and fast deployment
Reliability
Cost effective

Expensive
Bad Logging
Not available in all regions

May 13, 2021

Best Kubernetes Serviced in IBM Cloud

shahzad khan

IT consultant

AcuteAyes (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

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

Rajesh Singh

CEO & MD

Gurjartech Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Easy to access on demand
Scalable
Flexible

Need to improve [the] support system
Should make simple UI

April 21, 2021

IBM Cloud Kubernetes - Great choice for both small and large businesses!

Verified User

Engineer in Other

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

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

Hasnaeen Ferdous

Software Infrastructure Engineer (Blockchain Consultant)

NuArca (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

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

June 17, 2020

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services let us bootstrap and learn blockchain quickly.

Zachary Jones

VP Engineering

Triple Point Liquidity (Financial Services, 1-10 employees)

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Blockchain Abilities
Brand Trust
Impressive GUI/appearance

AWS-Parity

June 08, 2020

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Review

Lorenzo Patera

PhD Candidate

University of Bologna (Research, 5001-10,000 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

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

Venkata Rao Vuppala

Lead Engineer

TCS (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

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

Jason Tian

Channel operations manager

Buzzoranges (Computer Games, 1-10 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

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

Dillen Meijboom

Owner/Developer

Excol (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Personal touch with their Slack channel.
Very affordable and nice billing overview.

Docs could be improved

March 04, 2020

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Review

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

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

Verified User

Administrative Assistant in Marketing

Design Company, 11-50 employees

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

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

Verified User

Employee in Engineering

Computer & Network Security Company, 10,001+ employees

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

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

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

E-Learning Company, 201-500 employees

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Has lots of data centers around the world.
Easy management.

Price could be lower.

January 29, 2020

The best alternative to build your Blockchain Platform on Hyperledger Fabric.

Aitor Mier Pons

Blockchain Architect

Airplane Solutions (Airlines/Aviation, 11-50 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Easy to use
Not very expensive

More documentation
Capacity to upgrade easily

January 15, 2020

Pretty simple and easy to get started with K8s service

Lakshman Pasala

Co-Founder | Tech

Yaoe (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

We like the integrated K8s dashboard that IBM provides.
The security audit of container images is great.

One thing we'd like is options of more instances to be used as worker nodes.

January 13, 2020

Kubernetes for proof of concepts

Dipendu Biswas

System Architect

Wipro (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)

Score 7 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Comprehensive orchestration product.
Good integration with public source code control system.

Support for low footprint infrastructure for development could be better.

December 14, 2019

Kubernetes: your go to container service on IBM

Srihari Kapu

Blockchain Development Lead & Project Lead

Blockchain Technology Malaysia (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Simple
Easy to integrate
Robust
Efficient

On a lower note, it's a bit expensive.

December 06, 2019

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Detailed Review

Rishabh Pandey

Senior Blockchain Engineer

Writer Corporation (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

Score 9 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Security is the key feature which our client expects to maintain across the application.
Built-in IP address provision so that we do not need to get an external IP.
External service connection ease.
Built-in volume management to store our keys.

IP addresses are expensive as compared.
Logging is not up to the mark.
Not highly available in all countries, we need to use other region clusters.
Downtime on many occasions.

December 02, 2019

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Services serves as an accelerator for innovation using micro-services

René Schouten

Manager Business Transformation Services practice/ Cloud architect

SLTN Inter Access (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Managed cluster
Easy configuration
Ideal for micro-services architecture.
Cheap compared to old VM's.

Offers good support.

November 26, 2019

IKS: Early adopter but needs some polish

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

Score 5 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Pros and Cons

Automated Kubernetes setup
Upstream Kubernetes
Has the option of having bare-metal instances

Currently, the pricing for the instances is quite high (30% higher than major vendors), so that needs to be worked on.
VM spinup times are slower than most major cloud vendors, if GCP only takes 60 seconds on average, IBM Cloud takes more than 10 minutes. This should be faster and could use more improvement
While providing a barebones dashboard for Kubernetes is great, I believe having the IKS service to have its own managed dashboard is better than providing the upstream Kube's dashboard.