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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 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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October 09, 2019
IBM Cloud Kubernetes is an excellent container management system
- IBM has a strong focus on serverless and Kubernetes. This shows in the platform. Deploying containers to Kubernetes was very easy.
- Deploying a Kubernetes cluster through the GUI is very easy and quick. On top of that, IBM Cloud offers a single node cluster for Free.
- Container Registry is a very good product for managing container images. Integration with Kubernetes was seemless.
- Portability. To transition from Google Cloud Kubernetes to IBM Cloud Kubernetes took almost no effort. We mostly use the CLI and the standard tools such as kubectl were present.
- IBM Kubernetes worked as I expected it to. The area that I would like improvement is either the simplification of the Kubernetes commands or a better management layer built on top. It takes considerable effort to train administrators to manage Kubernetes. However, I feel that adding a management layer should be an option so that the core IBM Kubernetes offering stays industry compatible.
October 07, 2019
IBM Cloud better and simple
- Better to make it available for all webapp supports
- Everything is simple and user friendly, only thing is why we create separate cloud foundry app name space for Devops related projects
August 05, 2019
k8s features at IBM Cloud
- Highly scalable
- Great documentation
- Makes it a lot easier to establish effective CI/CD pipelines
- If you have Lite account you can't create service with LoadBalancer, only NodePort is available
- Long waiting times to deploy the service
July 16, 2019
Good place to start using Kubernetes
- The tutorials are detailed and easy to follow.
- The applications are easy to support and manage. IBM's interface shows important information properly.
- It takes lees than 1 hour to get a working Kubernetes cluster!
- Some parts of the tutorials need to be upgraded.
- Knowledge of IBM console and configuration may be needed.
- IBM's interfaces interaction with logs and Kubernetes configuration could be upgraded.
July 02, 2019
A review by a current Kubernetes user
- Ease of use
- No need to install
- Bundles billing with other services
- Is the billing still a minimum of one hour? Even if the worker only used it for 20 mins?
- Long start up time for the workers
- Slow UI
- Rich features.
- Easy GUI.
- IBM Cloud command-line interface.
- Optimization of IBM Cloud command-line interface. Sometimes it takes more time to get a response.
- Further explanations are required in the documentation.
- Optimization of web page load.
May 29, 2019
Rely on K8s
- Performance is sufficient.
- A smooth network.
- Web interface included.
- Kubernetes!
- Not very stable.
- Price.
- Deployment speed.
May 24, 2019
IBM K8 made our batch processing great, again!
- It scales really well
- Depending on how you measure, it is cheaper and more powerful than Cloud Foundry
- Deployments are fast, comparably.
- It is very unreliable. We have seen nodes and machines randomly go down without warning or helpful error messages.
- Documentation is not great.
- The autoscale and documentation on autoscale are not good. We had to write/re-write our own and as a result; we found a lot of issues that caused problems.
May 16, 2019
It does what it says it does
- It's pretty easy to use.
- Gives you multiple options of machines to use for your Kubernetes cluster.
- Has a nice variety of server regions.
- You can't access your virtual machines in order to have more control of your cluster.
- The deployment of a cluster takes too long.
- Deploying Wordpress-based applications.
- Deploying Jenkins web applications.
- CI CD deployment of Docker containers using custom source code.
- Interface for using Kubernetes Service.
- Deployment support for Docker containers.
- Integration of Kubernetes with other DevOps tools.
May 09, 2019
From IBM Cloud Foundry user
- Service monitoring
- Command line tooling (ibmcloud ks)
- Don't have suggestions yet
May 06, 2019
IBM Cloud Kubernetes pros and cons
- Easy-to-use interface.
- Good for deploying web applications and pretty good performance.
- IBM Cloud Kubernetes offers built-in logging and monitoring tools.
- CPU utilization is a big factor in autoscaling.
- Little harder to set up compared to Docker, but IBM made it a little easier.
- Breakdown of service may occur at any time, which leads to malfunction of applications.
- Service issues occur at unknown times which can make it hard to monitor.
April 22, 2019
Room to improve
- It's Kubernetes
- The underlying platform that is BlueMix needs work. You can get to dead ends in the GUI with no reference back to "home."
- Provisioning of underlying clusters is not automated.
- Removal of hardware is not intuitive.
April 22, 2019
K8S
- Scales really well
- Deploys fast
- Resolves Cloud Foundry issues
- Goes down once in a while.
- Flipping between routes don't work so well at times.
April 19, 2019
IKS
- Well integrated container registry
- Support for ingress controller and public domain name for service deployed on IKS
- Good UX
- Provisioning time for worker nodes can come down.
- Integrating using programming languages like Go can be helpful, i.e improving the bluemix-sdk.
- Sometimes the web portal is too slow, needs improvement in service uptime.
March 22, 2019
IBM Kubernetes is awesome!
- Isolate environments at low cost.
- Fault-tolerant.
- Full control on our resources.
- Steep learning curve
- Can be tricky to setup sometime
- Monitoring is not completely set up at start
February 21, 2019
Why we run Kube in IBM Cloud.
- Quick Updates, Highly Scalable. We keep adding nodes when needed.
- Never spent a minute on any maintenance activities for our Kube Cluster.
- Zero Downtimes in last 2 years.
- Helm inventory is somewhat lacking.
- Little confusing when it comes to PVCs.
- Networking between our Kube Clusters and our other VMs is very difficult due to lack of documentation
February 15, 2019
Kubernetes adoption
- Gives the scale we need
- Bundled with Dev Ops it becomes easier to deploy and operate
- Gives us the portability across cloud providers
- Dev Ops reference templates are not available for organizations to quickly adopt
- Organizations want to focus on developing business features but wanted a pipeline which takes the code all the way to deployment without much human intervention. Wanted to see quick set up of Kubernetes platform along with Dev Ops capabilities as Service.
February 14, 2019
Love the product
- Help to orchestrate the containers on with we have deployed our micro services
- Auto scaling
- It makes it super easy to deploy applications
- Much better integration with the log analysis
- Make it easy to retrieve the logs and search through them
February 14, 2019
Great container offer!
- Highly configurable
- Resilient
- Secure
- Pricing compared to competitors
February 13, 2019
IBM product review
- Easy to setup
- Strong support
- Fully managed
- Not easy to integrate with in-house tools
- Lack of prebuilt functionality
- Not easy to install
September 11, 2017
Using Bluemix as the IoT platform for our clients
- Rapid implementation for IoT platform
- Rapid implementation of a micro service environment
- Deep learning facilities available in the value stream
- Surprisingly complex to implement some features, like port forwarding within the PaaS architecture without implementing IaaS layer features.
- Prepared environment - the preparation of the platform was easy for us to spin up
- Selection of services that we would implement. Limited need to search for varied sources
- Our developers felt that the documentation was difficult to navigate. Time spent in the platform cleared the problem for the team.
July 19, 2017
Bluemixed-bag of a review!
- Automation
- Orchestration
- Deployment
- User Experience
- Lack of a large worldwide availability zone options unlike competitions.
- Certain clutter
June 26, 2017
Bluemix and Watson, great choice for Enterprise AI
- Local install options.
- Security.
- Often for large companies IBM is already on the network and it is an easier sell.
- Kubernetes is comparatively new there, needs maturing.
- Getting your app available as a third party is a longish process, needs streamlining.
- Still some shifting around and renaming of elements of the Watson APIs that can throw off development, hopefully, all is now set.