Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) honest review
January 27, 2025

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) honest review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

We use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to deploy container workloads mostly for microservices and other applications. It gives us flexibility in terms of scaling the compute based on application requirements. We can easily expand immediately rather thank waiting for someone to actually provision the compute. Also we are using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to do a burst mode where we need some workloads to run for a short amount of time and then shutdown. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) perfectly fits into that.

Pros

  • Container workloads
  • Auto scaling
  • Standard Kubernetes deployment
  • Easily integrate with Azure monitoring and Logging

Cons

  • GUI on azure portal need to enhanced.
  • The feature set should be matching with Openshift which is also Kubernetes based
  • Troubleshooting errors
  • It is cheap and able to deploy the same workloads as OCP but at lesser cost
  • The ability to dynamically scale up and down makes this a preferred choice for container workloads
  • The security and patching capabilities provided by Microsoft can be trusted
Barring certain missing features such as operator management , open cluster management, it does gives lot of options to host containerized applications. The GUI may be improved and can give user more insights to the cluster rather than using command line tools. The integration with standard azure monitoring tools is a big plus to use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Integration with other standard azure services make Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) case strong. As we use most of the azure services it is easy to integrate. It is difficult to use EKS as the user interface is not intuitive and difficult to integrate. The services need to be co-locate so azure gives a good option in that space.

Do you think Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) go as expected?

No

Would you buy Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) again?

Yes

It is cheap alternative to Openshift and can easily be scaled in cloud. Almost offers the same features as Openshift but with lesser cost.
CI/CD capabilities are lacking

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Feature Ratings

Container Management
5.6
Security and Isolation
8
Container Orchestration
8
Cluster Management
2
Storage Management
3
Resource Allocation and Optimization
9
Discovery Tools
4
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
1
Self-Healing and Recovery
7
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
8

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