IKS
April 19, 2019
IKS
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
We are working with IBM to list our product in the IBM Marketplace, so we are using IBM Kubernetes Service to deploy OpenServiceBroker and host it there so that we can integrate with the IBM catalog and Billing services.
- 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.
- No impact as of now on the ROI.
- IBM service seems to be on the expensive side when compared to other competitors.
- Sometime we need to wait an hour or more for a simple 3 node IKS cluster to spin up.
I have used GKE which is not in the list, and the integration it provided with the application operator and other kubernetes services is tremendous, I feel IBM needs to learn from this and hire people that know internals of kubernetes and design the cloud service again from grooundup by keeping an emphasis on performance of provisioning, de-provisioning and ease of use.