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Room to improve
April 22, 2019

Room to improve

Michael Doran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service supports the core of our organization. It has solved the problem of being cloud agnostic for most of what we use Kubernetes Services for.
  • 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.
  • Slow when compared to other cloud providers with Kubernetes.
  • Proprietary IBM offerings led us down a dead-end with product development and resource allocation.
The goal is to be compatible in all of the major cloud spaces. Despite the negative reputation. IBM still has space to offer this service.
Great if uptime and provisioning speeds are not a must. Not versatile enough to entertain using for a dynamically side scaled solution even with Knative. The slow provisioning time and human parser steps behind the scenes make using BlueMix a difficult endeavor. If things were a little more fault-tolerant and scalable, I think the platform would be great. For proof of concept, the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is great.