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IBM Cloud Kubernetes pros and cons
May 06, 2019

IBM Cloud Kubernetes pros and cons

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

We use the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service for the deployment of the blockchain application. We are doing research on how blockchain can be employed in real-world applications. We thought that cloud containers would be better for deploying blockchains and working on them. IBM's Kubernetes Service is pretty good but sometimes it suddenly sends an email saying that there was an unexpected issue and it'll be closed for some time.
  • 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.
  • Easy to use and configure in IBM's Cloud.
  • Unfortunate service issues but not frequent.
  • Aggressive price in my opinion.
  • The perfect option for deploying web apps and testing blockchains.
  • Docker
Everyone knows that IBM Cloud Kubernetes is comparatively the best container based cloud platform to use over Docker with its features and performance. IBM Kubernetes is widely accepted by the community of developers, despite the hard installation process. The sole reason behind its popularity is the flexibility it offers and also the fact that it is backed by Google, one of the leading tech giants. Docker, on the other hand, has a small community. It is growing slowly, but it is hard to speculate whether it will ever beat Kubernetes.
Docker
IBM Cloud Kubernetes has features that are great, as well as its own issues. It's pretty good with its performance and web applications can be deployed easily. We specifically used Kubernetes for deploying our blockchain and to see how a blockchain performs in a real-world application so that we can move to deploy a fully functioning blockchain application. The main problem we experienced is that the service shuts down sometimes. This issue occurs about 5-6 times in a month, but the system returns to normal very fast.