Item: IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Rating: 9
Author: John Santos Ndiwayesu

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to secure multi-region Kubernetes clusters.
Our main problem was related to tasks managment, we needed a contenization tool that could help to manage the entire lifecycle of our system and therefore easily manage our tasks. Kubernetes was the best solution so far, and switching to using both IBM Cloud services + Kubernetes made it more easier.

Pros and Cons

deployment automation
speed when shipping features
help us iterate faster

I constantly get this error even when everything is well configured prefect.exceptions.AuthorizationError: [{'path': ['auth_info'], 'message': 'AuthenticationError: Forbidden', 'extensions': {'code': 'UNAUTHENTICATED'}}]
Then sometimes the error disapear without changine anything, happened twice to me. Should there be an issue with the authentication service? Please let's improve or let users know why this may be happening.
Improve the UX in the browse console when removing many images at once
UX on the process of installing KeyCloack operator

Return on Investment

Saved us time and made us discover important features
The IBM Cloud Kbnt service helped automating our way of dealing with containers
Finally App stability and availability in a cloud environment
not much user friendly (UX) compared to AWS

IBM Kubernetes Simplified Cluster Management

We benefit from CLI and GUI but we're planning for our future projects to start using the API options

IBM Kubernetes Service Pre-built Services

Haven't used them yet but will certainly be needed for our next projects

Alternatives Considered

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine and AWS Auto Scaling

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a scalable solution, but compared to AWS and Mirantis it is not auto-scaling, and The technical support from IBM is kind of poor.

IBM Cloud Portfolio

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers

The advantages of having IBM Cloud virtual servers in conjunction with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is that the latency and speed is wonderful, they all work at peak performance and there are few drops

Key Insights

Do you think IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

First, it Increased DevOps efficiency for microservices architecture : The sooner developers deploy Kubernetes during the development lifecycle, the better, because they can test code early on and prevent expensive mistakes down the road. Apps based on microservices architecture consist of separate functional units that communicate with each other through APIs,
then, there's less chance of vendor lock-in : containers only contain the resources an application actually needs (i.e., its code, installations and dependencies) and use the features and resources of the host operating system (OS), they are smaller, faster and more portable

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is doing great so far, but I believe there's still much to do (making it auto scalabile, make it more user friendly)

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service