Cost effective and easy to provision and manage
September 05, 2023
Cost effective and easy to provision and manage
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Our container infrastructure runs on IBM IKS which is a complete application layer with a tech stack of ruby on rails, javascript, GraphQL, and node applications, and hosts an in-memory Redis cluster for caching layer use. IBM provides pure Kubernetes(no touch-ups), which allows us to use the system easily with compatibilites.
- automatic load balancer service
- out of the box compatibilities
- easy to provision clusters via terraform and UI
- namespace container registry compatibilites
- IKS version upgrade with terraform with zero down time - no documentation
- Interactive IKS documentation help while deploying using UI - steps
- Cost wise and brand values its best suited for all types of companies
- IBM should enforce migration from classic to VPC to compare with other providers
- Documentation is not up to the mark for exploring options
Our company has an opensource friendly mindset and always integrates products that are compatible with opensource for better to be on industry standards. We use tools that benefit our customers, at this time we are not using any IBM tools for continuous integration. We are open to trying new tools if it benefit the company.
We did try log services from IBM which didn't fit our use case, so we moved to custom solutions. The plug-and-play services management is very user-friendly but faces a few stability issues. It all depends on the use case and requirements, but I like the Idea of third-party integrations.
- Red Hat OpenShift and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
IBM Cloud is simple to use and has no custom requirements to start, Other products are not cost-efficient compared to IBM IKS.
- IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
- IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
- IBM Cloud Container Registry
- IBM Cloud Object Storage
We use IBM IKS for app layer and IBM virtual servers for different use cases(ex: global caching of our applications using redis clusters). IBM bare metal servers and object storage for databases and backup solutions.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service again?
Yes