IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Review
October 14, 2025

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Review

Narender Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

We’re a consulting company and an IBM Platinum Business Partner. We help customers migrate their workloads from on-premises environments to the cloud — whether those are Power workloads like IBM i or AIX, or other types of workloads as well.

Pros

  • We have some customers where we migrated their Power Systems to IBM Cloud — specifically IBM i or AIX on IBM Power — along with some x86 workloads as well. So basically, these customers were spending a lot more money and struggling to maintain or refresh their workloads on their on-prem sites. But now, since we’ve moved them to the cloud, their hosting costs have gone down, and they’re really very happy.

Cons

  • I would say there are still some areas for improvement in the IBM Support solutions — especially in how IBM Support handles IBM Cloud.
  • The IBM Cloud portfolio is growing every day, so there are also some integration challenges. As an IBM Champion, I’ve been pushing these ideas and feedback to IBM through their Aha portal.
  • It basically increased our ROI — and our customers’ disaster recovery capabilities have also improved, so they’re really excited about that.
During the migration process, we need a repository to store the data so we can first migrate it to the cloud and then build the migrated servers from there. After that, we also generate some revenue based on that data.

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

I remember we had a few customers who wanted to migrate their Power workloads. They were struggling to move those workloads, and IBM was actually the only hyperscaler or platform provider offering IBM Power on cloud infrastructure. There are other companies as well, but their cloud infrastructure costs are very, very high.

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Feature Ratings

Container Management
Not Rated
Security and Isolation
Not Rated
Container Orchestration
Not Rated
Cluster Management
Not Rated
Storage Management
Not Rated
Resource Allocation and Optimization
Not Rated
Discovery Tools
Not Rated
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
Not Rated
Self-Healing and Recovery
Not Rated
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
Not Rated

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