DigitalOcean Kubernetes vs. IBM Cloud Managed Istio

DO Kubernetes is well-suited for: - deploying APIs - deploying workers - log collection and analysis (ie ELK stack) - deploying Helm charts and anything that can be mapped on to K8s concepts Less appropriate for anything requiring no public Internet access (ie VPC only). Less appropriate for anything requiring integration with the DO app platform via VPC, at the moment.

Incentivized

It is a perfect application when you have multiple users and/or developers and you want to create rules and standards for access and the ability to change access levels. The reporting of usage is good, but adding more granularity into the metrics that have been used to measure are not specific enough. They provide detail but drilling into the detail would be more appropriate i.e. access to the baseline data.

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• Hosted dashboard
• Hosted container registry
• Horizontal auto-scaling
• LetsEncrypt SSL termination

Incentivized

• Debug issues
• Monitoring
• allows many services form many different sources

• Option for internal VPC-only deployment
• Better integration with cloud firewall
• Better integration with DO App platform via VPC

Incentivized

• Still missing functionalities for a full usage as traffic director.

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Training and usage support available

Incentivized

DigitalOcean is the most affordable and straightforward of the hosted Kubernetes options we evaluated. All features that we require are supported without an excess of complication of extraneous features. Straightforward billing is also very important for us in comparison to the Big Three cloud hosts, which have very complicated billing practices. DigitalOcean also provides a platform with very little vendor lock-in.

Incentivized

1) One-stop solution for all the complex network connectivity managed by [IBM Cloud Managed Istio]. 2) Nice dashboard to understand the flow. 3) Easy to troubleshoot the service if any one of the APIs is not responding. 4) We can integrate it with Azure Kubernetes service and other cloud provider Kubernetes services. 5) Monitoring the health of the pods can be easily configured and alerts can be triggered very accurately with this tool.

Incentivized

• Excellent uptime
• Low cost for provided value
• Good integration with the rest of the DO platform to provide additional value

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• Management burden is reduced resulting in positive ROI.
• Application is being seamlessly instrumented with good impact on business.

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