IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service	Score7.4 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is a managed Kubernetes offering, delivering user tools and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that users can bind to cloud services related to IBM Watson®, IoT, DevOps and data analytics. As a certified K8s provider, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides intelligent scheduling, self-healing, horizontal scaling, service discovery and load balancing, automated rollouts and rollbacks, and secret and configuration management. The Kubernetes…	N/A

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Considered Both Products	IBM Luis Abatista Delivery Manager Middleware & Automation (Technology Integration) in Information Technology at Indra (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service I have earlier used various services, such as Kubernetes and Google Cloud Run. Still, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service offers more convenience and a larger set of functions and features are available in Kubernetes. Google Cloud Run is much closer to a server less approach to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Both services are very similar and work in a very similar way, both fulfilling their purpose well. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service was chosen to test how a different platform from the traditional one would work during the execution of the project and whether it would perform well. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service It is more focous on enterprise security and hybrid cloud support, It is also openshift to enhance from anywhere, tight integration with other tool, It's cloud features so that we can easily to use from anywhere and it is easily to integrate with ibm other tool so that multiple … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Many solutions and vendors are offering the service to deploy a solution for based Kubernetes cloud, but we have selected IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service for the optimization, high availability, DRP process, reduced downtimes, support, documentation, and the easy way to deploy Kube… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service IBM Cloud is simple to use and has no custom requirements to start, Other products are not cost-efficient compared to IBM IKS. Incentivized Helpful? Jon Brizuela Cloud Security Architect in Information Technology at Valhalla Road LLC (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service AWS Fargate, EKS, ECS, Docker Containers Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service IBM Kubernetes Service and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) are two popular managed Kubernetes offerings that allow organizations to deploy, manage and scale their containerized applications. Advantages of IBM Kubernetes Service Incentivized Helpful? John Santos Ndiwayesu CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Engineering at GROUPE SUPRA (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Our almost all use-cases are being addressed by IKS and integrations on IBM Cloud. So have not necessarily explored other vendors with similar depth. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Well, as we were in a state to compulsory implement this service, but then it is very suited for deployment of a service that has higher fault tolerance. And maintaining the lifecycle of custom made resources. And the ability to integrate other services also Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Corbitt Cloud Architect in Information Technology at DRA Global (Mining & Metals, 1001-5000 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service The agility of Kubernetes allows it to be deployed quickly with short iterations. Operability makes it work well over time, not just at [the] deployment phase and the application itself is able to expose a health check in order for the infrastructure it is running on to query … Incentivized Helpful? Colin Heathcote Senior Expert, Distributed Systems in Information Technology at PBN Global (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service All of the container management systems we evaluated are popular and each has its unique features and benefits. Kubernetes is the solution we found with containerization, agile development, and continuous delivery which would shorten the time it took to get a project up and … Incentivized Helpful? Sai karthik Satyavarapu Senior Technical Specialist in Information Technology at HCL Software (Information Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service It's very fast, easy to navigate, and has more features and compatibility while using the GUI. Pricing is less compared to IBM. Incentivized Helpful? Adrian Schauer Software Engineer in Information Technology at CodeClouds (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service With the scalability, the management, the coordination, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service really empowers the whole IT team and gives the company more time back than we had before. It is a system that has the capability to manage where workloads are being distributed out and [do] … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Kubernetes was original formed by Google. We had a lot of compute in Google Cloud Platform and used to use their managed Kubernetes service Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and it performed quite well. I think both products are solid, but I lean toward GKE. However, I would opt … Incentivized Helpful? David Philips IT Expert in Information Technology at JFK Electricals (Consumer Electronics, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service When compared to AWS, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service offers more features and also comes at a reasonable cost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Docker is the other alternative we considered. But I suppose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service does the job pretty well for us. Incentivized Helpful? Rajesh Singh CEO & MD in Corporate at Gurjartech Pvt Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Directing administrations, similar to API entryways, constrained you to do everything automatically through config records. I would have favored a GUI for minor design changes. I think the planned maxim was that you could push configs from versional sources, while as yet having … Incentivized Helpful? Hasnaeen Ferdous Software Infrastructure Engineer (Blockchain Consultant) in Research & Development at NuArca (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service We mainly selected [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service] because IBM fabric blockchain service is mostly compatible with it. To have all the infrastructure in a single cloud to get the best output we selected the [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service]. Incentivized Helpful? Zachary Jones VP Engineering in Engineering at Triple Point Liquidity (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Routing services, like API gateways, forced you to do everything programmatically through config files. I would have preferred a GUI for minor configuration changes. I think the intended idiom was that you could push configs from versional sources, while still having a bit of … Incentivized Helpful? Lorenzo Patera PhD Candidate in Information Technology at University of Bologna (Research, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service I used also Kubernetes on-premise installation. It permits you to install a custom Kubernetes cluster in your physical machines. The advantages are clearly the complete access to the machines via ssh and the possibility of customization. In the cons, the costs are really high … Incentivized Helpful? Dillen Meijboom Owner/Developer in Information Technology at Excol (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service N/a Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is far more distributed around the world. Also it has lower costs. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Comparison of Container Management features of IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Feature	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 7.5 15 Ratings
Security and Isolation	7.315 Ratings
Container Orchestration	8.115 Ratings
Cluster Management	6.415 Ratings
Storage Management	7.915 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	7.915 Ratings
Discovery Tools	7.115 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	7.915 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	7.314 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	7.315 Ratings

User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (80 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.9 (16 ratings)
Usability	8.7 (16 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (4 ratings)
Online Training	8.7 (15 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.6 (3 ratings)
Product Scalability	1.0 (1 ratings)