IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service vs. Kubernetes

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

320 Reviews and Ratings

Kubernetes

170 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Kubernetes	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	Kubernetes is an open-source container cluster manager.	N/A

Pricing

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Kubernetes

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Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service	Kubernetes
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Key User Insights
	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service	Kubernetes
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 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 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? 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? 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? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service OpenShift is AMAZING and the integration with IBM cloud is unique. OpenShift is more powerful than IBM Kubernetes for production workloads. Incentivized Helpful? Henry Liu Site Reliability Engineer in Information Technology at Telstra (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service I only started using it because of the always free tier and you probably should consider enhancing the always free tier of Kubernetes (such as enabling load balancer or increasing worker node specs) to attract customers just to land on IBM cloud as their intention to play/learn … Incentivized Helpful? John Hanley Enterprise Architect in Engineering at Hanley (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service We did not select IBM Cloud Kubernetes over the others. Our objectives are to support each cloud vendor and be professional with our expertise and advice. IBM Cloud is a major enterprise vendor that we must support for our business. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service The GUI is better. The platform is designed to create a good user experience and easily deploy simple applications. You do not need prior knowledge of Kubernetes! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Due to the features of IBM Cloud we get benefits of deploying Docker containers using the Kubernetes Cluster. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service We are already using Bluemix for other deployments, so it was easy to incorporate Cloud Kubernetes service into our app. Cloud Foundry does not have the CPU options that we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service We already used other products of IBM Cloud, so we did some research to compare Kubernetes providers. We came to the conclusion that the IBM Kubernetes service is the best after the Google Kubernetes Engine. 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? 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? 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? Verified User Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service I say IKS still has a more to work, while it benefits in being an early adopter like GKE, most of these services are easier to work on when it comes to web management, something the IKS lacks and needs to improve since its release because of how well-established the management … Incentivized Helpful? Venkata Rao Vuppala Lead Engineer in Information Technology at TCS (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service IBM works well with handling large scale legacy applications. In view of the same, I trust IBM innovation and knowledge around handling enterprise applications well. Incentivized Helpful? moin haq Sr. Architect in Information Technology at American Airlines (Airlines/Aviation, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service They are cumbersome. Incentivized Helpful? Naresh B Cloud Engineer - DevOps Team at Wipro Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service It's User friendly and simple to create CI CD jobs Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Santacruz Software Engineer in Research & Development at PacificSoft (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service IBM Cloud has a lot of benefits for deploying containerized applications and compared with other cloud products IBM is cheaper. Incentivized Helpful?	Kubernetes No answer on this topic
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Features

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Kubernetes

Comparison of Container Management features of IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and Kubernetes
Feature	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service 7.5 15 Ratings	Kubernetes 8.4 3 Ratings
Security and Isolation	7.315 Ratings	8.53 Ratings
Container Orchestration	8.115 Ratings	9.53 Ratings
Cluster Management	6.415 Ratings	9.53 Ratings
Storage Management	7.915 Ratings	7.03 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	7.915 Ratings	7.53 Ratings
Discovery Tools	7.115 Ratings	8.53 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	7.915 Ratings	8.53 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	7.314 Ratings	8.52 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	7.215 Ratings	8.03 Ratings

User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service	Kubernetes
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (80 ratings)	9.5 (18 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.9 (16 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.7 (16 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.7 (15 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.6 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	1.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)