IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service vs. Linux Containers LXD
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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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 |
 LXD | Score9.9 out of 10 | N/A | LXD is a system container and virtual machine manager. It offers a unified user experience around full Linux systems running inside containers or virtual machines. LXD is image based and provides images for a wide number of Linux distributions. It supports various use cases, with support for different storage backends and network types and the option to install on hardware ranging from an individual laptop or cloud instance to a full server rack. LXD is written in Go. It is free software… | N/A |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.0 | 6.4 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 8.9 | - |
| Usability | 8.7 | - |
| Availability | 9.1 | - |
| Performance | 9.1 | - |
| Support Rating | 7.7 | - |
| Online Training | 8.7 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 7.6 | - |
| Product Scalability | 1.0 | - |