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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service vs. SUSE Rancher

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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

    SUSE Rancher

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ADeveloped by Rancher Labs and now from SUSE, Rancher is open-source software that enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale, on any infrastructure across the data center, cloud, branch offices, and the network edge. Rancher centrally manages Kubernetes clusters across the organization in order to ensure security and accelerate transformation. Rancher is also available hosted. Hosted Rancher is a fully managed Rancher control plane - presented as the fastest, most cost…

    $7,594.99

    per year up to 500 nodes

    Pricing
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceSUSE Rancher
    Editions & Modules
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    Subscription license
    7,594.99
    per year up to 500 nodes
    Standard Subscription
    11,234.99
    per year 10 nodes
    Priority Subscription
    30,514.99
    per year 10 nodes
    Management Server Priority Subscription
    41,830.99
    per year 1 instance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceSUSE Rancher
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceSUSE Rancher
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    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
    SUSE
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceSUSE Rancher
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and SUSE Rancher
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    7.5
    15 Ratings
    SUSE Rancher
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    Security and Isolation7.315 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.115 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    Cluster Management6.415 Ratings7.47 Ratings
    Storage Management7.915 Ratings6.76 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization7.915 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Discovery Tools7.115 Ratings6.56 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.915 Ratings7.17 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery7.314 Ratings7.86 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging7.215 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes ServiceSUSE Rancher
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (80 ratings)
    8.8
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (16 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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