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IBM Cloud Managed Istio

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32 Reviews and Ratings

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What is IBM Cloud Managed Istio?

The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features IBM Cloud Managed Istio has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 32 ratings of IBM Cloud Managed Istio's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Issue recovery

    Ease of recovery from problem state

    Category average: 7.3

  • Platform access control

    Rules controlling what data different user categories can access

    Category average: 7.8

  • Services-enabled integration

    Ability to integrate with cloud applications and data via APIs and pre-built connectors

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Platform management overhead

    Resources required to keep platform up and running

    Category average: 7.4

  • Upgrades and platform fixes

    Ease of deployment of major upgrades or problem fixes

    Category average: 7.7

  • Ease of building user interfaces

    Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools

    Category average: 7.9

Reviews

What users are saying about IBM Cloud Managed Istio.
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IBM Cloud Managed Istio - An Awesome Tool

Incentivized
Sachin KumarView profile
Infrastructure Engineer in Research & Development at Volt Bank (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are into banking services. All our applications are microservices and we have multiple microservices for example Azure app services, Databricks, Azure SQL managed services, etc., [all of] which communicate with each other for a response. Managing the network services communication for each service is a complex process in Azure Kubernetes Services. So we integrated IBM Cloud Managed Istio with AKS cluster. Now with this new integration, it helps us to manage the routing of services, [where] we can very easily define traffic rules (i.e. ingress and egress networks). It helps to debug application connectivity issues with different types of graphs, i.e. useful in debugging.

Yes, it is used across the whole organization.

Pros

  • Managing the cluster, i.e. pods connectivity
  • Managing the ingress/egress network configuration for routing of service flow
  • Nice dashboard for monitoring the health of application
  • Trigger alerts to pager duty if something goes wrong to appropriate team
  • Pods (container) security, i.e. it will only run with specific users also got resolved

Cons

  • Complex to understand. IBM needs to provide more example documentations.
  • Updating the [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] to latest version can sometimes break the application.
  • Implementation of integration of [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] with other tools like Grafana, Sumologic for monitoring is very complex; it can be improved.

Return on Investment

  • It reduced the complexity of network mesh (ingress/egress services).
  • One tool with many solutions. No need to integrate monitoring tools or notification tools.
  • It reduced the number of lines of YAML code.
  • It reduced the number of labor hours.

Alternatives Considered

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine

Other Software Used

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Azure Container Instances, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server), GitLab

Excellent product for testing and scaling quickly

Incentivized
Michael FrenchView profile
Senior Manager Workforce Planning - Project Managment in Human Resources at Halliburton (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We started out using the software [IBM Cloud Managed Istio] within a small part of one of the divisions. It rapidly spread to usage through the entire product line. We are in the process of rolling it out to other product lines within the entire organization. We are able to create more visability to ongoing projects that previously were managed in silos without knowing start and or end dates and the details.

Pros

  • Layers transparently onto existing applications
  • Allows control of access and rules to be developed
  • Creates metrics for usage

Cons

  • Training material for new users
  • Generating specific reports
  • Adding metrics to existing report
  • Sharing reports among user groups

Return on Investment

  • Scalability had drastically reduced development hours by 75%.
  • Ease of use has reduced training time and cost by over half.
  • Metrics measuring allows for likeness identification eliminating duplicate work and rework.

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft Teams, Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud)

Great software to have all in one

Verified User
Engineer in Corporate (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

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

Cons

  • the software upates sometimes get problems
  • need more documentation
  • should have a better customer support

Return on Investment

  • Connectivity centralization
  • Reporting
  • issue debugging

Alternatives Considered

Amazon API Gateway and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Other Software Used

Oracle API Platform Cloud

IBM Cloud Managed Istio - It is for you!!!

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Cloud Managed Istio is being used across our organization and not only in few particular departments. It's being used mainly for the management of different microservices which takes care of connecting them with each other across the network. It's also secure and provides flexibility irrespective of which vendor is providing the microservices.

Pros

  • It is cloud managed and very ease to use.
  • Implementation is simple and can be easily adopted.
  • It lessens the complexity and hence is very good for the new users.

Cons

  • Some more functionalities added could improve it better.
  • Better technical user guidance.

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Other Software Used

BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB), Pega Platform, Apache Hadoop

Istio Brief Review

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Traffic management
  • Security
  • Monitoring

Cons

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

Return on Investment

  • na

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