IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Reviews

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is used to deploy and manage containerized apps in IBM Cloud, using a Kubernetes environment. It is suitable for businesses using IBM Cloud in various industries, including financial services,...

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Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 04/02/2023

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service_Rview

Pros

Easy scaling of resources based on demandOptimize performance and reduce costsIntegration with other IBM Cloud services such as IBM Cloud Object Storage and IBM Watson

Cons

Difficult to customize Kubernetes control plane and nodes to specific requirementsLimited support depends on the different Kubernetes versions

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 26/12/2022

Kubernetes : orchestration tool

Using this software helped me to orchestrate microservice along with load balancing and easy scaling

Pros

First of all , this software is so friendly in terms of user interactions and experience . In addition, it is so scalable as well. We can host/manage our app easily and orchestrate docker containers.

Cons

As for the new users, it will be so hard/difficult to be familiar with this software and to understand the main feature behind this tool since it requires a lot of experience.

Maria
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 15/12/2022

IBM cloud kubernetes service review

Pros

I can manage and deploy and containerized applications on the IBM cloud

Cons

Seeking help from the technical issues team is a bit hard

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Raamnaaraayan
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 13/03/2022

CRI Plugin provided by IBM Cloud K8 service effectively prevents cluster component recompilatio...

1. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service offers Container Runtime Interface plugin which facilitates our API integrations

2. Control loops are provisioned effectively to track of our cluster states and our data plane optimization is done through analyzing its performance metrics.

3. All host activities & monitoring protocols are managed through runtime container security features.

4. Managing our resource permissions and user access policies are easily done in our Kubernetes cluster deployments through container policy management.

5. We can include custom resource definitions to our API-integrated clusters so that we can utilize replica sets and not necessarily build our servers from scratch.

Pros

1. It allows us to orchestrate our containers and offer excellent scalability for our applications to move into production environment.

2. Container monitoring feature collects essential metrics & tracks our containerized applications for their smooth performance.

3. It implements changes safely to our production by proactively identifying issues and redeploying our containerized applications quickly.

Cons

There isn't anything in particular which I can mention as I like the least about IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. It provides Realtime insights into our metadata, pod configurations and performance metrics which helps in overviewing the health of all containers and redeploy them in case of any issues.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
2

4
Reviewed on 23/12/2022

An easily integrated and useful service

Pros

Its easy to create and manage kubernetes cluster.we don't have to mocro manage cluster wise

Cons

Its a bit pricy when you compare with self managed version of it.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 18/01/2023

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Review

Pros

I was incredibly pleased with the results of using Kubernetes to deploy and manage my docker containers. The product is highly reliable and efficient in its ability to organize, deploy, and monitor multiple containerized applications.

Cons

There are no major cons to Kubernetes, it is particularly effective when dealing with multiple containers. However, it can be quite intricate to comprehend all of its features.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 18/01/2023

Kubernetes: easy docker container orchestration

I recommend kubernetes because it made the deployment of our services easier

Pros

Kubernetes provide scalability and load balancing between docker containers taking our application to another level

Cons

Kubernetes is a little bit expensive. Furthermore it requires prerequisite about docker containers which may be complex for beginners. Also the terminal commands may confuse them.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 01/12/2022

Kubernetes Review

Pros

I am using this remarkable orchestration tool in order to deploy, organize and control multiple applications. Indeed, we can smoothly scale up and down the containers, track their deployment history or alert the users in case of error.

Cons

Although it is a considerable tool, it is still quite complex, as it necessitates familiarity with numerous concepts such as containerization, networking and so on.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 06/09/2022

A great tool for containerized application

Pros

Easy to scale
Easy to integrate
Faster outputs

Cons

No cons, just it is lacking somewhere in terms of additional features that EKS. Has

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 24/10/2022

A little competitor for bigger features

Pros

it was surprising finding kubernates in ibm world, very comfortabile for who always moved through ibm world

Cons

it is still far from other competitor like amazon or others but better comparing to d2c or other little companies

Fidel
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 25/10/2022

Best k8s environment for modern business

It clearly optimized our systems, and migrating to a cloud k8s was the best move as a growing business. It saved a lot of investment in processing capability and maintaining the environment is much simpler.

Pros

After configuring your clusters, you can easily deploy and test your apps to your staging environments before sending them to production. Your secrets can be preconfigured in a common database to be accessible to all your microservices.

Cons

It requires at least a small engineering or DevOps team in order to configure and set up a proper environment with QA and TA environment. This is not necessarily a con but a must to have in consideration.

Nishant
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 12/10/2022

Kubernetes - user review

Overall experience has been good with kubernetes.
Connected with jenkins and works fine,

Pros

Kubernetes - i liked it much while using with jenkins and docker

Container orchestration savings
Increase in efficiency of production deployments
Easy to work with vendors and internally

Cons

While making a move to kubernetes, its little hard to make a change, understand.
Little hard to manage

Maroun
  • Industry: Furniture
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 05/01/2023

Gg host

Pros

Very easy software to use helpfull ans i like the design

Cons

Not many cons except for some rare bugs but not important

Rahul
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 31/03/2022

Great way to manage your containers

Pros

Kubernetes has been easy to use and monitor. They have a great support community. Easy to debug. Easy to understand syntax. Manages the containers flawlessly once it is been set up.

Cons

Setting up could be made simpler. Overly complex for simple applications. Could be made easier to apply for a beginner.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for Free Trial
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 08/12/2022

Kubernetes: Containter orchestrator

Kubernetes helped us resolve container deployment related problems even though more experiences are required. We recommend it for sure!

Pros

I work with Kubernates to manage numerous docker containers, increase our applications' scalability and monitor the history of containers' deployment.

Cons

Althought its considerable features, it is know with its high resource and time consumption (ram and cpu).

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for Free Trial
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 22/08/2022

One of the best managed Kubernetes services to run production application

Pros

It provides enterprise-level scalability and security, and it integrates IBM Watson API.

Cons

More on-premise support for sensitive would've been great as its documentation mostly assumes that the customer prefers cloud instead of on-premise application, which is not always the case.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 22/01/2023

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Pros

Je suis en train d'utiliser un outil d'orchestration exceptionnel qui permet le déploiement, l'organisation et la gestion de plusieurs applications. Avec cet outil, nous avons la capacité de mettre à l'échelle les conteneurs de manière transparente, de suivre l'historique de déploiement et d'informer les utilisateurs en cas d'erreur.

Cons

Bien que cet outil soit assez puissant, il peut être assez complexe car il nécessite une connaissance de plusieurs concepts tels que la conteneurisation et le réseautage.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
3

3
Reviewed on 21/01/2023

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Review

Selon mon experience, j'ai utilisé IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service afin de déployer et de controler plusieurs applications. Ainsi, on a utilisé ce service afin de suivre les historiques des conteneurs déployer.

Pros

Le plus apprécié dans ce logiciel est l'UI, ainsi la facilité d'accès. Aussi IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service est facile à apprendre et à adapter.

Cons

Le moins apprécié dans ce logiciel est que IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service nécessite de savoir en parallèle de nombreux concepts. Par exemple, un utilisateur de ce service doit savoir le principe de conteneurisation (containerization) ainsi d'avoir un peu d'informations sur le réseau.

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