IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

RATING:

4.4

(18)

About IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

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, healthcare, retail, transportation, and government. This solution can be used to create free, classic clusters as well as virtual private network (VPC) clusters. Using the IBM Cloud Console, users can create a secure cluster in a few clicks and deploy a containerized app via the Kubernetes dashboard. Additional features include intelligent deployment scheduling based on availability, self-healing containers, built-in logging, performance monitoring, plus more. Pricing information is provided by IBM. Support is available via online documentation, tuto...

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Pricing

Various pricing options are available for shared, dedicated, bare metal, and VPC solutions. Contact IBM for pricing details.

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes overview

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

1 - 5 of 18 Reviews

Anonymous

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 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.

Fidel

Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 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.

Anonymous

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 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

Raamnaaraayan

Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2022

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

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.

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 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.