--- description: Review of IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Container Security Tools](/directory/4438/container-security/software) > [IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service](/software/335994/ibm-cloud-kubernetes-service) # IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/335994/ibm-cloud-kubernetes-service Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/335994/ibm-cloud-kubernetes-service?page=2) > 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, tutorials, and other resources. > > Verdict: Rated **4.4/5** by 18 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.4/5** | 18 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: IBM ## Commercial Context - **Pricing Details**: Various pricing options are available for shared, dedicated, bare metal, and VPC solutions. Contact IBM for pricing details. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - API - Activity Dashboard - Compliance Management - Container Scanning - Continuous Delivery - Continuous Monitoring - Deployment Management - Policy Management - Reporting/Analytics - Runtime Container Security ## Category - [Container Security Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4438/container-security/software) ## Alternatives 1. [Google Cloud Run](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/364124/google-cloud-run) — 4.4/5 (29 reviews) 2. [Dynatrace](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/234304/dynatrace) — 4.5/5 (82 reviews) 3. [Snyk](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/234874/snyk) — 4.6/5 (21 reviews) 4. 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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. > > 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. ----- ### "A little competitor for bigger features" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *24 October 2022* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **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 ----- ### "Best k8s environment for modern business" — 5.0/5 > **Fidel** | *25 October 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **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. > > 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. ----- ### "Kubernetes - user review" — 5.0/5 > **Nishant** | *12 October 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **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 > > Overall experience has been good with kubernetes. Connected with jenkins and works fine, ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/335994/ibm-cloud-kubernetes-service?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/335994/ibm-cloud-kubernetes-service) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data