IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Reviews & Ratings 2025

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What is IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service?

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…

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service - Scaling Lord

Rating: 8 out of 10

March 25, 2025

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service is used as tool for containerisation and code deployment. It is of utmost importance that a company uses tools that can help it to scale its softw...

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Engineer

7 years of experience

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Power: Enterprise Deployment Simplified

Rating: 8 out of 10

March 18, 2025

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Built on the open source Kubernetes, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides an efficient container orchestration solution that helps to easily manage containerized workloads. T...

Luis Abatista

Manager - Information Technology

Delivery Manager Middleware & Automation (Technology Integration)

Indra

1 year of experience

My brief experience.

Rating: 8 out of 10

February 26, 2025

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I used IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service for a short period while working on a project for a client. We needed a solution that was easy to manage and within our budget, so we went ...

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Analyst

1 year of experience

Best modernize application in the market

Rating: 7 out of 10

September 10, 2024

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with the help of IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, we modernize our application infrastructure which enhance developer productivity it is also help to reduce the work pressure to ...

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Analyst

2 years of experience

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Rating: 9 out of 10

March 18, 2024

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As a container management platform, I use IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service to deploy and manage containerized applications on the cloud. IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service allows me to ...

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BBI

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How IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Differs From Its Competitors

Most Valuable Capabilities

The usefulness of the automated scaling is especially apparent, as it means that applications can increase or decrease their load as needed on their own. Further, the declarative manner of forming infrastructures makes the deployment processes the same and comprehensible, contributing to fewer …

Achievements Enabled

As much as this may seem hard to believe, it's true that the capability was not available until the advent of the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, which has made this achievable by providing the ability to deploy true microservice architecture.

Most Valuable Capabilities

The application helped facilitate container orchestration and create new clusters for test cases. Resource allocation works as expected and fulfills its role well. Storage was a little slow at times, in my opinion, but it was nothing that affected the overall experience of using the product. I …

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Achievements Enabled

This service gave me greater control over the application's infrastructure, which was under development, and opened the door to greater scalability, thus avoiding an overload of resources. Using Kubernetes in cloud environments makes organizing and managing the environment much more …

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Most Valuable Capabilities

Its efficiency in handling deployment and scalability is one of the best. It is really smooth to work with and easy to grasp and understand for the developers. The container files are generally easy to understand and files readability and understandability is really good. The new developers can …

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Achievements Enabled

Scaling is one thing that is really important if the business and the software is to expand and generally beyond a point scalability becomes an issue and really hard to achieve. With IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, in a number of scenarios it is comparatively easier to find different ways and …

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What is IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service?

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…

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Features

Container Management

Features commonly found in Container Management software.

7.7

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7.6
Security and Isolation
(18) Ratings
Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.
8.2
Container Orchestration
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The product’s ability to automate networking, deployment, scaling, and other container management functions.
7.4
Cluster Management
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Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.
7.5
Storage Management
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Product’s ability to allocate storage resources and manage both temporary and persistent data.
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Resource Allocation and Optimization
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Product’s ability to balance resource requirements, availability needs, and workload intensity to optimize resource usage.
7.3
Discovery Tools
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Product provides methods (such as URIs or sortable lists) to easily find and access jobs, nodes, containers, or clusters.
7.8
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks
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Product provides tools or functionality to deliver updates to containerized applications in ways that minimize the impact of errors, and revert updates that cause problems.
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Self-Healing and Recovery
(16) Ratings
Product can be configured to automatically restart, replace, reschedule, kill, and validate jobs, containers, nodes, or clusters.
7.8
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging
(18) Ratings
Product provides tools to manage performance, health, and other data related to containers or clusters. This could include analytics tools, logging tools, live dashboards, etc.

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What is IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service?

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 service also has advanced capabilities around simplified cluster management, container security and isolation policies, the ability for users to design their own cluster, and integrated operational tools for consistency in deployment.

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No
Supported Countries	https://console.bluemix.net/docs/containers/cs_regions.html#regions-and-zones
Supported Languages	A managed Kubernetes offering to deliver powerful tools, an intuitive user experience and built-in security for rapid delivery of applications that you 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 service also has advanced capabilities around simplified cluster management, container security and isolation policies, the ability to design your own cluster, and integrated operational tools for consistency in deployment. Visit our Docs pages for pricing and support information.