Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) vs. IBM Cloud Managed Istio

[Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)] is great when you need to be able to deploy a large number of services in a highly repeatable way. Once you know how to use it, it is a very fast to stand up a new environment. However there is a lot you need to know to get to that point and it is a specialized area. This is not suitable for small teams who are supporting multiple product stacks.

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It is a perfect application when you have multiple users and/or developers and you want to create rules and standards for access and the ability to change access levels. The reporting of usage is good, but adding more granularity into the metrics that have been used to measure are not specific enough. They provide detail but drilling into the detail would be more appropriate i.e. access to the baseline data.

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• To scale the microservices very easily.
• Easy to set up in CI/CD pipeline.
• It has a good pricing option as well in Azure. Basic works fine.
• Accelerates containerized application development for the developers.

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

• GUI on azure portal need to enhanced.
• The feature set should be matching with Openshift which is also kubernetes based
• Troubleshooting errors

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

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Barring certain missing features such as operator management , open cluster management, it does gives lot of options to host containerized applications. The GUI may be improved and can give user more insights to the cluster rather than using command line tools. The integration with standard azure monitoring tools is a big plus to use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours.

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Training and usage support available

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Worked with very similar in-house-built Kubernetes/container management system. We are leveraging AKS as it's more robust and stable being in the technical space for quite some time. Also, it has got a vast number of management and security features which makes it more attractive. They even have a model where the cost can be reduced by up to 90% if the application can afford to handle a quick downtime once in a while.

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1) One-stop solution for all the complex network connectivity managed by [IBM Cloud Managed Istio]. 2) Nice dashboard to understand the flow. 3) Easy to troubleshoot the service if any one of the APIs is not responding. 4) We can integrate it with Azure Kubernetes service and other cloud provider Kubernetes services. 5) Monitoring the health of the pods can be easily configured and alerts can be triggered very accurately with this tool.

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• The ability to scale has reduced the need for headcount in IT
• The authentication process has kept us compliant with regulatory bodies
• The ability to replicate environments is great.

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

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