DigitalOcean Kubernetes vs. IBM Cloud Private

DO Kubernetes is well-suited for: - deploying APIs - deploying workers - log collection and analysis (ie ELK stack) - deploying Helm charts and anything that can be mapped on to K8s concepts Less appropriate for anything requiring no public Internet access (ie VPC only). Less appropriate for anything requiring integration with the DO app platform via VPC, at the moment.

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IBM Cloud Private is well suited for SaaS models.

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• Hosted dashboard
• Hosted container registry
• Horizontal auto-scaling
• LetsEncrypt SSL termination

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• There is a large variety of services available on IBM Cloud.
• This is my first experience with a PaaS and I haven’t had any major problems navigating around it.
• It is easy to deploy applications and services on IBM Cloud.

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• Option for internal VPC-only deployment
• Better integration with cloud firewall
• Better integration with DO App platform via VPC

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• More hands on training outside of virtual classes would be helpful.

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DigitalOcean is the most affordable and straightforward of the hosted Kubernetes options we evaluated. All features that we require are supported without an excess of complication of extraneous features. Straightforward billing is also very important for us in comparison to the Big Three cloud hosts, which have very complicated billing practices. DigitalOcean also provides a platform with very little vendor lock-in.

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With VMware cloud, each VMware Cloud customer must have an SDDC account(VMC) as well as a general AWS account. The two accounts must be linked for the service to work which is a tiresome thing to do for some clients but with IBM Cloud Private all these issues are solved.

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• Excellent uptime
• Low cost for provided value
• Good integration with the rest of the DO platform to provide additional value

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