F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack vs. IBM Cloud Managed Istio

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	Score 7.5 out of 10	N/A	A solution to deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplified by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations.	N/A
IBM Cloud Managed Istio	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools.	N/A

Pricing

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Features

F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack

IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Container Management

Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack 6.0 Ratings 25% below category average	IBM Cloud Managed Istio - Ratings
Security and Isolation	6.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Container Orchestration	5.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Cluster Management	5.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	5.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Discovery Tools	4.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	6.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	6.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	6.20 Ratings	00 Ratings

Platform-as-a-Service

Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack - Ratings	IBM Cloud Managed Istio 8.0 Ratings 0% above category average
Ease of building user interfaces	00 Ratings	6.90 Ratings
Scalability	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Platform management overhead	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Workflow engine capability	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Platform access control	00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Services-enabled integration	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Development environment creation	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Development environment replication	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Issue recovery	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	IBM Cloud Managed Istio
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Enterprises	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10	Red Hat OpenShift Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend	6.7 (0 ratings)	8.7 (0 ratings)
Usability	5.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (0 ratings)	6.4 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.6 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack	IBM Cloud Managed Istio
Likelihood to Recommend	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack is great for businesses that want 100% up time. It probably is not best when there is only one person who can handle all things F5. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Michael French Senior Manager Workforce Planning - Project Managment Read full review
Pros	API DevOps API Security Apps Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Debug issues Monitoring allows many services form many different sources Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	It's still a little early so the app feels foreign to our ops teams I would like to customize the UI so I can visually see if I'm in Prod or Dev based on background colors Templates are a little awkward to create Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Still missing functionalities for a full usage as traffic director. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Documentation and learning resources are key to me providing a perfect score. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	generally support is fast Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Training and usage support available Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	F5 Distributed Cloud App Stack's partner provided services are excellent Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Pretty similar in function but easier to use Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Sachin Kumar Infrastructure Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	We are able to consolidate with F5, eliminating Cloudflare. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Management burden is reduced resulting in positive ROI. Application is being seamlessly instrumented with good impact on business. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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