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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

Score9.8 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

What is Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes?

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes provides end-to-end management visibility and control to manage a Kubernetes environment. Users take control of application modernization program with management capabilities for cluster creation, application lifecycle, and provide security and compliance for all of them across data centers and hybrid cloud environments. Clusters and applications are all visible and managed from a single console, with built-in security policies.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Security and Isolation

    Product provides effective tools to isolate containers, nodes, and clusters and protect them from threats.

    Category average: 8.5

  • Cluster Management

    Product’s ability to centralize the management of multiple container or node clusters.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Storage Management

    Product’s ability to allocate storage resources and manage both temporary and persistent data.

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Update Rollouts and Rollbacks

    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.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Self-Healing and Recovery

    Product can be configured to automatically restart, replace, reschedule, kill, and validate jobs, containers, nodes, or clusters.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging

    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.

    Category average: 7.9

A complete cluster manager for Kubernetes.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am using "Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes" as a continuous deployment tool for my Edge clusters. It is used to deploy and manage the various instances of OpenShift, which are part of our Cloud RAN system. The Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is only deployed on the Management Cluster and not on any of the workload instances of OpenShift.

Pros

  • Continuous deployment of other OpenShift instances.
  • Controls clusters and applications from a single console.
  • Built-in Security & compliance.

Cons

  • Initial deployment of the ACM itself needs to be made easy.
  • Dependency on the Software versions of underlying open shift workloads during upgrades.
  • LCM of ACM itself.

Return on Investment

  • Reduced the deployment duration of individual nodes by 50%.
  • Acts as a central manager for all the clusters.
  • Provides a lot of infrastructure options (storage, networking, etc) to build instances of your choice.