Please make free tier Kubernetes service the most usable/serviceable across cloud vendors
Updated November 21, 2021

Please make free tier Kubernetes service the most usable/serviceable across cloud vendors

Henry Liu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

A small portion of businesses uses K8s but only for microservices.

Pros

  • Always, the free tier is attractive.

Cons

  • The 30-day free tier expiration is pointless.
  • Not all options are available on the free tier.
  • Load-balancer type not available on the free tier.
  • Cluster deployment is slow.
  • No comment for now.
  • I think it will be positive overall.
The tool's integration is great but I did not use it for my trial yet. I had a quick look at Toolchain and thought that the choice of toolings is very limited and not customizable.
I did not use it.
I only started using it because of the always free tier and you probably should consider enhancing the always free tier of Kubernetes (such as enabling load balancer or increasing worker node specs) to attract customers just to land on IBM cloud as their intention to play/learn about Kubernetes, consequently customers may start using other services on IBM cloud if not.
Perhaps for those enterprises requiring classical infrastructure needs.

Comments

  • Shannon Cardwell | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Shannon Cardwell
    (Vendor Representative) commented 5 years ago
    Hello Henry, This is Shannon from IBM Cloud, thanking you for your feedback and sharing your experience with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service. We are glad you've found the free tier useful and the tool's integration valuable. We are sorry you found the integration options limited for your trial. To see everything that is available in the free tier, please visit https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-cs_ov#cluster_types. Deployment times are longer on IBM Cloud compared to other solutions due to the compute isolation that is unique to IBM. As we continue to work on the product roadmap for both free and standard versions, your comments are extremely valuable.  Feel free to reach out to our technical team on slack at any time https://cloud.ibm.com/kubernetes/slack.

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