We compared Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu Mission Control based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Users praise Kubernetes for its scalability, resource management, and ecosystem support. VMware Tanzu Mission Control stands out for its multi-cloud deployment and robust automation. Kubernetes users appreciate its efficiency, while VMware users value its security measures. Both offer reasonable pricing and excellent customer service, with room for improvement in resource management and platform enhancements.
Features: Kubernetes is valued for its scalability, resource management, load balancing, and monitoring capabilities. VMware Tanzu Mission Control, on the other hand, is praised for its management capabilities, multi-cloud deployment, user interface, security measures, and automation functionality.
Pricing and ROI: The setup costs for Kubernetes are manageable, allowing for easy deployment and configuration. The pricing is considered reasonable and transparent. In contrast, VMware Tanzu Mission Control has minimal and straightforward setup costs, with hassle-free and transparent licensing. It offers flexibility for various deployment scenarios., Kubernetes offers benefits such as streamlined operations, enhanced scalability, and decreased downtime, resulting in improved resource utilization, cost savings, and faster development. VMware Tanzu Mission Control enables effective VMware ecosystem management, improved efficiency, and streamlined operations.
Room for Improvement: Kubernetes could benefit from enhancements in resource allocation and management capabilities, simpler setup process, comprehensive documentation, and troubleshooting tools. On the other hand, VMware Tanzu Mission Control needs improvements in user interface, performance, documentation, training materials, and customization options.
Deployment and customer support: Comparing the user reviews, it appears that the duration required for establishing a new tech solution, like Kubernetes, is variable. However, for VMware Tanzu Mission Control, there is more consistency among users, with deployment and setup phases typically taking one week each., Kubernetes has received exceptional customer service feedback from users, highlighting prompt and knowledgeable support. VMware Tanzu Mission Control's customer service is also praised for its excellence, responsiveness, and efficient issue resolution.
The summary above is based on 47 interviews we conducted recently with Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu Mission Control users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Kubernetes' most valuable features include scalability and deployment."
"The implementation, and the way that they can, with a few clicks, load hundreds of machines without any trouble is very useful."
"The ease of use if the solution is a very valuable aspect for us."
"The best thing about Kubernetes is orchestration. It is very good. We will not see much downtime unless there are some human errors. We do not see much downtime or issues with the container or automation."
"The scanning and support network."
"The most valuable feature is that it's a container orchestrator. It has a huge user base and it is easily incorporated into all of the public clouds."
"This solution provides a comprehensive way to scale up our ports and containers, without having to use multiple products."
"The best feature is autoscaling. It's effortless to use for scaling deployment parts, CI/CD, etc."
"The most important thing about the solution is its flexibility."
"VMware Tanzu Mission Control has many valuable features, such as ease of use and customization."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is the management functionality of the cluster life cycle. Additionally, the solution integrates well with other vendors, such as Velero for backups and Sonobuoy for compliance. Additionally, it works well in multi-cluster environments."
"Tanzu Mission Control has quite a set of rich features when compared to OpenShift."
"A feature we find valuable is that other products can also be integrated with Mission Control. This means that we can see the status of specific clusters, as well as view the monitoring application logs all from one point."
"The most popular feature of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is its graphical user interface for describing network policies on the Service Mesh, which is highly integrable with other tools commonly used in supply chains such as security."
"The multi-tenancy with the VCD is great."
"I have multiple Kubernetes environments within my environment. TMC gives me a single pane view, which is good for managing everything."
"It increases developers' overhead."
"The virtual machines should be GUI-based"
"I'm expecting more improvement on the UI development side, which can be reflected in each object that is part of Kubernetes, like the Pod, deployment set, ReplicaSet, ConfigMap, Secrets, and PersistentVolume."
"They should update Kubernetes more regularly."
"It would be great if Kubernetes could handle a level of data backup."
"Kubernetes can improve by providing a service offering catalog that can be readily populated in Kubernetes."
"Kubernetes is incredibly complicated, so one area of improvement is the ease of administration. I would like a user interface that you can run to help you debug and diagnose problems and suggest how to configure things."
"Overall, it's very powerful, but there are also a lot of complexities to manage."
"This product doesn't have a GUI. In order to use it properly, I need to connect it to a new GUI or build a GUI to manage it — it's pretty difficult."
"Having a unified dashboard to manage all infrastructure, whether it involves additional IT infrastructure or modern apps, would be highly advantageous"
"The network control and security policies must be improved."
"The infrastructure is quite challenging."
"Another area of improvement is pricing."
"Tanzu provides better manageability as compared to OCP, but when it comes to tagging it with other products, it's a bit rigid. If I have to bring in any new product or something out of the box from a different vendor, working with Tanzu becomes a little difficult. For example, if I want to use the F5 services, I have to add one more layer of Avi, but I don't want to do that. If I have a list of the products that I want to use, such as for firewall services, with Tanzu, I will have to go through another layer, which creates complexity."
"We want to see a new feature that helps build more security architecture like Zero Trust Security or shifting left in Kubernetes."
"LYNX is a managed cluster solution that takes care of specific details within a cluster, such as sequences or services. I haven't seen this feature in Tanzu Mission Control."
Kubernetes is ranked 4th in Container Management with 69 reviews while VMware Tanzu Mission Control is ranked 3rd in Container Management with 12 reviews. Kubernetes is rated 8.6, while VMware Tanzu Mission Control is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Kubernetes writes "Container orchestrator that deploys our machine learning solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Mission Control writes "Gives a single pane to manage multiple Kubernetes environments and has competitive pricing". Kubernetes is most compared with Amazon EKS, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Google Kubernetes Engine, OpenShift Container Platform and HPE Ezmeral Container Platform, whereas VMware Tanzu Mission Control is most compared with Rancher Labs, OpenShift Container Platform, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Amazon EKS and Docker. See our Kubernetes vs. VMware Tanzu Mission Control report.
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