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.
"Provides auto rollback and scale-up and scale-down functionalities."
"Kubernetes' most valuable features are scaling, deployment, and container management."
"This solution is cost effective and fast. We are able to use Kubernetes to orchestrate hundreds of container images which has been a major benefit."
"This solution provides a comprehensive way to scale up our ports and containers, without having to use multiple products."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The Desired State Configuration is a handy feature; we can deploy a certain number of pods, and the tool will ensure that the state is maintained in our desired configuration."
"The solution has many valuable features but the most impressive is the ability to scale an application and continuously monitor if all the components of the application are functioning correctly."
"It's really scalable and efficient for resource management."
"Defining security metrics has proven beneficial for customers in maintaining a safe environment."
"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."
"It definitely gives the end customer a good overview and perspective of running applications in terms of overall workload footprint. TMC provides a very detailed description of your cloud-native application in the form of graphical visualization."
"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."
"VMware Tanzu Mission Control has many valuable features, such as ease of use and customization."
"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 security of the solution is in its infancy and needs a lot of work."
"Kubernetes should improve its consistency across different types of deployments. My customers tell me that they get much better performance when Kubernetes is deployed on VM versus PaaS services from Azure."
"The solution does not work with third-party tools, or alternative cloud providers, which limits the extent that we can utilize it to."
"The price is something they need to improve."
"Kubernetes could improve by having better integration with VMware solutions."
"There are several areas where Kubernetes could improve."
"The setup and operation of the product should be simplified."
"Kubernetes is a bit complex, and there's a steep learning curve. At the same time, I cannot imagine how it could be easier. You need many add-ons to it, and the commercial releases of Kubernetes should address that."
"It is not easy to build a solution with containers. It has a graphical user interface, but you need to have a lot of knowledge of Linux and how to work in the command mode. Its support can also be improved. Currently, its biggest disadvantage is that it is a new product, and the clients prefer to go for a solution that has been in the market for a long time. There are not that many people who know this product."
"Another area of improvement is pricing."
"Having a unified dashboard to manage all infrastructure, whether it involves additional IT infrastructure or modern apps, would be highly advantageous"
"Cost is always a concern. Smaller companies might find the price a bigger issue."
"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."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions such as HPE."
"The disaster recovery feature could be improved to provide better tracking of issues. I would also like to see the introduction of a dashboard view, for even further integration of all the areas that Mission Control looks at."
Kubernetes is ranked 4th in Container Management with 68 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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