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.
"There's a lot of community support if you need to get help."
"The scanning and support network."
"We use this solution for the hosting of micro-services. Kubernetes helps us to orchestrate all the containers hosting these micro-services."
"The most valuable feature of the platform is the ability to load some of the containers that were previously managed by humans."
"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 best feature is autoscaling. It's effortless to use for scaling deployment parts, CI/CD, etc."
"The self-serving feature allows our developers to grab a container and complete testing."
"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."
"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 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."
"The most important thing about the solution is its flexibility."
"Defining security metrics has proven beneficial for customers in maintaining a safe environment."
"VMware Tanzu Mission Control has many valuable features, such as ease of use and customization."
"The most important feature of Tanzu Mission Control is its integration with the other products, especially with ESX and vSAN. This is a strong part of Tanzu Mission Control. In other solutions, such as OpenShift or Kubernetes, you can find similar features, but they don't have similar integration. With Tanzu Mission Control, you get a total solution with only one provider. You have the integration with the infrastructure, virtualization of networking, and virtualization of storage. You have a natural integration, and you don't have the problem of integrating it with different products or providers. Sometimes, different companies have good integration, but it is not always guaranteed. For example, many years ago, Cisco and VMware were good partners in networking, but when VMware started to sell ESX, the relationship was broken. This is the problem that you can face when you are using solutions from two different companies."
"Lacks some scalability and more user-friendly operability."
"The first time it was a little bit complex to setup the solution."
"The setup and operation of the product should be simplified."
"Community-based Kubernetes is quite hard to set up."
"Currently has a very minimal UI for certain things."
"Kubernetes is a complex solution. The product needs to be more manageable and user-friendly."
"The pricing could be improved. It would be ideal if it was a bit less."
"Kubernetes could adopt UI-based approach. A UI-based approach would be really useful in the CI/CD pipeline. They should make everything a little bit more user-friendly. For example, when I'm deploying, it would be nice to load my code and be able to see which components need to be connected."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions such as HPE."
"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."
"The network control and security policies must be improved."
"Cost is always a concern. Smaller companies might find the price a bigger issue."
"Having a unified dashboard to manage all infrastructure, whether it involves additional IT infrastructure or modern apps, would be highly advantageous"
"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."
"Another area of improvement is pricing."
"We want to see a new feature that helps build more security architecture like Zero Trust Security or shifting left in Kubernetes."
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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