Kubernetes Valuable Features

Swayan Jeet Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Schlumberger

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 is why we wanted to use Kubernetes.

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B
Consultant at Accenture

Some of the DLP features from Microsoft, like service mesh, are still open topics for us. Currently, we support the open-source Istio version, not the Microsoft Istio plugin. So we have to balance whether these features from Microsoft will help you in the long term or if you'll look for open-source alternatives certified by the CNCF. For example, building a storage and cloud-native foundation isn't something we can incorporate into our solution. We're not relying solely on what's available from Microsoft. 

Other items, like KEDA, aren't really applicable to the client infrastructure or requirements, so we're looking for alternatives. But for things like workload identity, which is AKS integrated with other directories, that can be leveraged. And NSG (Network Security Groups), can be used as a policy with your Azure Kubernetes. So there are many things, but we're selective in choosing the right features for AKS based on client requirements.

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Asad Rizvi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We find the smooth, instant fail-safes in this solution to be very useful, as this allows for easy revival of dying quads or failing applications.

The scaling feature, and the fact that it is automated, is one of our favorite features of this product. There is also good API support, to improve application integration and cluster monitoring, and a dashboard for log monitoring purposes.

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PS
DevOps Lead at Adidas

The autoscaling feature is the most valuable. Kubernetes itself is an orchestration tool. It automatically detects the load, and it automatically spins up the new Pod in the form of a new microservice deployment.

Autoscaling is a very important feature. It never interacts with deployment because once any application is deployed in the Kubernetes cluster based on load, it uses the existing application in a different Pod and creates a replica of the deployed application.

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Sreekanth Reddy Boggula - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle & Cassandra Database Engineer at Bed Bath & Beyond

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.

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Robert Croteau - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Enablement at Avesha

We're creating CRDs for our software, so I would say maybe that the deployment model of Kubernetes is simpler than the life cycle management.

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Mike Schinkel - PeerSpot reviewer
President at NewClarity Consulting LLC

Kubernetes provides scalable clustering for containers and other means of deployment.

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SulaimanMustapha - PeerSpot reviewer
CRS at Kneedrag

The high availability of containerization is most valuable. We get density with planning containers, and the self-serving feature allows our developers to grab a container and complete testing. The self-serving feature is always in the cloud or locally integrated with Ceph or cluster.

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Marco Giovannini - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect Freelancer at 73 Team

The most valuable feature of the platform is the auto-healing and auto-scaling ability to offload to the platform tasks that were previously managed by humans.

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AnkurGupta9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal DevOps Engineer at Guavus

The most important feature is container orchestration. Kubernetes provides us with a mechanism to deploy or run in an automated fashion across nodes. I don't need to worry if it's running on node one or node two, it's all taken care of by Kubernetes. 

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PB
Principal Systems Engineer at Aricent

Managing the container was a challenge. The cloud-managed Kubernetes allow us to take care of a big system and deployment and container management without having a big operational team.

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Tedi Manushi - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Mavera

The valuable idea is that you can deploy it fast. Moreover, you have different pods that interact with each other, so you can identify problems with one pod and replace it. This way, the entire application isn't dependent on one server, avoiding issues with a single web server. There are several benefits to Kubernetes.

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MK
Database Infrastructure Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Kubernetes is a microservice. So, the best thing about Kubernetes is that most of the containerized applications are centralized. You don't need to develop specific company applications on top of container images. Kubernetes also provides flexibility in maintenance. It takes away most of the maintenance part, such as if a port crashes, it comes up automatically, making deployment very easy. We just need to run a few commands to deploy the application, and maintenance is taken care of by Kubernetes. Upgrading applications becomes smooth, requiring less effort and time.

Resource utilization, cost savings, and portability are additional advantages of Kubernetes. It is available in the public clouds, and portability becomes very easy. When it comes to networking, Kubernetes offers very flexible containerization with the added benefit of CSI.

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YK
DevOps engineer at BrainStorm, Inc.

The most valuable features of Kubernetes have been autoscaling and its resilience mechanisms.

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MG
Data Engineer at Mofid

The solution has a well-defined interface for every other function like network, CRA container, and run-time interfaces. It is fantastic as open-source software, very generic, and easy to use.

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Gogineni Venkatachowdary - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Operations Center Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Kubernetes is POD technology so you can run the number of containers you need to host one by one and use similar microservices for the containers. This is a great feature of Kubernetes. The product provides auto rollback functionality and a scale-up and scale-down functionality. These are the main features that we didn't previously have. For scaling or restarting PODs or any services is very easy. We can configure the commands to easily scale up and scale down, based on the load requirement. If some business servers added more load, then we increase the POD, and increase the services. 

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Roshan George Thallamore - PeerSpot reviewer
Azure DevOps and Cloud Lead at a consultancy with self employed

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 features regarding scalability are also valuable. As part of our DevOps, I am involved in some enhancements where we plan to use pod scaling and the available AKS node scaling features. These are available native to AKS, but we do have to set up some matrices to control scaling and define scaling rules. The fact that we can achieve that dynamically is a significant part of why we use the solution.

Kubernetes is an excellent platform for hosting microservices, especially container-based microservices.

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SS
Identity and Access Manager at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

This solution provides a comprehensive way to scale up our ports and containers, without having to use multiple products.

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Ehsan Asadi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior network virtualization & storage specialist at Sipand Samaneh

The most valuable features of Kubernetes are the integration with Docker and there is plenty of documentation available. We work with Docker as a container, and it is more integrated with Docker than VMware Tanzu.

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WarrenWong - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at Jihu GitLab Technology Limited

One of the most valuable features is the thickness of the cloud platform or on-prem file, which makes the solution straightforward to shift and scale. It works well with different types of deployment strategies and networks.

The product features good integrations with other platforms. 

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MA
Learning Manager at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

The deployment strategy is great. If we look into any other framework, we do not have a good deployment strategy here. The Kubernetes framework itself gives you fantastic deployment strategies with rolling updates. 

We can completely decouple solutions, which means we can scale as much as we want. Technically there are no limitations. The way you can scale up and scale down your cluster with very few commands is amazing.

With the high availability, I can put some intelligence on the top of it. We're capable of handling any type of application nowadays. While there were limitations in previous versions, we don't need to maintain the previous state of the application. The moment our application restarts, we are not required to remember what we have used before. We do not require memory. 

The product is highly scalable. 

Security-wise, there are a lot of frameworks that are available. 

The product offers security, scalability, high availability deployment, and scheduling mechanisms. These are all features that people are passionate about. 

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Abbasi Poonawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I like that it has really boosted cloud-native development and stood the test of time. The underlying architecture allows one to scale as per the business KPIs much faster. The underlying architecture is the master that works faster than the nodes. Then there are pods within those slave nodes, and there is a control pan as a part of the core architecture of the Kubernetes. Once you have the cluster up and running, you can monitor that and deploy your applications into the Kubernetes cluster. 

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Mohammed Fareed - PeerSpot reviewer
Azure DevOps Lead at DXC Technology

I find the auto-scaling feature very good because rather than manually decreasing the number of nodes, we can define the threshold.

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Stephen Adeniyi - PeerSpot reviewer
Kubernetes Consultant, Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

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. 

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RahulKumar9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Rapyder Cloud Solutions Pvt Ltd

The best feature is autoscaling. It's effortless to use for scaling deployment parts, CI/CD, etc. 

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Dinesh-Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

One of the most valuable features is the ability to manage containers and pods. The solution monitors if applications are live and if issues are picked up, it automatically resolves these. This solution keeps our application in working condition. 

This is an open source solution, which gives the community the opportunity to request specific features which the Kubernetes team then work on and add to the solution.

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Danilo Guilherme Oliveira - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. DevOps Engineer at BairesDev

The most valuable feature of Kubernetes is container orchestration.

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AjayThapar - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Engineering at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The clustering is the most valuable aspect of the solution. Reviewing all the servers and hardware from one common place is great. That is the best part of it.

The solution is stable and reliable.

It's scalable. 

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VR
Cloud Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The performance is good.

The services it provides you are good.

It runs in multiple availability zones.

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EP
Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

All the current features are quite harmonic, and they require each other.

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SK
System Administrator at Confidential

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. If one part fails, it will recreate that component only, without disrupting the application. Another valuable feature, unlike other solutions that use the imperative way of programming this solution uses the declarative way, so you only need to describe the end result and it will do everything to arrive at that state.

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ME
Production Systems Engineer at Enwe

The most valuable feature of Kubernetes is the integration with other solutions, such as Formative and Grafana.

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DK
Solution Architect | Head of BizDev at Greg Solutions

The most valuable features of Kubernetes are:

  1. Containers self-healing and self-recovery.
  2. Unifications allow for internal Kubernetes components to be migrated between Kubernetes providers in an easier manner.
  3. Kubernetes as a service from the major cloud providers including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Digital Ocean, IBM, etc. Kubernetes as a service helps in infrastructure migration from on-premises to cloud, or from cloud to cloud.
  4. This product has a rich toolset from the community including CNI plug-ins, Helm packages, operators, dashboards, various integrations, etc.
  5. Built-in scaling features, it's really great!
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Jonnathan Quijano - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Architect at Novatec Solutions

The full concept behind Kubernetes is quite good in terms of trying to really take full advantage of the resources you have. You can separate your company by names, et cetera. 

The scalability seems quite good also.

It seems that there is a community behind the solution that is supporting a lot of additional features that can be included in Kubernetes to integrate with other providers or software.

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JS
Practice Director, Global Infrastructure Services at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the Zero Touch Operations, which involves a new way of performing operations and support. We do not have to do maintenance, the operations are very simple.

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SA
Devops Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

I like that it gives you all the flexibility, for example, auto-scaling. Everything is figured out exactly right. It manages all your workloads without much intervention. It can scale in, scale out, and with security. Everything looks pretty good compared to the old legacy way of working.

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ChaitanyaMahanthi - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I am impressed with the product's coupling of resources and flexibility. 

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JB
Engineer at SLT Visioncom Pvt Ltd

Kubernetes is a leading container orchestration solution, known for its simplicity and ease of use. Being open-source, it benefits from large community support, including enterprise support. Many companies offer their own version of Kubernetes, making it widely adopted and supported in the industry.

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RR
Devops Engineer at Deluxe Entertainment Services Group

The most valuable feature of Kubernetes is automation. It is the best tool for automation.

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AA
Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

There are features that come out of the box with Kubernetes, with respect to scaling, reliability, etc. It's the leading container management platform. There are other competing ones, but this is the leading one.

It has multiple instances of the application running. If one of them goes down, the other one automatically spins up.

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SR
Information Security Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is the most valuable feature.

With Kubernetes, you also get High Availability.

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SJ
Director Of Sales Marketing at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The Kubernetes cluster is easy to maintain on the container orchestration. It's very stable with outward scalability and good performance which is very important for our platform. Kubernetes is a good choice to maintain the containerized application and solution. 

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MA
Citrix Engineer at Orient Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Kubernetes' most valuable features include scalability and deployment.

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RR
Co-Founder and Architect at a tech company with 1-10 employees

A valuable feature is the management of containers and not having to worry about the high availability or scalability, especially when launching it in the cloud. I like that they provide a managed platform as a service, and you don't really have to worry too much about the master nodes that control the workloads. You tell them what you want: This is a minimum number of container instance, or a maximum number of container instance in this tier. It automatically gets taken care of. What I like about Kubernetes is that it actually manages the containers for you so there are no concerns  regarding availability. If something fails, it launches another one and it scales out which is good. 

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AM
Lead Solutions Architect at DXC

I like the interface of this solution. When you're using it in real time, it seems to be a little easier to use versus the other options. 

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GC
IT Director at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

A valuable feature of Kubernetes is its high availability. It's really scalable and more efficient for resource management on the bare metal server on which it runs as opposed to vSphere or pretty much anything else that we've tried before. 

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OK
Solution Architect at KIAN company

Kubernetes offers a lot of great features such as scalability and great portability of applications.

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AT
Senior Software Developer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The ease of use in the solution is a very valuable aspect for us.

The scalability of the product is excellent. Scalability is particularly important to us due to the fact that we have available traffic that requires our service to scale up and down according to the load on the service.

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VF
Manager-Platform Team / Technical Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

They've introduced an enterprise option, which is quite helpful. 

It is always up to date. They're also automatically updating when the new version is ready.

There's a lot of community support if you need to get help. 

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BalakrishnanS - PeerSpot reviewer
Engeener at Dell EMC

The solution is easy to use.

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JG
Architect Watermanagement at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

The easy deployment of containers is one of the main features I have found useful. In large scale developments, it is less hassle working with containers than virtual machines. It is easier to manage these containers instead of virtual machines, although there is a steep learning curve to graps the benefits of it.

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MS
DevOps Consultant at DevOpsGroup

The auto-repair function in Kubernetes is perfect. When something breaks, the auto-repair function automatically repairs it. If you are running the content in Kubernetes, you have a good setup. You do not need to do anything for the management of this. So, the automation of Kubernetes is number one.

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AkioShimizu - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Kubernetes is scalable and the elasticity is sustainable.

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AY
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Kubernetes' integration with AWS Lambda is great. I barely had to write any code to connect from EKS to Lambda, so Kubernetes is programmer friendly.

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SR
Executive Vice President at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The scanning and support network are the best features of this product. 

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MC
CEO at tamac GmbH

The most valuable aspect of the solution is the scalability.

Kubernetes is quite complex. That's the reason there are some companies that are developing tools simplifying the life of the administrator. There are Kubernetes distributions, like Rancher. Rancher is one of my favorites. There are others too, like OpenShift, for example.

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SY
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The stability of the solution is very reliable. The performance is good.

The implementation, and the way that they can, with a few clicks, load hundreds of machines without any trouble is very useful. We found the initial setup to be very straightforward.

There are a lot of benefits.

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SP
General manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

The solution is easy to use.

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KA
Solution Leader - Cloud Native and Container Platform at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I like the replication center and the configuration.

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SA
Multi-Cloud Consulting at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

One of Kubernetes' top features is its agility, it is very fast. You can deploy a container pretty quickly compared to a virtual machine. That is one strong feature. A second feature is its flexibility because you can use it on any platform. You can use it on Google or AWS or Microsoft or IBM or any clouds. So flexibility of deployment and agility are the top features. It also helps in your maintenance cycles when you do maintenance on your environment.

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AK
Testing Engineer at NeoSilica

Kubernetes' most valuable features are scaling, deployment, and container management. Its integration with other pipeline tools is also good.

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JH
Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I like Kubernetes' scalability, built-in redundancy, and ease of deployment.

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AA
Azure Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a very good solution for deploying microservices in an application. It has a lot of freedom in it, which makes it very interesting. 

It is also web-enabled. You can run services in other virtual applications and virtual machines. 

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SS
Junior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature is the support for Docker containers.

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Kubernetes
March 2024
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