Name: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4.1 (42 reviews)

Aman Shukla

Consultant Specialist at Birlasoft IndiaLtd.

Dec 11, 2022

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Excellent, fast scalability, ongoing satisfied company culture, with quality features

Pros and Cons

"I have enjoyed working with all the features."

"I would like to see the stability get more synchronized."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case is for deploying the Docker images, which we are working on.

What is most valuable?

I have enjoyed working with all the features.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see the stability get more synchronized.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for the past eight or nine months.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Sometimes the cluster is just hung up for some time. Maybe the services are just in a syncing state. They are not regularly syncing it via Argo CD. These are some of the issues we have faced. We have not faced this every day, but from time to time maybe twice a month.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

There is good scalability in the current environment. We have currently around one thousand using the solution.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is complex for me.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We are using Microsoft tools and that is why we went ahead with the Microsoft company culture.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

reviewer1601595

Operations Team Lead at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Nov 22, 2022

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A user-friendly solution helpful in decentralizing all access policies

Pros and Cons

"The setup was straightforward and it took one hour to deploy."
"Azure is more user-friendly compared to AWS and GCP."

"The technical support could be faster."
"The technical support could be faster and they should improve it."

What is our primary use case?

All our microservices are deployed with Azure Kubernetes Service.

What is most valuable?

RBAC is useful for us to decentralize all access policies. We have a lot of features on the cloud. Azure is more user-friendly compared to AWS and GCP.

What needs improvement?

The technical support could be faster and they should improve it.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for four years and it is a cloud solution.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a scalable solution. All our end users use this solution and we have plans to increase the usage. We need at leasr two members to maintain and they have intermediate level knowledge and are engineers.