HPE Ezmeral Container Platform vs Kubernetes comparison

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

Read 79 Kubernetes reviews

2,696 Views
2,669 Comparison Views

98% willing to recommend

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and Kubernetes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Container Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed HPE Ezmeral Container Platform vs. Kubernetes Report (Updated: December 2025).

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform vs. Kubernetes

December 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 881,082 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

Ranking in Container Management

16th

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Kubernetes

Ranking in Container Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is 1.4%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kubernetes is 6.1%, up from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Kubernetes	6.1%
HPE Ezmeral Container Platform	1.4%
Other	92.5%

Container Management

Featured Reviews

Chaianan Chaiyakeereepong

Pre-Sale at Yip Intsoi

Effective cost management achieved with robust storage features but user experience and data management require improvements

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is not user-friendly and has many parts that are more difficult than Cloudera. It is also a complex solution and has low features for data management. For example, it cannot make a data catalog or process data lineage without third-party support, which increases the cost for development.

Read full review

Leonardo Brito

Site Reliability Engineer at Tiendanube

Migration to managed containers has accelerated microservice deployments and reduced downtime

I am using add-ons for EKS Kubernetes that stand out to me. The useful add-ons help with administrating multiple clusters and accounts in AWS. My company uses Kubernetes for microservices within the organization. I advise others to look into using Kubernetes and not to pursue other options. Kubernetes is something I want to emphasize before we wrap up. I have given this review an overall rating of 80.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"If customers focus on primary apps or if they are using them for data science, this is a good solution."

"The stability of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is good, and I rate it an eight out of ten."

"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."

"A good interface, better than comparable solutions."

"Kubernetes also offers rollback control and auto-scaling capabilities, which are crucial for maintaining an application's availability even if nodes or pods go down."

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

"The most valuable feature of Kubernetes is its support for load balancing."

"This product has a rich toolset from the community including CNI plug-ins, Helm packages, operators, dashboards, various integrations, etc."

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

"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."

More Kubernetes pros

Cons

"The modernization in Ezmeral could be improved."

"HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is not user-friendly and has many parts that are more difficult than Cloudera. It is also a complex solution and has low features for data management."

"The dashboard, monitoring, and login need improvements."

"The solution does not work with third-party tools, or alternative cloud providers, which limits the extent that we can utilize it to."

"The network policies and RBAC management across multi-clusters could be improved. This is an issue we're trying to solve in the market."

"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."

"They should update Kubernetes more regularly."

"It would be helpful if the UI were more graphical."

"The Kubernetes dashboard can be improved. It is currently a mess. We were using Rancher earlier, and everyone was happy with the dashboard. Right now, we are using Kubernetes, and it's not working with Microsoft workstations. We still have problems with the dashboard. It's terrible."

"The solution has some issues regarding availability during high loads. Worker nodes are sometimes unavailable, affecting the overall availability of the applications. This is a bug or underlying problem with the tool, and Azure and other providers are looking into improving this by releasing new versions of Kubernetes that fix some of the platform's issues."

More Kubernetes cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available

"I am using the solution's open-source version."

"Microsoft provides reasonable costs for Kubernetes."

"We use the solution's open-source version."

"If you're using a public cloud, the cost depends on the number of nodes you are planning to deploy Kubernetes on."

"There is a license to use Kubernetes."

"There are no licensing fees."

"Pricing isn't a major concern for us. Since we resell Kubernetes services and focus on providing support, integration, and education, we don't usually have pricing issues. Our customers are more concerned with getting the right support and services than the cost. So, the value we provide is more important than the actual pricing. Pricing might change in the future, but it’s not a big issue for us right now."

"I would say the solution is worth the money, but it depends on the required workloads, the type of workload, and the scaling requirements etc."

More Kubernetes pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Container Management solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

881,082 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Real Estate/Law Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	47

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with HPE Ezmeral Container Platform?

What is your primary use case for HPE Ezmeral Container Platform?

We want to replace the existing Cloudera data lake with HPE Ezmeral Container Platform ( /products/hpe-ezmeral-container-platform-reviews ).

What advice do you have for others considering HPE Ezmeral Container Platform?

I rate the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform seven out of ten because it has strong features for storage but lacks certain data management functionalities, requiring additional investments for third-p...

What do you like most about Kubernetes?

There are many good features. I feel that the scale-out features, like replica sets, are very good. The number of running containers can be autoscaled.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kubernetes?

I have had a good experience with pricing, but the setup costs are high.

What needs improvement with Kubernetes?

Kubernetes can be improved, though I cannot specify exactly how at this time.

Docker vs HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

Comparisons

Compared 21% of the time

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform vs HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

Compared 18% of the time

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) vs HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

Compared 10% of the time

VMware Tanzu Platform vs HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

Compared 9% of the time

Amazon EKS vs HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

Compared 6% of the time

More HPE Ezmeral Container Platform Competitors

VMware Tanzu Platform vs Kubernetes

Compared 19% of the time

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) vs Kubernetes

Compared 12% of the time

Portainer vs Kubernetes

Compared 10% of the time

HashiCorp Nomad vs Kubernetes

Compared 7% of the time

Google Kubernetes Engine vs Kubernetes

Compared 5% of the time

More Kubernetes Competitors

Product Reports

Download HPE Ezmeral Container Platform product report

Container Management

December 2025

Download Kubernetes product report

January 2026

Also Known As

No data available

Overview

Accelerate your journey to hybrid cloud with the industry’s first enterprise-grade container software platform for cloud-native and distributed non-cloud native applications.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

Sample Customers

data iku, StreamSets, unravel

China unicom, NetEase Cloud, Nav, AppDirect