Top 3 Tech Leaders in Container Management 2023
Discover the leading technology solutions in Container Management with PeerSpot's annual Tech Leaders awards. The awards are based on comprehensive user reviews and other criteria as outlined below, offering you a window into the top products in this category and a way to explore and compare outstanding products. Join us as we unveil the Peerspot 2023 Tech Leader award winners, helping you stay informed about the best-in-class solutions available.
Container Management products orchestrate and manage containerized applications across different environments. They provide container deployment, scaling, networking, and security, ensuring that containerized applications run efficiently and reliably. Key features often include container orchestration, automated scaling, and integration with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Often used in DevOps environments, they help streamline and optimize the deployment and management of applications in cloud-native environments.
The Award Winners
OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform facilitates the development, deployment, and management of containerized applications across various environments. It offers robust support for container orchestration using Kubernetes, simplifying complex container management tasks and integrating with a wide range of cloud services and middleware. OpenShift Container Platform provides a strong focus on security and enterprise-level features, including automated operations, built-in monitoring, and developer-friendly tools for building cloud-native applications. It can also automatically scale workloads based on real-time demand, enhancing resource utilization and efficiency. Additionally, OpenShift uniquely offers a hybrid cloud experience, enabling organizations to manage containers across on-premises data centers and public cloud, providing flexibility and control over deployment environments.
"Vanilla Kubernetes lacks security. We have role-based access controls to tune and perform grant-level access to specific service accounts, roles and permissions. There is very good isolation between the namespaces." - Vlado Velkovski, DevOps Architect, KIBS
"The auto scalability feature, which is based on smart agendas, determined from pre-prepared rules is the most valuable feature. You can also create different routes for deployment. Deployment types can be provided with an identifier, such as AB deployment. This really helped in rolling out releases without disrupting services for the end-users." - Awais Afzal, Digital Solution Technical Analyst, ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
"The console or the GUI of OpenShift is awesome. You can do a lot of things from there. You can perform administration tasks as well as development tasks. The RBAC user management that comes packaged with OpenShift is not there in other Kubernetes. That's a very nice feature." - Ritesh Raj, Senior Manager, Tech vendor
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open-source platform designed for automating the deployment, scaling, and operation of application containers across clusters of hosts. As a cornerstone in the field of container management, it provides key features such as load balancing, self-healing, and automated rollouts and rollbacks, making it efficient for managing containerized applications at scale. It features strong community support, an extensive ecosystem, and flexibility in integrating with various cloud providers. Kubernetes' extensibility enables the addition of functionalities via custom resources and operators, tailoring it to specific needs, and its efficient resource management capabilities allow for efficient utilization of underlying hardware resources.
"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." - Mahidhar K, Database Infrastructure Engineer, Computer Software Company
"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." - Pradeep Singh, DevOps Lead, Adidas
"Kubernetes is an excellent platform for hosting microservices, especially container-based microservices." - Roshan George Thallamore, Azure DevOps and Cloud Lead, Consultancy
Amazon EKS
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed container service that simplifies the process of running Kubernetes on AWS and in on-premises environments. EKS automates key tasks such as patching, node provisioning, and updates, enabling users to focus more on application development than infrastructure management. Its integration with AWS services, scalability, and security features all contribute to deploying and managing Kubernetes applications in the cloud. EKS supports both Windows and Linux containers, providing greater flexibility in application development.
"Amazon EKS with AWS is very good because we can connect our AWS Kubernetes Services with our CI/CD pipelines. We can integrate our EKS with our CloudWatch and Grafana, and other monitoring services are also available. We can also monitor as per our requirements." - Samim Kumar Patel, Cloud Architect & Devops engineer, KDM Consulting
"Since it is a managed service of AWS, Amazon EKS helps us in the managing and autoscaling of services. We don't have to worry about multiple things like managing the nodes or IP addresses and can focus on our work." - ShahRushabh, Solutions Architect, Infinite Computer Solutions
"The most important aspect of Amazon EKS is that it is easy to set up and very easy to upgrade. So we can focus on maintaining and deploying our microservice. It is also easy to scale and easy to monitor." - Khar Yeow Phang, Solution Architect, Tech Vendor
How Award Winners Are Determined
PeerSpot Tech Leaders Awards recognize the top products in a category based on real users' in-depth reviews, which are verified for authenticity. The ranking criteria include the number of reviews, views, and comparisons of each product, as well as the overall reviewer rating and the word count per review. The winning products are acknowledged as top performers within their category.
Summary
The Tech Leaders award is PeerSpot's most prestigious. Recipients have earned the esteem of industry professionals who use and review the products and compare them with their competition. Container Management solutions streamline the deployment, scaling, and orchestration of containerized applications, and the award winners, OpenShift Container Platform, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS have merited peer recognition as Tech Leaders in this category.
