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Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS vs Upbound Crossplane comparison

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Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
465th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Upbound Crossplane
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

FilipGrasheski - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Containerization has streamlined deployments and supports diverse monitoring and web workloads
I would rate Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS a nine out of ten. I give it a nine because there is always room for improvement, so I would not give any product a perfect ten. Regarding Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security work quite well in terms of namespace isolation; the security is quite strong, but if you want something like image vulnerability scanning, it does not have anything built in, so you have to rely on third-party toolsets, and secret management is a bit of a downside. Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is pretty accurate regarding its AI capabilities and the accuracy and reliability of output. My advice to others looking into using Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is that if you are not using it, then try it. My overall review rating for Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is nine.
Diego Paradeda - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Philips
Automated infrastructure deployment has reduced our backend release time from days to hours
I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS. We encountered a problem where we needed to use the ID of the RDS in another document that we have, making it difficult to return this information using Upbound Crossplane deployment. I believe Upbound Crossplane could be improved by possibly having a feature that can return tags, IDs, or resources that were deployed inside AWS, such as needing to return the ID of the VPC that we create when using Upbound Crossplane. I think the current state of Upbound Crossplane is already good enough.

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

Pros

"Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has positively impacted my organization as it provides a good way to run our toolsets and applications."
"For us it is a small tool; it is not a big investment, so we are not tracking the ROI of the product directly, but I can tell you that it gives a lot of useful features and overall the ROI is worth it."
"Docker provides comprehensive support for any deployment process, maintenance, or surveillance of any kind of project because it offers CLI and APIs, Docker Hub, and Docker Desktop client."
"The best features Upbound Crossplane offers are infrastructure as Kubernetes APIs and self-service infrastructure, where developers can provision resources without cloud credentials, and its strong multi-cloud support that makes it useful in managing AWS, Azure, and GCP from a single control plane with valuable GitOps integration."
"We went from having a 28-member troubleshooting team down to four to five members of the platform engineering team."
"Upbound Crossplane impacts my organization positively because, from our perspective, we need to rely on fewer resources."
"The time required to complete an environment setup was reduced from about one or two weeks to forty to fifty minutes."
"Upbound Crossplane has impacted our organization positively as it has been a transformative experience because the main thing about transformation is how we were able to make our lives easier as engineers."
"Before choosing Upbound Crossplane, I evaluated various options, but I only found Upbound Crossplane to be the best choice."
"Upbound Crossplane has positively impacted our organization by reducing the pipeline time, saving time, and decreasing cost spending."
"Upbound Crossplane has positively impacted our organization by allowing us to reduce our deployment time from three days to three hours for the entire back-end and entire infrastructure."
 

Cons

"Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS can be improved, particularly as security features can always be enhanced, and the configuration is somewhat fragmented with different configuration files that can sometimes be cumbersome."
"Connecting two containers to each other is very tricky and time-consuming for me as a developer."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane's capabilities, I feel the governance and security is something which is lacking."
"One area where Upbound Crossplane can be improved is with API rate limiting."
"The documentation needs to be updated regarding the needed improvements for Upbound Crossplane. There is very little documentation online, and there are no tutorials for Upbound Crossplane."
"This was the only thing that we took as a disadvantage at the time of implementing, since we did not have any way to see what the Upbound Crossplane composition or what the Upbound Crossplane resource will do to the actual infrastructure."
"Regarding Upbound Crossplane, I see room for enhancement in synchronizing the state file of Crossplane with Terraform, as 90% of organizations have generally implemented Terraform and have their own specific, environment-specific Terraform state files."
"Upbound Crossplane can be improved if they can add more AI agentic workflows."
"However, one area of improvement is the learning curve, as Upbound Crossplane concepts such as providers, compositions, and claims can be difficult for beginners."
"I found an issue with features that was difficult for me when we needed to retrieve some tags or IDs of a resource that we deployed using Upbound Crossplane, for example, the RDS."
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Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
11%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is quite good as it is all official on Docker.
What needs improvement with Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?
Connecting two containers to each other is very tricky and time-consuming for me as a developer. Docker provides some encapsulation between containers, meaning they are separated from each other, a...
What is your primary use case for Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?
For deploying projects, I can deploy multiple projects on Docker Hub which runs on Ubuntu machines or Linux servers. I can create images of Postgres database, Node.js projects, or Java projects, an...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Upbound Crossplane?
I find the pricing, setup cost, and licensing of Upbound Crossplane very suitable for research and development.
What needs improvement with Upbound Crossplane?
One thing I have noticed about improving Upbound Crossplane is that, in Terraform, we can do a validation stage where people can say Terraform plan and see what changes it will do. It would be bett...
What is your primary use case for Upbound Crossplane?
Our main use case for Upbound Crossplane is that we are using Kubernetes as our main platform, and we have multiple clients who will be using this Kubernetes platform for deploying their container ...
 

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