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Kubernetes Everywhere vs SUSE Linux Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 11, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

Kubernetes Everywhere
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Managed Cloud Services (4th)
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
Operating Systems (OS) for Business (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Kubernetes Everywhere and SUSE Linux Enterprise aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Kubernetes Everywhere is designed for Managed Cloud Services and holds a mindshare of 6.4%, up 0.8% compared to last year.
SUSE Linux Enterprise, on the other hand, focuses on Operating Systems (OS) for Business, holds 4.6% mindshare, down 7.1% since last year.
Managed Cloud Services Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Kubernetes Everywhere6.4%
HPE GreenLake19.9%
Everpure Evergreen One18.6%
Other55.1%
Managed Cloud Services
Operating Systems (OS) for Business Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SUSE Linux Enterprise4.6%
Rocky Linux8.2%
Ubuntu Linux8.0%
Other79.2%
Operating Systems (OS) for Business
 

Featured Reviews

Manoday Ahire - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Reg-X Innovations
Modern deployment practices have reduced downtime and support efficient multi-app management
Kubernetes Everywhere offers features including auto-scaling, which is the best feature, as well as load balancing, ingress controllers, and the ability to host multiple applications on a single Kubernetes Everywhere cluster through segregation using namespaces. The commands are straightforward to execute, and it allows the integration and management of Docker containers efficiently. Auto-scaling is one of the features I use in Kubernetes Everywhere that made a significant impact, helping us with user distribution as the pods scale automatically without disruption as users increase, contributing to high availability and low downtime. I am using Kubernetes Everywhere with the GitOps approach, using Git as a source of truth, which provides excellent security and has made a significant change in our current infrastructure. Kubernetes Everywhere has positively impacted my organization by significantly reducing downtime. We have achieved almost zero minutes of downtime since implementing Kubernetes Everywhere in our organization after transitioning from manual deployments. Regarding cost savings, we were using multiple EC2 instances for different projects, but now everything is under one cluster, running as a pod and segregated by namespaces, leading to cost savings. For team collaboration, we are using different tools with Git as a source of truth, making it easy for developers to manage instances and gain insights efficiently.
MoezCHEBBI - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Lead DevOps Engineer at Kyndryl
Has delivered expert training and enabled smooth migrations using automated deployment tools
SUSE Linux Enterprise is a mature and reliable platform, but there are areas where it can be improved. Modernizing the system management tools is important as many users appreciate YaST for its centralized management, but there is a growing demand for more modern, web-based, and modular tools. The introduction of tools such as Agama, a web-based installer, and Cockpit in newer releases is a step in the right direction.SUSE has made progress with multi-Linux support, allowing organizations to manage and support not just SUSE systems but also other distributions such as Red Hat and CentOS; continuing to expand these capabilities, especially for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, will help organizations manage diverse infrastructure more effectively. Security is a top concern, and further strengthening default security policies, simplifying compliance management, and integrating advanced vulnerability management tools would be a valuable improvement.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Kubernetes Everywhere has impacted my organization positively because performance-wise, we don't have any downtimes, whereas earlier we used to have downtime."
"Kubernetes Everywhere is a very good tool with most of the features taken from Kubernetes open-source, and it works really well, is highly scalable with very low latency."
"Kubernetes Everywhere positively impacts our organization by making it quite easy to deploy different microservices for different languages; we simply build the Docker container and pass it to the YAML, and if anything breaks, debugging is straightforward because we know exactly where the issue is coming from."
"I have seen specific outcomes, with incidents having definitely reduced drastically from what it was a few years back; so certainly, I can see there is more than 25 to 50% reduction in the incidents since adopting Kubernetes Everywhere."
"Kubernetes Everywhere has positively impacted my organization with cost savings, where we have a good amount of savings around sixty thousand to seventy thousand USD per year."
"Kubernetes Everywhere is a premier operational asset for modern multi-cloud architecture, delivering standard, predictable workload orchestration across any underlying hardware engine with minimal setup complexity."
"Since we started using Kubernetes Everywhere, we brought all the applications in one place, which impacted the speed, security, and cost, and mainly the data, so the data stays in one place."
"Kubernetes Everywhere is easy to operate when you have a settled environment and easy to manage, offering high availability and fault tolerance with all high availability features, rich support of the latest technologies, vulnerability management, and easy management."
"The initial setup is simple and takes five minutes for deployment and if you have automation in place, it will take four minutes."
"It's a flexible solution."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise provides a stable, secure, and well-supported platform for enterprise workloads, with powerful management tools and robust support for clustering, cloud, and containers."
"It also was very easy to setup, and offered an easy to use advanced setup option as well. This helped to create special configurations for different use cases."
"The initial setup for most modern Linux distributions is normally straightforward. Most of the common distributions use an ncurses or GUI install."
"We use SUSE Linux Enterprise to migrate SAP workloads to the cloud."
"Some of the functionalities I like the most are the security features. This includes security restrictions on specific folders and secure communication for SFTP. These features are more secure and reliable. The tool also makes compliance possible."
"YaST simplifies the server management of SUSE allowing for a centralized utility to control most of the server functions."
 

Cons

"Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, running a Kubernetes cluster can be costly depending on the use case; however, running on GCP GKE is cheaper compared to AWS, making it relatively economical in our case."
"Customer support for Kubernetes Everywhere could be better."
"Due to poor planning of the application developers and resource management, I have seen crashes, downtimes, and performance issues."
"At this time, I may not have any improvement suggestions; I want to explore more, so the features currently provided satisfy me, but if there is anything Kubernetes Everywhere can share with modernization, that would be great."
"The ingress issue is the main concern for me because I continue to face ingress-related issues most of the time."
"It only loses a small amount of points because fine-tuning network policies across very strict, air-gapped, on-premise boundaries takes extra upfront coordination during the initial discovery week."
"Kubernetes Everywhere can be improved if it had more convenient commands, which would make it easier for me to remember all the commands in GCP for Kubernetes."
"Kubernetes Everywhere can be improved by providing an easier way for users to handle commands and developing a UI-based approach to make it easier for developers and semi-technical users, as well as focusing on improving containerization."
"I would like to see better functionality for interacting with cloud-based systems."
"We previously had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE Manager, but the issue was resolved."
"The price of SUSE Linux Enterprise could improve, it is too expensive."
"I would like to see GUI improved, it could be more user-friendly."
"In the next release it would be nice to see more integration and better automation of processes."
"The software management side was a bit difficult, especially compared to Ubuntu."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise can be improved by having more documentation or logging systems available on the internet, as we face difficulties troubleshooting issues without sufficient resources."
"All distributions of Linux could use some improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Regarding pricing, everybody would want it to be cheaper."
"The license we pay is for Oracle. We make use of the community edition."
"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"The product is expensive. We purchase its yearly license."
"There is no license for this solution, there is only a subscription of support available."
"The price of SUSE Linux Enterprise could be cheaper. Other solutions, such as"
"There is a free tier and a paid support tier. If you do not need support, then the solution is free to use. If you need support then there is an option for that as well."
"When we first implemented this product, we had licenses for support."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
31%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Leisure / Travel Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise23
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kubernetes Everywhere?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Kubernetes Everywhere, I have not deployed it from scratch, so I am not aware of the pricing and the setup cost. However, I know ...
What needs improvement with Kubernetes Everywhere?
I think Kubernetes Everywhere could be better for me. Two years ago, I faced ingress-related issues where our application exposes multiple ports and we bind different DNS with different ingress con...
What is your primary use case for Kubernetes Everywhere?
My main use case for Kubernetes Everywhere is managing production and development clusters for updating and maintaining clusters, nodes, and upgrading the node Kubernetes version as required. I som...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SUSE Linux Enterprise?
I would rate pricing for SUSE Linux Enterprise considering one is a high price and ten is a low price.
What needs improvement with SUSE Linux Enterprise?
SUSE can make improvements to SUSE Linux Enterprise. I have suggestions about what they can add to the product to simplify users' lives. They need to intensely work on their marketing strategy.
What is your primary use case for SUSE Linux Enterprise?
I understand your point regarding my current use case for SUSE Linux Enterprise. I want to know if the purchase process is mostly directly from SUSE or through the AWS Marketplace, and what ways I ...
 

Also Known As

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
 

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Sample Customers

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Air India, Akademicki Szpital Kliniczny (ASK), Allone, Altran, Apollo, ARCHIVA, Asia Innovatory Management School, ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GmbH, AutoData Norge AS, Baldor Electric, Business Connexion, CASIO, Ciclum Farma, Delta Lloyd, Edumate , HPE,  SAP SE,  Lenovo, BMW, T-Systems, UCX, Turners & Growers, Shenzhen Development Bank, Bosch Group, JK Tyres & Industries, IOCL, European Space Agency, Daimler AG, China Minsheng Banking Corp, Café Coffee Day, Unisys,  Petrochina Company Ltd, Fitch Ratings, ABeam Consulting Co Ltd, Tyro Payments, Rackspace, Pacific Textiles, ...
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