Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Reviews & Product Details

The best thing about AKS are:

1. It is easy to create and manage as compared to EKS, GKE, or other orchestration tools.

2. The secret store csi driver is yet another best feature to integrate keyvault with aks to manage confidential secrets.

3. We can integrate ACR with AKS just by providing the ACRPull role to the AKS managed identity is also a great feature as we don't need to secret imagePullSecret for that.

4. We can seamlessly manage cluster autoscaling for high availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well overall AKS is one of my favourite orchestration tool but there are some disadvantages as well:

1. There's lot of headache while upgrading the cluster to the new Kubernetes version.

2. We cannot use tools like karpenter to reduce the cost consumption of AKS.

3. There's no such support for spot nodes eviction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Managed Service. It takes care of masters, nodes, etcd storage and everything. No need to create the infra needed; AKS service automatically takes care of it.

- We use it to host our infrastructure - compute, memory and it helps us in autoscaling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- It does not support custom docker images. So while pulling the image, if it's integrated, the pull time takes less. However, due to the lack of this support, it takes longer for the pods to come up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best features of Azure Kubernetes Service are easy scalability, simple UI and the power to control your production grade server right from the azure UI console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing that I dislike about Azure Kubernetes service is the lag and slowness when operating the cluster via Azure CLI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In AKS, the master node is free, unlike in AWS. AKS also features native integration with Azure DevOps and built-in support for GitOps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AKS lacks the latest version of Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- I love its features, adaptability of any endpoints, connectivity to the cloud

- Azure keeps updating the features of AKS and there are lots of documents and articles if you need to integrate much-needed service

- Its easy to use auto-scaling technology on underlying Virtual machines where AKS easily manages it

- Customer support is also quite awesome and you get responses as well as on time updates about security, features etc

- Implementation and deployment of the service is pretty quick and user-friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't see anything bad, unwanted, or not good in AKS

This is a hot and up-to-date service in the market, which helps people and companies to adopt container technologies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

very easy deployment of Kubernetes in azure cloud, networking storage, nodes, patches everything is managed by microsoft azure cloud.

azure has custom made monitoring to monitor kubernetes cluster health and nodes monitoring.

ease of updates applying to the nodes in kubernetes.

ease of support of ingress controller.

networking.

aks managed command line to manage deploy application containers within kubernetes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

billing abstraction, not a very well itemized billing on of infrastructure used.

master node in completely controlled by azure backend and not visible to the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seamless orchestration of the docker containers for all your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation can be improved for the AKS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be easily integrated with the in-house applications to host it on AKS as a Microservices, It provides high availability and scalability.

It provides a private environment to deploy our applications and also store images in Azure Container Registry, along with this AKS also offers higher security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost associate with managing and running AKS is high as compared to other cloud service providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Azure Kubernetes Service for hosting some of our micro services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not like that fact there are a whole bunch of annotations which seem to be missing or have not been built yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Comparatively fast to provison then other Managed Kubernetes Service, out of the box integration with Azure DevOps, Support for Windows nodes, Managed Identity for Azure Conatiner Registry and Support for Inbuilt Ingress Controller. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the scanning of the images both in the cluster during runtime and in the registry is not that clear and simple to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.