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Why did you feel IBM is best when you only use K8S? Our platform fully K8S and I'm looking to somewhere where we get more performance per buck, probably not IBM but I'm surprised it's even in the list. Do they have an extra nice K8S dashboard or something?

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Not sure where you're currently at and considering moving to, but GKE has been much simpler than EKS. Not sure about cost but it'll likely save some operations time (auto scaling is a single check box, no IAM, scaling controllers, etc)

IME GKE on GCP is top-tier if you want a painless managed k8s offering. I've been running my business on it (solo founder) since ~2017 with minimal fuss. Hosting a couple dozen WP sites and some bespoke webapps/apis.

Second this question. Never heard of IBM being exceptional for k8s. Curious to know what makes OP say it’s so good.

Hi, I was in an IBM Startup Accelerator. I just got the feeling that they were pushing for it hardcore. Gave us startup credit, free training and free premium support for K8s. So If you want to go with K8s and you are a Startup, that is the best offering I experienced.

Maybe they're using Openshift (OKD). Openshift has a bunch of value add features they add a template marketplace and turn it into a hybrid PaaS with some other multitenancy management bits afaik

OKD is slightly different than the OpenShift (OCP) provided on IBM Cloud. OpenShift is on all clouds but IIRC OpenShift on IBM Cloud receives OCP updates first.

I'd throw in stability, IAM, storage and the management plane.

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