Best Container Orchestration Tools

Container orchestration reviews covering upgrade pain, autoscaling behavior, networking complexity, managed versus self-hosted cost and ops burden.

10 products

Amazon Elastic Container Service
Amazon Elastic Container Service

by Amazon

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is AWS's container orchestration service for teams running containers on Fargate, EC2 or their own servers.

Features

Has Declarative scheduling with resource requests
Has Self-healing restart and rescheduling
Has Rolling updates with rollback
Has Workload autoscaling on metrics
Has Cluster node autoscaling
Has Built-in service discovery and load balancing
Has Ingress and external load balancer integration
Has Dynamic persistent volume provisioning
Has Config and secret injection into workloads
Missing Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas
Has Network policies between workloads
Has Managed control plane offering
Missing Multi-cluster management console
Missing Automated cluster version upgrades
Missing Helm chart application catalog
Missing GitOps reconciliation from a repository
Missing CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

by Amazon

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is AWS's managed Kubernetes service for container orchestration on AWS, on premises and at the edge, billed per cluster hour.

Features

Has Declarative scheduling with resource requests
Has Self-healing restart and rescheduling
Has Rolling updates with rollback
Has Workload autoscaling on metrics
Has Cluster node autoscaling
Has Built-in service discovery and load balancing
Has Ingress and external load balancer integration
Has Dynamic persistent volume provisioning
Has Config and secret injection into workloads
Missing Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas
Has Network policies between workloads
Has Managed control plane offering
Missing Multi-cluster management console
Has Automated cluster version upgrades
Missing Helm chart application catalog
Has GitOps reconciliation from a repository
Has CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

by Microsoft

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is Microsoft's managed Kubernetes service for teams on Azure, run in Automatic or Standard mode and priced per cluster.

Features

Has Declarative scheduling with resource requests
Has Self-healing restart and rescheduling
Missing Rolling updates with rollback
Has Workload autoscaling on metrics
Has Cluster node autoscaling
Has Built-in service discovery and load balancing
Has Ingress and external load balancer integration
Has Dynamic persistent volume provisioning
Has Config and secret injection into workloads
Has Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas
Has Network policies between workloads
Has Managed control plane offering
Missing Multi-cluster management console
Has Automated cluster version upgrades
Has Helm chart application catalog
Has GitOps reconciliation from a repository
Has CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance
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Civo Kubernetes
Civo Kubernetes

by Civo

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Civo Kubernetes is a managed Kubernetes service on K3s from UK cloud provider Civo, with a vendor-run control plane, for developers, startups and small teams.

Features

Has Declarative scheduling with resource requests
Missing Self-healing restart and rescheduling
Missing Rolling updates with rollback
Missing Workload autoscaling on metrics
Has Cluster node autoscaling
Missing Built-in service discovery and load balancing
Has Ingress and external load balancer integration
Has Dynamic persistent volume provisioning
Missing Config and secret injection into workloads
Missing Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas
Has Network policies between workloads
Has Managed control plane offering
Missing Multi-cluster management console
Missing Automated cluster version upgrades
Has Helm chart application catalog
Missing GitOps reconciliation from a repository
Has CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance
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DigitalOcean Kubernetes

by DigitalOcean

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DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is a managed Kubernetes service for developers, start-ups and AI teams, running containers on DigitalOcean Droplet worker nodes.

Features

Has Declarative scheduling with resource requests
Missing Self-healing restart and rescheduling
Missing Rolling updates with rollback
Has Workload autoscaling on metrics
Has Cluster node autoscaling
Has Built-in service discovery and load balancing
Has Ingress and external load balancer integration
Has Dynamic persistent volume provisioning
Missing Config and secret injection into workloads
Missing Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas
Has Network policies between workloads
Has Managed control plane offering
Missing Multi-cluster management console
Has Automated cluster version upgrades
Has Helm chart application catalog
Missing GitOps reconciliation from a repository
Has CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance
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Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine

by Google

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is Google Cloud's managed Kubernetes service, with an Autopilot mode in which Google runs the nodes, sold pay as you go.

Features

Has Declarative scheduling with resource requests
Missing Self-healing restart and rescheduling
Has Rolling updates with rollback
Has Workload autoscaling on metrics
Has Cluster node autoscaling
Has Built-in service discovery and load balancing
Has Ingress and external load balancer integration
Has Dynamic persistent volume provisioning
Has Config and secret injection into workloads
Has Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas
Has Network policies between workloads
Has Managed control plane offering
Has Multi-cluster management console
Has Automated cluster version upgrades
Has Helm chart application catalog
Has GitOps reconciliation from a repository
Has CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes

by The Linux Foundation

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Kubernetes is open source container orchestration for platform and DevOps teams, self-managed on premises or in any cloud and hosted by the CNCF.

Features

Has Declarative scheduling with resource requests
Has Self-healing restart and rescheduling
Has Rolling updates with rollback
Has Workload autoscaling on metrics
Has Cluster node autoscaling
Has Built-in service discovery and load balancing
Has Ingress and external load balancer integration
Has Dynamic persistent volume provisioning
Has Config and secret injection into workloads
Has Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas
Has Network policies between workloads
Missing Managed control plane offering
Missing Multi-cluster management console
Has Automated cluster version upgrades
Missing Helm chart application catalog
Missing GitOps reconciliation from a repository
Missing CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance
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Portainer
Portainer

by Portainer

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Portainer is a container management console for ops teams running Kubernetes, Docker, Swarm and Podman, sold per node with an open source edition.

Features

Has Declarative scheduling with resource requests
Missing Self-healing restart and rescheduling
Missing Rolling updates with rollback
Has Workload autoscaling on metrics
Missing Cluster node autoscaling
Missing Built-in service discovery and load balancing
Has Ingress and external load balancer integration
Has Dynamic persistent volume provisioning
Has Config and secret injection into workloads
Has Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas
Has Network policies between workloads
Missing Managed control plane offering
Has Multi-cluster management console
Missing Automated cluster version upgrades
Has Helm chart application catalog
Has GitOps reconciliation from a repository
Missing CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance
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Rancher
Rancher

by SUSE

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Rancher is SUSE's open source Kubernetes management platform for running many clusters across clouds, data centres and edge sites, with quoted paid editions.

Features

Missing Declarative scheduling with resource requests
Missing Self-healing restart and rescheduling
Has Rolling updates with rollback
Has Workload autoscaling on metrics
Has Cluster node autoscaling
Has Built-in service discovery and load balancing
Has Ingress and external load balancer integration
Has Dynamic persistent volume provisioning
Has Config and secret injection into workloads
Has Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas
Has Network policies between workloads
Missing Managed control plane offering
Has Multi-cluster management console
Has Automated cluster version upgrades
Has Helm chart application catalog
Has GitOps reconciliation from a repository
Missing CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance
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Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift

by IBM

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Red Hat OpenShift is a Kubernetes container platform for enterprises running applications across data centres and clouds, self-managed or as a managed service.

Features

Missing Declarative scheduling with resource requests
Has Self-healing restart and rescheduling
Has Rolling updates with rollback
Has Workload autoscaling on metrics
Has Cluster node autoscaling
Has Built-in service discovery and load balancing
Has Ingress and external load balancer integration
Has Dynamic persistent volume provisioning
Has Config and secret injection into workloads
Has Namespace isolation with RBAC and quotas
Has Network policies between workloads
Has Managed control plane offering
Missing Multi-cluster management console
Has Automated cluster version upgrades
Has Helm chart application catalog
Has GitOps reconciliation from a repository
Missing CNCF-certified Kubernetes conformance
Visit Profile
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