HPE Ezmeral Container Platform vs Kubernetes comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Kubernetes are both solutions in the Container Management category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.0, while Kubernetes is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 1.4% mindshare in CM, compared to Kubernetes’s 4.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Kubernetes users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform

Ranking in Container Management

16th

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Kubernetes

Ranking in Container Management

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is 1.4%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kubernetes is 4.9%, down from 9.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Chaianan Chaiyakeereepong

Pre-Sale at Yip Intsoi

Effective cost management achieved with robust storage features but user experience and data management require improvements

HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is not user-friendly and has many parts that are more difficult than Cloudera. It is also a complex solution and has low features for data management. For example, it cannot make a data catalog or process data lineage without third-party support, which increases the cost for development.

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Venu Boddu

AWS DevOps Engineer at Hexaware Technologies Limited

Manage infrastructure automation and smooth application deployment with robust auto-scaling capabilities

Kubernetes is highly valuable for its node-based setup, which allows for the running of multiple pods. This feature is essential for infrastructure automation and application deployment. Kubernetes also offers rollback control and auto-scaling capabilities, which are crucial for maintaining an application's availability even if nodes or pods go down. Additionally, Kubernetes supports load balancing to distribute traffic efficiently across multiple pods.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"If customers focus on primary apps or if they are using them for data science, this is a good solution."

"The stability of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is good, and I rate it an eight out of ten."

"The most valuable feature is the Zero Touch Operations, which involves a new way of performing operations and support. We do not have to do maintenance, the operations are very simple."

"Having fast storage classes is very important."

"The best feature is autoscaling. It's effortless to use for scaling deployment parts, CI/CD, etc."

"The scanning and support network."

"I like the replication center and the configuration."

"All the current features are quite harmonic."

"Kubernetes has everything. Its design structure is quite advanced, and its offerings are extensive. The practical feature was the seamless failover."

"Kubernetes offers a lot of great features such as scalability and great portability of applications."

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Cons

"The modernization in Ezmeral could be improved."

"HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is not user-friendly and has many parts that are more difficult than Cloudera. It is also a complex solution and has low features for data management."

"It would be nice if they could make it easier for developers and infrastructure staff to automate some of the pieces that they have to do manually at the moment."

"The user-interface in regards to the other solution can be improved."

"The setup and operation of the product should be simplified."

"Security could be improved. It would be helpful if there were other security modules built into Kubernetes."

"We would to have additional features related to security within the API, instead of needing to install add-ons."

"Kubernetes can be used for most companies, but for some companies that may be too small, it may not be worth the investment, as it is expensive."

"This product should have a more advanced built-in scheduler that uses real application metrics in the scheduling strategy."

"There is room for improvement in this area, as Kubernetes could benefit from having more integrations, such as for scanning vulnerabilities."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Kubernetes is open source and is an orchestration platform. It is a cost effective solution and its pricing depends on your company and how you use it"

"Kubernetes is open source. But we have to manage Kubernetes as a team, and the overhead is a bit high. Compared with the platforms like Cloud Foundry, which has a much less operational overhead. Kubernetes, I have to manage the code, and I have to hire the developers. If someone has a product, a developer should know exactly what he's writing or high availability, and all those things may differ the costs."

"This is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs associated with its use."

"There is no licensing fee."

"In addition to Kubernetes, you have to pay for support."

"Kubernetes is an open-source solution that can be free. We have some distribution with licenses, such OpenShift and Tucows in Amazon. They are billing services."

"You need to pay for a license if you buy branded products. For example, if you take the services from Azure, AWS, or Google, the price of the Kubernetes cluster is inclusive of the service that's being offered to us on a pay-and-use model."

"We use the solution's open-source version."

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Top Industries

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Government

16%

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

14%

University

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

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Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with HPE Ezmeral Container Platform?

Thank you for initiating this discussion on the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and seeking community feedback on areas for improvement. While the platform has its strengths, some users have express...

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What do you like most about Kubernetes?

There are many good features. I feel that the scale-out features, like replica sets, are very good. The number of running containers can be autoscaled.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kubernetes?

Since we use Kubernetes on-premises, the costs are related to our expertise and the personnel we hire.

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What needs improvement with Kubernetes?

Although we face issues when migrating to new versions of Kubernetes, such as misunderstandings on using new features or integration with proxy services, these issues can be addressed with proper p...

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Overview

Accelerate your journey to hybrid cloud with the industry’s first enterprise-grade container software platform for cloud-native and distributed non-cloud native applications.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

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