Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE Reviews

 I am the company's senior systems engineer.

Karbon is embedded in the hypervisor, there are no deployment costs and the administration is via Prism Central. You need to know about Kubernetes for the part you intend to containerize. 

There have been cases where we've deployed with Karbon and haven't seen that it includes errors. There's no way to see them without going into the logs. It would be helpful to have a more verbose GUI, more information, in order to know what's going on with the installation and the process. Karbon is a relatively new feature for Nutanix and the documentation is not completely up to date.  

The implementation is very straightforward but you need to have some familiarity or knowledge of Kubernetes, because there's a lot of Kubernetes involved in troubleshooting. The general console is only for management but when it comes to the day-to-day jobs, you need to have more knowledge of Kubernetes or Dockers. Our DevOps team deals with maintenance of the solution.

The implementation of Karbon is free, it's included in the hypervisor as part of the package. 

I rate this solution seven out of 10. 

Our customer uses the solution for application modernization and to deploy their application in the container platform.

We get the entire solution in Nutanix's single console. The deployment was very easy when we deployed OpenShift on Nutanix.

The user interface could be improved.

I have been using Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE for ten years. We are using V6.7 of the solution.

We deploy this solution to small businesses.

I rate the solution’s scalability a ten out of ten.

The initial setup takes four to five hours to complete.

I rate the initial setup a five out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

The product is affordable.

I rate the product’s pricing a four out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We are using this solution on the microservices site, and the Kubernetes site to execute microservices.

We use it for Kubernetes, and we run the microservices underneath it. It's for container management.

I like health checks and management features. You can easily see if something is not working properly. Also, I like the resource allocation. It's very good. If you want to add more resources, you can do it on the fly.

The dashboards are good. The backend also works very well.

I would like to be able to do a dynamic resource increase and make adjustments. That would be a fantastic feature. It would automatically increase them and it would automatically discard them.

In the next release, I would like to have automatic dynamic scaling, both upscaling and downscaling.

I have been using this solution for six months.

This is a stable solution.

This solution is scalable.

The technical support is excellent.

The initial setup was straightforward. It took us a day to deploy it from scratch.

I would recommend using this product, it's very good.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.