Principal Cloud Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
2024-09-12T15:23:00Z
Sep 12, 2024
The setup process could be more user-friendly, and additional documentation would be beneficial. Additionally, the overall documentation could be improved to be more concise and available, similar to the documentation provided by AWS.
If any customer uses a traditional code, the code-level changes take a lot of time. Once that is done, there are no challenges. After that, it is pretty straightforward. It would be good if the vendor could provide an out-of-the-box solution that would enable customers to deploy things directly without worrying about code-level changes. Then, the customer does not have to worry about developing the solution again or adding new libraries to the existing code to make the code cloud-ready.
One difference from Google Cloud is that AKS wants you to manage it from within the platform rather than more integratively or programmatically. But it just loses out because you have less access to it programmatically, with less technical or customizable access.
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Director, Digital Strategy and Architecture at Cognizant
Real User
Top 20
2023-07-14T15:43:00Z
Jul 14, 2023
One area that could be improved is the Azure CLI. It would be beneficial if they could abstract some of the complexities related to deployment scripts and make them a part of Azure CLI. This would help reduce the scripting required in the DevOps pipeline for deployments. In future releases, it would be great to have more container management functions available directly on Kubernetes. For example, auto-scaling features and the ability to configure the initial number of container replicas and memory allocation from the console itself. This would minimize the need for developers to manually modify the manifest file most of the time. It could provide an additional layer of protection and security, allowing only authorized personnel to make changes to the manifest, while others can modify configurations through the web console for specific services when necessary.
AKS could enhance its functionality by introducing a blueprint feature that streamlines and expedites the process. With a blueprint, users can leverage pre-defined configurations, including some common survey elements, reducing the need for extensive customization and allowing us to focus on our core business activities. Additionally, if the blueprint covers security aspects, it would be greatly beneficial, as it eliminates the need for us to build security expertise from scratch. Currently, we encounter challenges during cloud onboarding, security implementation, and adapting to Kubernetes. Although Microsoft may not consider these as their direct responsibility, providing a blueprint similar to what they offer to developers would be highly advantageous.
Solutions Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 5
2023-04-06T15:25:10Z
Apr 6, 2023
There are no missing features. It needs better secrets management. It would be nice if they could handle the management of personal information more efficiently. Debugging can be a difficult process. From day to day perspective, we've been happy with it.
The solution provides a good foundation but there is a good amount of work to do to reach a full-fledged production grade platform. There is an entire ecosystem of tooling around the solution. Th solution could be an improved by providing an add-on ready to install for the most common tooling around Kubernetes.
The cost of the solution is extremely high. Both Amazon and Azure cost extremely high. We think it over ten times before giving the solution to clients. No matter how many offerings the solution provides, it becomes a burden that you are not getting back your invested money from customers. This is the reason why these two services do not take off too much. For example, you will end up paying somewhere around $20-30 per customer for data every month, which is extremely high. If we try to figure it out with some other things, we may come down to a certain sense. It is a couple thousand people, so a thousand times higher. I think that no business owner would want those things.
We would like to see the addition of a service report from the server for this solution, so that we can monitor the health of server operations. The monitoring functions should be more better in this solution as a whole, as currently the logging is difficult to understand, which makes it difficult to find issues in production.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a fully managed container orchestration service provided by Microsoft Azure. It simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications using Kubernetes. With AKS, developers can focus on building applications while Azure takes care of the underlying infrastructure. It offers features like automatic scaling, monitoring, and security, ensuring high availability and reliability. AKS integrates seamlessly with other Azure services,...
No improvements needed as Azure Kubernetes Service follows the Kubernetes standards very well and meets the required standards.
The setup process could be more user-friendly, and additional documentation would be beneficial. Additionally, the overall documentation could be improved to be more concise and available, similar to the documentation provided by AWS.
The cost of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is extremely high.
If any customer uses a traditional code, the code-level changes take a lot of time. Once that is done, there are no challenges. After that, it is pretty straightforward. It would be good if the vendor could provide an out-of-the-box solution that would enable customers to deploy things directly without worrying about code-level changes. Then, the customer does not have to worry about developing the solution again or adding new libraries to the existing code to make the code cloud-ready.
In terms of cost perspective, they could make the product more affordable.
One difference from Google Cloud is that AKS wants you to manage it from within the platform rather than more integratively or programmatically. But it just loses out because you have less access to it programmatically, with less technical or customizable access.
More control over Infra scanning can be introduced.
The product’s cost could be reduced.
The solution should improve its UI and cost.
One area that could be improved is the Azure CLI. It would be beneficial if they could abstract some of the complexities related to deployment scripts and make them a part of Azure CLI. This would help reduce the scripting required in the DevOps pipeline for deployments. In future releases, it would be great to have more container management functions available directly on Kubernetes. For example, auto-scaling features and the ability to configure the initial number of container replicas and memory allocation from the console itself. This would minimize the need for developers to manually modify the manifest file most of the time. It could provide an additional layer of protection and security, allowing only authorized personnel to make changes to the manifest, while others can modify configurations through the web console for specific services when necessary.
The product should make the initial setup easier. The product should provide an online format where I can see, read, study and research it on demand.
AKS could enhance its functionality by introducing a blueprint feature that streamlines and expedites the process. With a blueprint, users can leverage pre-defined configurations, including some common survey elements, reducing the need for extensive customization and allowing us to focus on our core business activities. Additionally, if the blueprint covers security aspects, it would be greatly beneficial, as it eliminates the need for us to build security expertise from scratch. Currently, we encounter challenges during cloud onboarding, security implementation, and adapting to Kubernetes. Although Microsoft may not consider these as their direct responsibility, providing a blueprint similar to what they offer to developers would be highly advantageous.
Configuration management and troubleshooting performance issues are difficult to solve and could be made easier.
The solution could provide even better integration functions.
There are no missing features. It needs better secrets management. It would be nice if they could handle the management of personal information more efficiently. Debugging can be a difficult process. From day to day perspective, we've been happy with it.
The solution provides a good foundation but there is a good amount of work to do to reach a full-fledged production grade platform. There is an entire ecosystem of tooling around the solution. Th solution could be an improved by providing an add-on ready to install for the most common tooling around Kubernetes.
The cost of the solution is extremely high. Both Amazon and Azure cost extremely high. We think it over ten times before giving the solution to clients. No matter how many offerings the solution provides, it becomes a burden that you are not getting back your invested money from customers. This is the reason why these two services do not take off too much. For example, you will end up paying somewhere around $20-30 per customer for data every month, which is extremely high. If we try to figure it out with some other things, we may come down to a certain sense. It is a couple thousand people, so a thousand times higher. I think that no business owner would want those things.
We would like to see the addition of a service report from the server for this solution, so that we can monitor the health of server operations. The monitoring functions should be more better in this solution as a whole, as currently the logging is difficult to understand, which makes it difficult to find issues in production.
I would like to see a graphical user interface.
I would like to see the stability get more synchronized.
The technical support could be faster and they should improve it.