Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Reviews & Product Details

What I like best about AKS is that it simplifies Kubernetes management a lot compared to handling clusters manually. It integrates well with the Azure ecosystem, scales reliably, and makes container orchestration easier for enterprise applications. I also like the monitoring and deployment experience with Azure tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AKS can feel complex for beginners, especially when troubleshooting networking or scaling issues. Cost management and cluster configuration also require some experience, otherwise it’s easy to overprovision resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azure Kubernetes Service is great to work with and I like that it integrates easily with other technology and tools in the Azure ecosystem. We have been using it to containerize our solution for over 2 years now for our client. It also has great interface which is easy to navigate and I like that a lot while working with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some limitation like every tool. Sometime like the provisioning of new cluster or scaling of node takes several minute which feels slow and could be improved upon. I feel the documentation could be upgraded as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the managed nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) because they simplify maintenance. Additionally, I appreciate the ability to scale with Azure Container Instances (ACI). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its deployment could be simpler, especially compared to other managed Kubernetes on other hyper-scalers. Also, network management could be simpler. Additionally, the initial cost is not trivial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is managed service and saves lot of time for me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keeps older version of kubernetes , compared to GKS. Besides azure often has downtime in uk regions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to find information about Azure is easy. We utilize the platform mostly for data science projects where we need automated ML process. The platform helped us to design a process for our model development lifecycle. There are around 10 team members that are actively using the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing model is hard to understand and calculate. So components and services are charged based on transactions which is hard to know till you are fully live Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Microsoft Azure Comprehensive cloud services. It has a lot of features and we use them on daily basis. The solution is very easy to use and implementation is also easy. The customer support is also quick and responsive. Strong security and compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like the limitations with other operating systems like it's more focused on Windows OS. Frequent changes and updates make it difficult for us to cope with the compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing about AKS are:

1. It is easy to create and manage as compared to EKS, GKE, or other orchestration tools.

2. The secret store csi driver is yet another best feature to integrate keyvault with aks to manage confidential secrets.

3. We can integrate ACR with AKS just by providing the ACRPull role to the AKS managed identity is also a great feature as we don't need to secret imagePullSecret for that.

4. We can seamlessly manage cluster autoscaling for high availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Well overall AKS is one of my favourite orchestration tool but there are some disadvantages as well:

1. There's lot of headache while upgrading the cluster to the new Kubernetes version.

2. We cannot use tools like karpenter to reduce the cost consumption of AKS.

3. There's no such support for spot nodes eviction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Managed Service. It takes care of masters, nodes, etcd storage and everything. No need to create the infra needed; AKS service automatically takes care of it.

- We use it to host our infrastructure - compute, memory and it helps us in autoscaling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- It does not support custom docker images. So while pulling the image, if it's integrated, the pull time takes less. However, due to the lack of this support, it takes longer for the pods to come up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best features of Azure Kubernetes Service are easy scalability, simple UI and the power to control your production grade server right from the azure UI console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing that I dislike about Azure Kubernetes service is the lag and slowness when operating the cluster via Azure CLI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In AKS, the master node is free, unlike in AWS. AKS also features native integration with Azure DevOps and built-in support for GitOps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AKS lacks the latest version of Kubernetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.