# Canal Reviews **Vendor:** Canal **Category:** [Container Networking Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-networking) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 6 ## About Canal Canal is a community-driven initiative that aims to allow users to easily deploy Calico and flannel networking together as a unified networking solution - combining Calico’s industry-leading network policy enforcement with the rich superset of Calico and flannel overlay and non-overlay network connectivity options. Canal represents the best-of-breed policy-based networking solution for cloud native applications, supporting any orchestrator that support the CNI network plugin API (including Kubernetes, Mesos, and others). ## Canal Reviews ### 1. Best platform for container networking- Canal **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin D. | Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Canal?** Canal is very ease to use, Canal is very basic for new user to implement. it provides many tools for cloud networking, any new user also can operate canal this is the best thing which i love about it. **What do you dislike about Canal?** Nothing much, but sometimes facing some server issues, taking very long time, hope this issue will be fixed by canal's team as soon as possible **What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Best thing about canal is their supportive team, if we get any challenges while implementing, Canal team is always ready to help, they do very needful things for their costumers to integrating their projects. its very ease to use for new user as well. It provides many solutions in it. ### 2. Smooth Container Networking with Canal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Narendra A. | Information Technology Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Canal?** Canal best of canal is its quite friendly interface and number of tools available to use within it. Need only a small interaction to understand it. **What do you dislike about Canal?** somwhere when we come to advance level of configuration It is kind of difficult to understand. **What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic setup for a startup is quite easy in canal but when it comes to advance level so user need to be so accurate with this tool. As of now it's working very well without any interruption. ### 3. Good Networking Solution! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chetan G. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Canal?** The best part about canal is its User interface is very friendly, you will not need deep prior knowledge to use & implement it. **What do you dislike about Canal?** there are no great drawbacks of canal, but sometimes it takes more time to route the network from clusters. **What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Canal provides the nice connectivity between the databases & resourse clusters. it helps to adapt the connectivity from various network environments. ### 4. Canal for Networking Solutions **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Canal?** User friendly and additional features for cloud networking. **What do you dislike about Canal?** As of now, nothing dislikes about Canal. **What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Canal solves the problem of analysing Networking errors arised during my project execution and helps me in tracking the informations frequently. It help the customer by its additional features on integrating projects. ### 5. Canal Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Individual & Family Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Canal?** My favorite thing about Canal is how user friendly it is, and how easy is it to pick up and understand. **What do you dislike about Canal?** The only feature that I wish was different about Canal is how long it took for me to download and start using it, it was somewhat time consuming so I wish it was quicker. **What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Canal made it very easy to analyze and track information, as well as delegate sections of projects to others. A benefit is making work more efficient. ### 6. Helpful **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Canal?** This program is helpful in many ways. It is easy to utilize. **What do you dislike about Canal?** This program has its moments but ultimately works great. **What problems is Canal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can utilize many aspects to get my job done. ## Canal Discussions - [What is Canal used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-canal-used-for) - [View Canal pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/canal/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+23%3A32%3A23+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=453598c6-a327-4be4-9805-e5b4520c8353&secure%5Btoken%5D=8ce550d59a69c6d9b2c68e64e315cc41eff93f415031a7c1adc5a6d4dc99317e&format=llm_user) ## Top Canal Alternatives - [HAProxy](https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (883 reviews) - [Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)](https://www.g2.com/products/google-kubernetes-engine-gke/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (215 reviews) - [F5 NGINX](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-nginx/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (106 reviews)