# IronWorker Reviews **Vendor:** Iron **Category:** [Container Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-management) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About IronWorker IronWorker helps customers painlessly scale their container based workloads. Users can fire off containers to be run directly from within their application code without needing to worry about the machines that run them. IronWorker scales resources up and down behind the scenes to handle variable loads. It's a little like AWS Fargate + ECS, or Google Cloud Run- serverless + containers. The difference is that IronWorker can be deployed to any public cloud or fully on-premise, in any language. This flexibility is unparalleled, meaning your devops is future-proofed. All products can be managed via an online UI or via a robust HTTP API. Iron's products run on public clouds as well as On-premise. Iron.io is a suite of tools allow a busy developer to do what they do best, BUILD, without having to manage any underlying infrastructure. Its tools are lightweight, secure, and allow developers the ability to get started quickly. ## IronWorker Reviews ### 1. Seamless Workflow Enhancement with Iron.io: A Game-Changer! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elliot L. | Business Operations Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2023 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** Iron.io has revolutionized our business operations, streamlining our workflow. Their platform's integration capabilities seamlessly melded with our existing systems, delivering an unprecedented level of efficiency and reliability. The standout feature of Iron.io undoubtedly lies in its unparalleled customer support. The team's responsiveness, depth of knowledge, and proactive approach to addressing our queries have been instrumental in ensuring a smooth user experience throughout our journey with them. **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** One area where Iron.io could enhance its offering is in providing more comprehensive documentation and tutorials. While the platform is powerful, navigating its full potential can be a bit challenging without extensive guidance. Improved documentation would significantly benefit users, especially those new to the platform, by streamlining the learning curve and maximizing its utility. **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** Iron seamlessly handles varying workloads without compromising performance, allowing us to adapt effortlessly to changing demands without any hiccups. ### 2. IronWorkers are easy to set up and manage and consistently reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evan A. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2023 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** IronWorkers use Docker containers to deploy the workers and because of this, it is very easy to ensure consistency with your local environment **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** There hasn't been a ton of innovation in the product over the past few years, but not sure there needs to be **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used IronWorker for over 5 years and what separated them from the rest is the ease in deploying workers across a range of programming languages. I personally used them with PHP, Python, and Ruby workers and all worked well. ### 3. The original cloud functions! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel M. | CTO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** IronWorker runs my PHP code straight out of the box. Scheduling jobs is simple. It just works. Love it. **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** The upload process is a bit cumbersome. Ideally I'd like to be able to edit my code online in browser window. **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling tasks in a cloud environment, especially severless, is made easy with IronWorker. Whereas before you needed to have a machine running a cron demon. ### 4. PHP cloud functions on IronWorker **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel M. | Development Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** I love that IronWorker supports PHP. natively. Also, the scheduler is a great feature. Makes it easy to run PHP functions in the cloud without having to provision servers or containers. **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** There is no way to edit code in the dashboard. To update the code, even for a minor change, requires upload of the entire solution. This is generally not a problem. **Recommendations to others considering IronWorker:** Just do it. It's really great. Easy to use. And natively supports PHP! **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** We mainly use IronWorker for scheduling jobs which would otherwise require us to have a dedicated machine running CRON. ### 5. Perfect work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manuel Alejandro O. | Local Leader Medellín , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2019 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** Iron Worker is an excellent solution for all requirements that my team need in your day work. Each one of them say that this tool help keep an order in your process of design **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** For now is impossible to say that this product is bad because each day my team discover anything new to prove. **Recommendations to others considering IronWorker:** None **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** OpenSource, cloud agnostic, migrate lambda functions directly into Functions. Come join the community that's involved in the #1 Cloud Native Serverless solution. ### 6. Great Worker and Message Queues **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erik J. | Lead Success Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** Ease of setup and use. The dashboard makes keeping track of various tasks and workers easy. Very little maintenance required once set up. **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** It would be great if there was a plan between Launch and Professional. That is a large gap, but one you have no choice to take if you need the extra horsepower. **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to use Iron.io to help us integrate robust queueing systems in conjunction with our API platform to increase the number of jobs we could process. Being able to set up a fail-over environment for these jobs has also been a plus. We can kind of "set it" and "forget it", and just let them run. ### 7. Helped us harness the efficiency of the cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2018 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** We used Iron.io as a one stop shop to help us get onto the cloud and tune our services to get cloud efficiencies. It was overwhelming looking at the many disparate services that need to have the dots connected to get underway with the cloud, so giving this problem to Iron made things much easier as we had a single touch point. Iron's Worker is a complex tool and is hard to understand how to engage it effectively in your architecture - it essentially changes your serial processing pipeline and multiplies them to enable parallel processing - effectively unblocking bottlenecks and seeing less cloud compute needed to get results in a certain time frame. The result has been a drastic reduction in the AWS spend we have been getting, as we are finally optimized to take advantage of the elasticity that cloud computing offers. **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** Iron.io's offerings are hard to understand from the outset, and they can probably make their language more accessible. Implementing their tools I feel would be a challenge without their help. **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** We searched for a way to simplify and reduce our AWS spend, plus optimize our computing processes. We didn't realize that we were just dumping more EC2 resources on problems that were effectively putting more muscle behind pushing a golf ball through a garden hose, when Iron's Worker allowed us to spit the golf ball into smaller balls and push them through multiple hoses... If that makes sense. But beyond this, we were also able to configure these smaller balls to look how they needed to look for the next stage of the process, and put them easily onto Iron's MQ. In effect, our benefits realized were reduced EC2 spend (40% drop) and a drastically simplified workflow (ETL to break down CSVs, reorganize the data and then load that data to multiple destinations at high speed). ### 8. Experience with Ironworker. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2019 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** Ironworker is easy to use as well as easy to setup.very little maintenance required once setup. The scheduler is a great feature.Also the PHP functions is easy to run the cloud without having provision servers or containers. **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** There is no way to edit code in dashboard .It would be great if there was a plan between launch and professional. **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** We mainly use ironworker for scheduling jobs which would otherwise require us to have a dedicated machine running CRON. ### 9. Iron.io allows ALICE to queue request from customer's such as instant messages or files to parse **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2019 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** The queues are a very clear way to see where the processes are **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** Logs are not easily accessible, so it's hard to find a problem when something is not working. **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** File parsing and SMS queue ### 10. Love the MessageQueue **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2018 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** The MessageQueue is awesome, it is so fast and efficient! Their on-premise solution is perfect for our needs. Where compliance and security is paramount, the on-premise install is key. If we ever need assistance their support team has always been there and got us on track very quickly. **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** The cost can be a little difficult as there is no plan between the Launch and Pro. I would love to see a middle tier plan as the gap there is a little too large. **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a new project requiring us to scale fast and Iron really helps us do that very efficiently. ### 11. Serial processing to parallel processing to 10x my throughput **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** - I improved my CSV breakdown work drastically by putting 10 Iron Workers on the job. Up to that point, I was just using larger AWS instances... But the concept of actually running 'concurrent' jobs at the same time (through using workers that spin up on elastic cloud computing) was lost on me. - The UI is very intuitive and gives really good detail about the time each job takes. - I can run my Workers and then have them put the finished product on a message queue - which means my whole ETL process is done without any hassle. **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** Iron's message queue did used to have downtime - but they have released a new MQ v 4 built on RUST that has been really great. **Recommendations to others considering IronWorker:** The utility is great once you have moved past the configuration stage. If you have a bottleneck in your workflows, Iron's worker could be a great fit. **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** ETL, push notifications and general large docker task breakdown. ### 12. Reliable web queue **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2017 **What do you like best about IronWorker?** My experience with the message queues was a good one. I had no issues and found the message queues to be very reliable. The website has good monitoring showing exactly what is happening in real time. **What do you dislike about IronWorker?** The initial set up and configuration is a bit more involved that I would like. The documentation could have been a little easier to follow. **What problems is IronWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web queues for PHP applications. Queuing things like email messages and low priority events. ## IronWorker Discussions - [What is IronWorker used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ironworker-used-for) - [View IronWorker pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ironworker/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+11%3A17%3A49+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=600c5e72-9bf9-4c66-9d86-68fb11e95618&secure%5Btoken%5D=7b2131549c2c63050934a5dd26d47b57ca402afee91b86dcd200cc16d6f0d69d&format=llm_user) ## IronWorker Features **Management** - Access Control - Network Isolation - File Isolation **Organization** - Packaging - Container Networking - Orchestration **Development** - Developer Toolkit - Architecture - Datacenter - Virtualization ## Top IronWorker Alternatives - [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (735 reviews) - [Akamai Cloud Computing](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-cloud-computing/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (387 reviews) - [Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (248 reviews)