Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise) Reviews & Product Details

I utilize Mirantis Kubernetes Engine primarily for container orchestration and microservices deployment. It acts as a foolproof solution by organizing our services, labeling workloads easily, and providing reliable container isolation. The robust cluster management capability, combined with excellent environmental replication tools, makes it easy to replicate precise staging and production environments, which is great for debugging and isolating bugs. Additionally, the built-in alert management system provides clear visibility over our active networks. I appreciate the customizable image repositories, which allow us to tailor our deployment workflows exactly how we want them. The initial configuration and installation are quite manageable, and setting up basic networking parameters is straightforward. The platform helped break our software into lighter isolated micro servers, which consume less space and enhance user experience with faster and more responsive applications. Overall, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine is an incredibly powerful platform for optimizing workload management and accelerating microservices development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest downside is the steep licensing cost required to access the platform's premium features, along with some noticeable stability quirks when dealing with Windows environments. While it technically supports multiple operating systems, containers run significantly better on Linux. We've faced configuration bottlenecks and occasional application crashes when trying to manage setups on Windows 10 and above. The deeper interface can also become overly complex to navigate, and tracking down certain uncorrected system errors is frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that Mirantis Kubernetes Engine solves the significant challenge of a long time to market and operational friction during production releases. The standout feature for me is the highly friendly and consistent command format used to execute cluster tasks effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The primary complaints I have as a systems administrator is the highly clunky and inefficient way the platform forces us to read containers. Right now, our engineers have to manually run more CLI commands just to pull log information and display it across the terminals. This process is incredibly restrictive and time-consuming, especially when trying to isolate bugs across hundreds of running containers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the clear, easy-to-use web UI to be the absolute standout aspect of using Mirantis Kubernetes Engine. I also appreciate its comprehensive technical reference documentation which provides highly readable, step-by-step guides that help me manage advanced features such as network isolation policies and custom role-based access control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't found anything at to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really appreciate the extremely reliable multi-cloud orchestration engine that comes with Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, especially when it’s combined with the integrated identity management system. The cluster bootstrap phase was remarkably straightforward and user-friendly right out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The primary downside we have run into is that the enterprise support portal for Mirantis can still feel quite clunky to navigate. It's definitely got some clear room for improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really appreciate the seamless integration of Mirantis Kubernetes Engine with external cloud monitoring services, which allows us to route container metrics directly into platforms like New Relic or AWS CloudWatch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only noticeable frustration we have faced is that the software can occasionally consume a significant amount of computing power and system overhead during heavy traffic spikes or mass container initializations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've used MKE (formerly UCP) for almost 7 years now. We use it in Swarm mode and have hundreds of nodes with thousands of containers running. I love that we can have any number of worker nodes and our own internal trusted registry. In general it's fairly easy to use. In its simplest form, you can quickly setup a swarm, deploy services and containers. In terms of bells and whistles, you can get very fine tune with security and setup teams. In terms of customer support, Mirantis has always been helpful when we had issue. One other cool feature is that we can run in a mixed mode. I love the simplicity of swarm with the ability of using secrets, configurations, health checks and simple stack files to deploy services. Compared to Kubernetes in AWS, swarm on MKE is much simpler to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In the early days, MKE used to have a lot of problems with the gossip protocol. I found myself asking for help only to have Mirantis pull out some magic rethink db commands. The releases over the last two years have really stabilized the product. The biggest challenge for me as an administrator is that some of the operations are very black box. I'd love to see more searchable documentation on the inner workings of MCR and MKE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've used this product back when it was Docker Enterprise for business purposes and haven't really had any complaints. In the start, I did use the non-K8s version more as we were fledgling when it came to containerization and container management, but have evolved. What makes it good is it's a pretty straightforward flavor of K8s and has just about everything I think most people would want or need. Operation is easy to use and there are no technical hurdles we've faced using it. While I barely use support, support has been helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far, I have no complaints. I only use the command line version, therefore I cannot comment on any GUI apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most useful part is the MKE UI. This simplifies the task of running and administering your k8s workload for people who don't like the cli or are new to kubernetes. The installation process is pretty simple and makes the day 2 operations easy for admins. This also comes with good customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation is something I did not like much. The enterprise support portal for mirantis (MKE and MSR) is not that user friendly and can be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Khanbank is the Mongolian Biggest bank. we transform to the DevOps & Cloud approach since 2019. MKE's installation, transformation, integration is very easy and understandable, and we using MSR and other features like a bundle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customer support. Our team is new to the cloud technology and techniques. The support engineers are can't solve the issue then we fixing 1 by 1 work arround solutuions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial configuration of containers is easy at first, the editing of the container in question is manageable, the ability to manage alerts within the platform to manage the networks you are working on is another very attractive feature of Mirantis. Software and applications can be managed within the platform, it is very space-saving. Another attractive offering is the ability to manage clusters for cloud services, the software is very robust and capable of balancing workloads, the repositories are fully customizable, the installation and configuration of the service is generally manageable. The environment can be applied to both Windows and Linux operating system, the creation of virtual machines and the handling of container images is really amazing. Options for replicating environments benefit for bug fixes, improving development and debugging issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some problems in the configuration for Windows 10 and higher environments. The interface despite being easy to configure at the beginning, can be complex to understand, to have access to the best features of the service you have to pay a little high costs. Containers work much better with Linux, I do not recommend its use with Windows. Some stability problems, as well as some applications crashes that we are managing within platform, many errors are not corrected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.