G2 Vendor Directory

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service vs. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricIBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

by IBM

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)

by Mirantis

Overall rating4.34.4
Review count18286
Ease of use8.38.1
Ease of setup8.68.5
Quality of support8.98.4
Meets requirements9.19.1
NPS46.66666763.898917
Small Business11.1%32.9%
Mid-Market44.4%33.6%
Enterprise44.4%33.6%
Total page views79573
Total LLM citations653,623

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Advanced capabilities for building cloud-native apps, adding DevOps to existing apps, and relieving the pain around security, scale and infrastructure management.

Pros

  • Security
  • Kubernetes Management
  • Scaling

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) is the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, designed to provide organizations with total control over their strategic infrastructure. Powering some of the world’s largest production clusters, MKE 4 introduces a 100% open-source, "composable" architecture based on k0s. This shift allows platform engineers to precisely tailor their stack by swapping in validated CNCF ecosystem components for networking, ingress, and storage, avoiding the "black box" limitations of proprietary distributions.

Pros

  • Kubernetes Management
  • Features
  • Ease of Use
  • Cloud Integration
  • User Interface
  • Stability