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Review on Nirmata by Stephen Pendergrass

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Easy tool for managing Kubernetes clusters

I like that it works with existing tools in my infrastructure, such as Ansible to provision machines using templates. Also, when you need more flexibility than what's offered by Ansible - just write your own custom script/workflow! The UI itself could be better though; there are some very strange aspects regarding how menus work (and where they go). It makes sense why people use this software if they have existing infra with ansibles but not really looking at all of the options right now. Provisioning new servers automatically has been useful so far. We've also run into issues getting our containers to talk together, which was surprising since we're running Docker 1.12 and k8s 1.13 - however, maybe something from recent releases solved that issue too?

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Pros
  • Everything is pre loaded for easy setup even without any docker experience or similar background knowledge required., great integration within an enterprise environment built around devops.
Cons
  • Documentation still needs improvement,
  • Not everything can easily plug straight away