A Buyer’s Guide to Distributed Kubernetes Solutions

Distributed Kubernetes Solutions: Compare Google Anthos, Amazon EKS Anywhere, VMware Tanzu, Azure Arc and Platform9

In just a few years, Kubernetes has rapidly emerged as the de-facto open-source standard for container orchestration. Numerous distributed Kubernetes solutions have emerged recently making it difficult to compare their offerings.

Here’s a high-level view of how five leading solutions in the market – Google Anthos, Amazon EKS Anywhere, VMware Tanzu, Azure Arc, and Platform9 Managed Kubernetes compare when considered along two critical dimensions that impact enterprises the most: maturity and lock-in.

This guide describes the factors that lead to operational complexity and lock-in and articulates 20 detailed capabilities to consider while evaluating an distributed Kubernetes platform and to what extent each of the above leading solutions deliver these capabilities including:

• Provisioning of Kubernetes Clusters
• High Availability and Healing
• Deployment Models Supported
• Prerequisites and Operating System Requirements
• Monitoring and Operations Management
• Multi-cluster Management
• And more!