Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise) Pros and Cons

What do you like best about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Light weight, highly extensible open-source environment with a great repository of images. Repository would help in creating standard environments more effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Takes a lot more learning curve but can significantly help if there is a GUI for newbies. Role based security would help managing images more efficiently in the enterprise world. Local repositories would help better in an enterprise world then actually using the centralized repository. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Docker is great because it's low weight and fast to start an image. The community adoption is great and it's easy to find Docker images for common applications we use every day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

The UI (Kitematic) can be better. It's sometimes buggy and hard to work with. Using Docker in Windows is not as straightforward as Mac and Linux. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

The documentation is great, there is way less trouble to deploy things with docker. There is a lot of pre-built images and the image directory is quite well populated. Docker is a massive have a massive CPU advantage compared to VMs and it's really quick to put everything in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

At first, the software was not so stable and some features were missing but now all of that is solved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

The simplicity and ease of use of the Docker container runtime make it an attractive tool for users of all levels of experience. The Docker documentation is robust, well written, and easy to follow. It's also an open source project with a large and growing community, so support and maintenance of the product is quite active. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Nothing at the moment. I think there are small improvements to be made in terms of conciseness in commands for tasks like cleaning up dangling images and old containers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Up and running in seconds.

Just to give you an example, at work I wanted to have ELK deployed to gather the Juniper SRX logs and display on Kibana Dashboard, guess how much work I did for that.

docker pull junaid18183/elk

docker start <some options >

and its up and running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Networking in Docker is nightmare, but slowly and steadily its improving with good sub projects like compose Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

When I started to use Docker a discoverd a new way to develop combining quickly the technologies that I use generally. I have very appreciate it when I'm starting a new project so I can build a prototype using less time comparing the old way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Currently it's still too complicated manage the images and container so could be hard to learn all features. I'd like to see more official tutorials so understanding in deep how docker works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Application as code, almost application whatever native or legacy .all of them can dockerlization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Don't control all . do your best. I don't think docker is the best solution of VDI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Dockerfile format is easy to understand the incorporation of docker composer was also a great addition because I can do orchestration of docker containers without installing anything new Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

Support multiple Dockerfile .. or a Dockerfile with several instances, for doing testing on different environments (os, software version, etc) would be super useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

We've gotten rid of vagrant for local development environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

One of the most recent docker-compose releases had broken output and it took me a while to figure out what had happened. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

I like that it is infrastructure as code. It is repeatable and I can share it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)?

There can be a fair bit of setup involved before you get a useful network of services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.