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OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
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What is Red Hat OpenShift?
Red Hat® OpenShift® is a unified platform to build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale. It includes an enterprise-ready Kubernetes solution with a choice of deployment and consumption options to meet the needs of the business. OpenShift delivers a consistent experience across public cloud, on-premise, hybrid cloud, or edge architecture. It includes multiple advanced open source capabilities that are tested and integrated with the underlying certified Kubernetes environment, such as Red Hat OpenShift Serverless, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps. Red Hat OpenShift gives users the choice of running cloud services or self-managed editions:
Cloud Services Editions
Red Hat OpenShift cloud services automate the deployment and management of Red Hat OpenShift clusters, so organizations can build, deploy and scale applications quickly without having to incorporate and learn new technologies and processes, or manage integrations. It also helps users to:
Self-Managed Editions
Red Hat OpenShift self-managed editions provide more control and flexibility over OpenShift deployments. Self-managed editions allow deployment on any private or public cloud, on bare metal, or at the edge. In addition, long-term support provides flexible life cycles providing the option to choose when to upgrade to the next version of Red Hat OpenShift.
Cloud Services Editions
- Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS: A turnkey application platform that provides a managed Red Hat OpenShift service running natively on Amazon Web Services (AWS) used by organizations to increase operational efficiency, refocus on innovation, and build, deploy, and scale applications.
- Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift: Red Hat and Microsoft jointly engineer, manage, and support the platform, used by organizations to increase operational efficiency, refocus on innovation, and quickly build, deploy, and scale applications.
- Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated: A managed Red Hat OpenShift offering on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud.
- Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud: A managed Red Hat OpenShift cloud service that reduces operational complexity and helps organizations build and scale applications with the security of IBM Cloud.
Red Hat OpenShift cloud services automate the deployment and management of Red Hat OpenShift clusters, so organizations can build, deploy and scale applications quickly without having to incorporate and learn new technologies and processes, or manage integrations. It also helps users to:
- Reduce security & compliance risk through 24x7 global SRE coverage.
- Limit operational and staffing dependencies attached to particular providers.
- Reduce integration bottlenecks with repeatability and consistency for multi-cloud deployments.
Self-Managed Editions
- Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus: The recommended self-managed option that builds on the capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with a complete platform for accelerating application development and application modernization. The full portfolio includes all the features of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform along with several integration technology solutions including Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, and Red Hat Quay.
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform: A full set of operations and developer services and tools that includes everything in the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine plus additional features and services.
- Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine: An enterprise Kubernetes runtime that includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS immutable container operation system, administrator console and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
Red Hat OpenShift self-managed editions provide more control and flexibility over OpenShift deployments. Self-managed editions allow deployment on any private or public cloud, on bare metal, or at the edge. In addition, long-term support provides flexible life cycles providing the option to choose when to upgrade to the next version of Red Hat OpenShift.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
Red Hat OpenShift starts at $0.076.
Tanzu Application Platform, SUSE Rancher, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) are common alternatives for Red Hat OpenShift.
Reviewers rate Scalability highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of Red Hat OpenShift are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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June 11, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
I mainly use openscap to scan for vulnerabilities in the system and ensure compliance.
- Technical product descriptions
- Scalability
- SELinux is a good program
- More flexibility on cloud based products
- Flexibility for security based systems
- Takes a while to speak to a live agent expert
Red Hat OpenShift is our new application platform and is the core of our digital transformation. We use it to host our integration platform. As [the] first step, we use its container orchestration capabilities. It enables us to build applications using a choice of programming languages, frameworks, and application lifecycle tools. It allowed us to switch our existing project environments from traditional virtualization to the containerized world without excessive costs.
- Very efficient support and very active community on the internet
- Very efficient and user-friendly UX and CLI
- Scalable, extensible
- Multi-platforms, multi-technologies
- Platform management made easy
- Very smooth learning curve
- OS log management could be improved (log reading can be tough)
- It's sometimes hard to follow the new features flow
- Didn't find ways to integrate AI features easily
June 10, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Experience
It helped in deploying Red Hat OpenShift applications
- Ease of deployment
- secure images
- great oberavalibilty
- ACS is hard to use
- Argo CD should have a better interface
June 07, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift
In our organization, Red Hat OpenShift has been a game-changer for deploying, managing, and scaling our containerized applications. We primarily use Red Hat OpenShift to streamline our DevOps processes and enhance our application development lifecycle.
- Container orchestratiom
- Cluster updates
- Integrate full stack of software needed to run kubernetes
- Disconnected updates
June 07, 2024
THE Container Platform for Large Scale Enterprises
We use it as a container platform to deploy edge applications in a manufacturing, air-gapped environment. OpenShift addresses business requirements where devices, datalake and operations on the edge need a consolidated platform. Creating expensive virtual machine clusters are archaic and this is where OpenShift helps by empowering our developers to deploy applications straight to the edge.
Another crucial requirement was having a platform that was compatible with our chosen Identity management platform - CyberArk. With Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, we can ensure that user authentication and management to pods and applications can be safely handled in conjunction with CyberArk.
Another crucial requirement was having a platform that was compatible with our chosen Identity management platform - CyberArk. With Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, we can ensure that user authentication and management to pods and applications can be safely handled in conjunction with CyberArk.
- Container Platform for developers to test, update, deploy and bring an application from development to production
- Provides a single platform natively in cloud and in on-prem. It's a perfect fit for Hybrid organizations like ours. ARO is a great asset and so is deploying Red Hat OpenShift on-prem in virtual instances
- Highly dependent platform built on Red Hat Linux OS which helps on saving costs
- Collaboration with on-prem specialiszed vendors like VMware, MS Hyper-V perhaps?
- Be more open to using other container registry platforms in demos like Container Registry in Azure
- Documentation is hidden behind a Training Subscription.
June 07, 2024
OCP is the best
We use OpenShift in a completely air gapped/disconnected environment. We hope to provide resiliency and HA to satellite communications and processing.
These systems will handle Link 3 satellite data process and archive indefinately.
These systems will handle Link 3 satellite data process and archive indefinately.
- Keep applications available
- Providing security operators
- Flexibility on what applications can be run
- I cant think of anything. My experience has been great!
- An ansible module to help in the automated post creation configuration. Currently k8s is limited
We use it in our company to make our applications work better, and it can ensure the smooth running of the applications. Additionally, it also helps in better organisation by enhancing efficiency and increasing the security aspect, and I can say it is more like a background hero who works in silence to make everything work better. We have also started using this for our IT administration.
- Enhancing the security of the system.
- Helps in the organization to a large extent.
- Helps in running applications with ease and smoothly.
- Helps in scaling the program
- It could do better in the user interface, as it seems a bit complex to some of my colleagues.
- Integration with other tools needs more work.
- I do feel that automated enhancement features cause unnecessary changes.
June 06, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
We use it as a test bed to better understand the platform to assist our customers with tech challenges. We deploy on top of VMware stack, and also a bare metal stack to have variety in our deployment methods. We then use helm charts and other operators to mimic what our customers might do. We also use this to create demos and show the possibilities.
- Great UI
- Easy to understand breadcrums
- Nice separation of projects/namespaces
- Exposing services with load balancers
- Native S3 support
Red Hat OpenShift is a complete PaaS solution for developers as well as for deployment & configuration engineers who manage & create the underlying infrastructure for cloud-native applications. My use case is to host containerized RAN applications of mobile operators over EDGE servers in a relatively less resource-intensive infrastructure. Lifecycle management of the application, i.e., the CNFs in the case of Telcos, is relatively easy with Red Hat OpenShift.
- LCM of CNFs
- Security of the underlying environment
- Modular Support of desired operators for Telco applications
- Supporting all Storage & Networking solutions in the form of CSIs & CNIs
- Initial deployment of the cluster
- RBAC & User management
- Lack of In-built observability solutions
- Lack of In-built performance monitoring
June 05, 2024
My first Red Hat OpenShift review
We put Red Hat OpenShift in a box and make on Prem hci appliance. Primary use case of this appliance is to help customer hide the complexity of openshift deployment in terms of networking, bare metal provisioning etc. Also we provide single source of support for all hardware and software pieces , so customer does not need to go to different vendors.
- Monitoring
- Container management
- Storage attach
- Multi cluster management
- Vm migration
- Performance monitoring
June 04, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift platform is my customers future
Application deployment in a controlled manage env providing all a wholesome wrapper around my otherwise kubernetes containers.
- Application deployment
- Autoscaling
- Support services
- Container registry integration
- Difficult to get started
- Requires RH SME to get started
- Better AI integration needed
June 04, 2024
Stable and scalable PaaS platform
We use OpenShift Fabric platform to manage hosting and deployment of our business applications. The platform handles management of environment configuration, pipelines and promotion paths of all our business applications contributing to the backbone of our trillion dollar revenue system. It is critical to our functioning and operations on technology
- Management of environment configuration, provisioning of pods and secrets is done in a foolproof, standard way so that multiple teams can identify and update it with minimal upkeep
- It has a large uptime ratio, meaning business applications downtime is usually not hampered
- It has an efficient way of scaling up and down pods to manage traffic and bandwidth
- Batch processing and streaming is not yet supported on the platform, and is supported by competitors like GCP
- Database hosting is handled separately, and thus cannot be maintained from the same pod
- It's not possible to create cross instance promotion paths
June 03, 2024
Good and secure Kubernetes platform.
We use it to streamline our deployment workflows and save time/effort. We have a limited time window to do our deployments due to the nature of our 24/7 business. Hence it's important to do it quickly and accurately the first time. OpenShift helps us with faster time to market. Standard containers help us scale based on our trading volume.
- Auto scaling.
- Container orchestration.
- Multi cluster management.
- Ease of deployment.
- Support
- Developer experience (installation, logs, debugging).
- Cost
June 03, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift
build new work loads.moving toward containerize the applications.faster deployments & environments setup for different teams
- new setup
- ease of install
- better view with gui
- make it more interactive
- have wizard for creating environments
- make the gui more helpfull
June 03, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift is Powerful
We use it to help containerize and develop code using dev spaces. The use case is to help modernize our services.
- Easy User Interface
- Good Security
- Versatile
- Understanding VMs in it more
- Pooled storage for VMs
- More Rhel feature
June 03, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift is excellent!
We are beginning our supported Kubernetes journey with Red Hat OpenShift. So far, we have been able to speed up the development pipeline as well as transition our traditional services and websites to a highly scalable platform. Although the learning curve has been a fairly steep one, we are quickly becoming more and more comfortable with the solution.
- Self-healing
- Excellent support
- Always adding new features
- Many features only available via terminal
- Support personnel hours can be wildly inconsistent
- User/group management is tedious
May 25, 2024
My Experience with Red Hat OpenShift
We use Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) to run our AAP and EDA applications. We ARO, we're able to scale up and down easily as needed, and with AAP managing over 3000 servers across multiple teams, that's a huge advantage. We are also looking into moving other Kubernetes workloads into ARO.
- Ease of management
- Logging
- Auditing
- Faster deployment
- Slightly less confusing tables
- More graphs
May 21, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
Webapp development and virtualization, there are other operators we are exploring but they are not in production. One of the issues Red Hat OpenShift allows us to overcome is the flow from development to testing to production in web development. Often developers create on their local machine but when pushing to test or production the app fails to work due to configuration issues between the local machine and the production environment. Red Hat OpenShift eliminates that by providing a uniform environment for all three phases. It also provides enhanced security and stability.
- Process management
- Security
- Visibility
- Documentation needs to be improved
- Troubleshooting can be complex and often difficult.
- Upgrades are not always smooth.
- Permissions are difficult and easy to understand.
May 14, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
Right now the largest use that we're seeing for it with a lot of our customers is around Red Hat OpenShift virtualization. Due to some of the turmoil in the market and some of the moves and some of the products that are being discontinued, there's a huge demand for customers to take their virtual machine workloads and move them to another location. Right now, the best choice for that is Red Hat OpenShift virtualization.
- Red Hat has gone a very long way towards making the migration from other hypervisors, such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or VMware into Red Hat OpenShift virtualization. So the migration, albeit offline, works very well.
- I don't know that it would actually be possible, but minimizing the downtime and being able to facilitate a migration without service outages.
May 14, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
The business case is supporting the container platforms and orchestrating the container platforms. This business is more about supporting the developers. It could be anything from qualifying a component code process, CICD platforms, or a temporary platform to test the components. Hosting critical tool sets, North Star tool sets that support the world of business. It could be anything that is cloud native. There is a lot of benefits that we are getting from Red Hat OpenShift. One is ease of management. The way it helps with GitHub's principles, the way how they have componentized everything and the user has the privilege to go to the operator and select what they need and deploy it as per their requirement. Even they can customize it as per the business requirements. To speak about the benefits, I can speak the entire day about it for the time. I would say only this much. These are the use cases that I have just covered well for the entire business where all container platforms are coming nowadays, if you look at container containerization hitting the market, that is where everyone is moving forward. Everyone wants to land in that space.
- One thing is the way how it works with the GitHubs model on an enterprise business, how the hub and spoke topology works. Hub cluster topology works the way how there is a governance model to enforce policies. The R back models, the Red Hat OpenShift virtualization that supports the cube board and developer workspace is one big feature within. So yes, these are all some features I would call out.
- I wouldn't necessarily say there is look everyday technology transform. I can see a trend wherein Red Hat OpenShift is adopting all the new technology trends and helping their customers align with their priorities and the emerging technology trends. I wouldn't call out various scope for development every day. There is scope for development. It is all how the organizations adopt it and how they deliver it to their customers. I don't want to call out there is scope for development. It's happening. It is a never ending process.
- At the moment, I don't have anything to call out. We are experiencing Red Hat OpenShift and we can see every day they're coming up with new features as and when they come up with new features, we want to experience it more and more. We are looking for opportunities wherein this can be leveraged to help our users and partners.
May 14, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
Red Hat OpenShift is used within our organization for helping to modernize and speed up application delivery. The business problem that we're trying to address is trying to figure out ways for us to move our applications faster to production, and get features out there quicker so that we can turn around more stuff for our customers. The scope of our use case right now is primarily business-facing application stuff that we use for helping our subscribers and our providers, but it also includes our internal-facing applications as well. So any internal tools that we use for doing our own work and a lot of that same type of stuff all gets migrated to Red Hat OpenShift.
- One of the big advantages of Red Hat OpenShift is, especially over Kubernetes itself, is that it provides a lot of built-in operators for doing a lot of different things right out of the box that you don't have to worry about trying to configure. So one of the big ones is, I mean, right in your face is that user interface and being able to work with it inside of a browser. And I think that works very, very well.
- So I don't know that this is a specific disadvantage for Red Hat OpenShift. It's a challenge for anything that Kubernetes face is. There's an extremely large learning curve associated with it and once you get to the point where you're comfortable with it, it's really not bad. But beating that learning curve is a challenge. I've done a couple presentations on our implementation of Red Hat OpenShift at various conferences and one of the slides I always have in there is a tweet from years ago that said, "I tried to teach somebody Kubernetes once. Now neither of us knows what it is."
May 13, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
Deploy container applications in our Openshift environments which hosts microservices as well as kafka
- Container workloads
- Automation
- Scale
- I think the interface should be better
- Better troubleshooting
May 13, 2024
A platform you can depend on.
Interested in migrations from vsphere to rhv. I am also interested in standardizing on-prem K8s to OpenShift from a variety of other distros, including Tanzu and Rancher. Openshift has stood the test of time while other platforms have come and gone or have failed to live up to their promise. The support of the opensource community helps a lot.
- Solid on-prem k8s stack.
- Simplifies managing kubernetes.
- Adds new relevant features.
- Still complex to deploy and manage on bare metal.
May 13, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
We use Red Hat OpenShift to set up clusters on client side. Some projects we are doing on client side is in finance sector. For example, we build billing platforms and we deploy Red Hat OpenShift in different stages. And what we do is we do the installation and consulting services, connecting all the other environment tools to Red Hat OpenShift to get the software up and running. We do also consulting service in building deployment pipelines to get the software on Red Hat OpenShift.
- The first interviews we have with our clients are most time they're coming from vanilla Kubernetes. And the best benefit which Red Hat OpenShift provides in very early stages, we have a supported Kubernetes platform and we have a full Red Hat support behind that. And on top of that, we can use all the other Red Hat OpenShift tools, which are already built in because it's not easy to install, monitoring, logging, for example. So I would say batteries included and that's the best fit for us and for the customers.
- I would say that's the logging part because Red Hat OpenShift write tons of locks and if most time in the finance industry, we cannot use the built in logging infrastructure for compliance reasons. And we have to forward the logs out of the system and this is, it's too much, which we forward from one cluster. Most time we'll build up multi clusters, so we speak about 10 or more clusters. And if you send log files from 10 or more clusters, the logging systems are not prepared to take that much load. And then really often you have license problems with the logging system, so that's not really, really fun. So logging could be improved.
May 10, 2024
feedback from USA based university BYU.
I resell Redhat as a distributor. One of the end-users at BYU, a university, finds the how-to manuals or instructions too convoluted. They requested a simplified manual focusing only on the installation and integration steps. They wanted a separate manual for the features. In short, it is straightforward to install, followed by another set of instructions for adding features.
- Console
- Ease admin
- Can be used with multiple platforms.
- OpenShift 3 cannot migrate to OpenShift 4.
- De install older versions.