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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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- Scalability (180)8.888%
- Platform access control (169)8.383%
- Upgrades and platform fixes (168)8.181%
- Platform management overhead (167)7.777%
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- 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 t...
- 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 a...
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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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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
Fantastic tool !!!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In our organization it is primary containerization and orchestration platform. It streamlines application containerization and orchestration and ensures consistent deployment. It integrates easily with DevOps for faster deployment and supports hybrid cloud setups. Its security features protects data and ensures compliance. Applications can be easiy scaled up and down based on demands.
- It automates deployment process which ensures seamless updates without any manual intervention.
- Its scaling capabilities allows application to scale both horizontally and vertically based on demand. Like, during peak traffic hours it automatically spin up extra container and spin down during off-peak hours. It efficiently manages fluctuating workloads.
- It automatically detects and recover from failure which minimizes downtime.
- UI and UX can be more simplified and that would become an added advantages along with the powerful features it offers.
- Great compatibility with many DevOps tools but faces issue integration with many third party tools.
- Network configuration is complex which can be improved by making easier network policies.
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.
May 10, 2024
OpenShift makes deploying apps easier.
We use it to deploy web applications and provide our developers with a matching production and development environment. We also host our virtual machines to run various services within Openshift Virtualization. Having all of that in one place makes it nice although shifting from RHV to Openshift is a bit of a paradigm change.
- Providing Dev and prod environment for web apps to run and be tested.
- Deploying application in a consistent way.
- One click vm building.
- Because of how different virtualization is done, there is a learning curve to overcome when switching to it from another hypervisor.
- Documentation needs to be improved. Just finding the details to set it up is a burden that will keep some people using it.
May 10, 2024
OpenShift the flexible k8s.
Our customers use OpenShift as a secure on-prem platform for microservices. They don't want to lock themselves to one cloud provider; rather, they want to be able to switch between them if necessary or combine the on-prem cluster in a hybrid solution to run their workload wherever it fits best.
- Easy to use web gui.
- Integration with operators.
- Ability to run anywhere.
- Image mirroring for offline environments.
- Gitops configuration for every Red Hat product on top of Openshift.
May 10, 2024
Great
It is a very good product for on-prem management. It is easy to pre-configure and use, and it has good security capabilities to enhance application security. Its reliability is great. It is the Best open-source product used so far in this space. There are other ones as well, but Red Hat Openshift beats all of them.
- Reliable
- Security Enhanced.
- Great Product.
- None
- None
- None
Manage cluster-level automation on a wide scale to manage resources efficiently.
- Flexible scaling.
- Better resources management.
- Cluster wide monitoring.
- Easy setup.
- Terminal
- Access roles.
- Cost
May 10, 2024
Opinion from Integrator
We are using it for our customers, as we are IT consulting company.
- Developer hub
- Virtualization
- 100% compatibility with HELM charts or at least create some easy converter
We are using Red Hat OpenShift, the managed openshift clusters in AWS. We are running multiple tier 1 applications in our ROSA clusters. Most of them are stateless workloads which needs to scale on demand and can be easily deployed as Highly Available applications. For our business Red Hat OpenShift is enabling our application teams to quickly deploy for faster time to market availability and most importantly business applications gets by default auto scaling and high availability.
- Faster deployment of business applications
- Provide high availability
- Provide autoscaling of applications and platform
- Faster upgrade and low maintenance
- Building new Red Hat OpenShift clusters should be faster and consistent
- Application migrations from one cluster to another should be less disruptive
- Red Hat OpenShift upgrade should have a path to rollback if it doesn’t work for our environment due to issues / bugs
May 10, 2024
Product review
We are a partner and we implement it for customers
- Scalability
- Dev technology agnostic
- Reliability
- Faster adoption to cloud
- Extended support
- Security
May 10, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
Red Hat OpenShift used in our organization improved the high availability and scalability of the application.
- Horizontal pod scaling based on memory and CPU usage
- One click upgrade
- 0 downtime deployment
- Auto scaling based application transaction volume
- Upgrade rollback option
- Windows containers identity provider connect
May 10, 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
May 10, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
We use it for our core logistic software, we also have the development environment test environment and quality assurance. We also use it to run Mission critical software like sap dot we use open shift for things like trying new applications and make proof of concepts for the business or logistic company. Also use for running machine learning and image recognition.
- Managing pods resources
- Elasticity for workloads
- Centralized administration
- User interface
- Learning
- Notification
- Logging search
May 10, 2024
My review
Singular platform integration. One of the hardest parts of working in a high end department is the lack of locations where you can initiate your workflow. With Red Hat OpenShift you are able to work in the same area and keep everything on one platform. With Red Hat OpenShift we’ve been able to speed up production and get work done faster.
- Singular platform
- Auromation
- Clean interface
- Documentation
- Pricepoint
- Integration with other Red Hat products
Supporting our Application.<br><br>improved productivity tremendously
- Individual MR
- Integrated Monitoring
- Simple UI
- Cluster updates
- ACS integration to org workflow
May 10, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
We are currently hosting on dev . Not production yet. Some we are hosting on VM . We are planning to migrate everything to Red Hat OpenShift
- Manage containers
- Orchestrates
- Deploys
- Security
- Cheaper
May 10, 2024
New Customer
We use Red Hat OpenShift for our aap and automation hub
- Containers
- Storage
- Documentation
- Make it easier to deploy in airgapped environments
- Need more docs on oc cli commands
- Less clutter on ui
May 10, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift as a service
We offer Red Hat OpenShift managed platform to our customers. We provide infrastructure as private cloud and Red Hat licensing.
- Cloud native
- Front end
- Backend
- Data foundation
May 10, 2024
My days with Red Hat OpenShift
We use Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for virtualization and mission critical applications
- Virtualization
- Observability
- Api management
- Ai
- Cloud admin
- App security
May 10, 2024
My longer review
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- Developer
- Integration
- Security
- Ansible to atomation process