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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:
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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:
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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 |
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| 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.
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May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift 101
Complex application and probability. We have big data workflows that are deployed on Red Hat OpenShift.
- Keeping max uptime
- Deploy anywhere
- AI integration
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift with the breeze
For app automation and that improve our legacy infrastructure.
- Deploy apps
- Manage containers
- Provide HA
- Kubernates on easy way
- Storage management
- Network tools for debug
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift FTW
Rapid deployment and ease of maintenance.
- Updates
- Storage
- Network segregation
- Development environment
- Virtualization
- Network integration
- Edge
May 08, 2024
Best side of Red Hat OpenShift
We use it for VM to move in as Container. We have about 10000 vm, which we are doing a POC to experience to move all in Red Hat OpenShift. I see a KVM does along with k8s.
- Best UI
- Truly opensource
- Disconnected environment mirror image some lab can be included in Partner training program
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Rocks!
We currently use Red Hat OpenShift to deploy all our Applications via GitOps using ArgoCD and Tekton Pipelines. It also runs our automation platform using the AWX Operator. Using CRDs and Operators has streamlined our deployment process from days to minutes. Being able to use the build in monitoring solution provided from Red Hat OpenShift implementing obserability alerting is simple as deploying a pod.
- User Friendly UI
- Routes
- Developer Experience
- Security
- CRDs could be grouped a bit easier
- Being able to set alert rules to cater for user workloads simply
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift is for Engineers
Create containers and allows us to move away from application servers.
- Interface
- Naming conventions
- Application support
- None that I am aware of at this time
Scalability of developer environments, quick container deployment
- Working with developers is streamlined, there is little time to wait for deployments
- Documentation - updates are quick but documentation is slow to update
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift in the enterprise
It does help on saving time and avoid the complexity of kubernetes in the enterprise providing a framework that is easier to understand that other alternatives and save you time with the opinionated things that come pre-setup.
It does help by lowering the bar so other people can be involved in the platform as well.
It does help by lowering the bar so other people can be involved in the platform as well.
- Machine API (at least for VMware)
- Upgrades are usually smooth and painless
- Be able to manage the complexity thru a GUI
- Better documentation
- Making some big changes smoother (change from SDN to OVN)
- Changing UI settings (such as logo)
- Some features are broken (ldapsync)
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift in the insurance industry
We currently utilize Red Hat OpenShift for our on prem/cloud container solution. We are largely shifting a lot of our older software applications to the cloud in our "Cloud First" movement which also entails all new product development to consider pushing app development to containers.
- Quick application deployment
- Quick API gateway calls and distribution
- Quick application recovery
- Speed to production
- Better SSO operator integration
- IPI isn't in a state for ease of use
- Upgrade branch paths sometimes are quirky and often times no consistent from cluster to cluster
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift
We use on-prem and off-prem self-managed openshift clusters to host a variety of applications, ranging from APIs to workload processing, to internal site hosting. We started our containers journey to reduce the need for physical and virtual servers that oftentimes sit idle or underutilized. The platform also empowers our developers to fail fast and implement robust CI/CD patterns to quickly redeploy applications.
- Machine Autoscaling helps prevent machine overload during peak times
- Machine healthchecks are effective at replacing machines that are struggling
- Robust configurations allowing workload segregation such as anti-affinity rules and taints
- Red Hat OpenShift console is intuitive and easy to use
- Upgrades can be stressful to watch - often cluster operators report that they are failing even though the upgrade is proceeding without issue.
- Native observability is lacking. The canned dashboards are great, but to really dive into an issue, you need to be proficient in PromQL or have a third-party product installed for correlation.
- It would be nice to be able to review logs for containers that have been removed, at least for a few hours after they're gone. Instead we have to rely on log aggregators to view historic details.
May 07, 2024
Good Solution
In this moment, we using RH OpenShift to Virtualization enviroments for customers. Our enviroment is shared and OpenShift is help us to reduce costs, increase produtivity and have other solutions for Vmware enviroment. But, I beliave that OpenShift need increase in fewe questions as, Hard Mult-tenacy, Network segregation, white labe for Portal.
- Licence low costs
- flexibility
- Trainning
- Native DR Solutions
- Hard Mult tenancy
- Network segregation
March 17, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift: One of the Best Cloud Platforms!
In our organization, we have thousands of microservices that were deployed on Kubernetes. The management of thousands of services was becoming very difficult so we decided to switch to Red Hat OpenShift.We use Red Hat OpenShift for the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure. With Red Hat OpenShift, we have an enterprise-grade platform, simplified management, and comprehensive support. In addition, we are able to run Kubernetes workloads in Red Hat OpenShift.
- Red Hat OpenShift is well-suited for complex requirements.
- Management of Red Hat OpenShift is easy when compared to Kubernetes.
- Kubernetes workloads can be easily migrated over to Red Hat OpenShift.
- Red Hat OpenShift has integrated developer tools and enhanced security.
- The dashboard can be a bit more user-friendly.
- Completed jobs continue to show up in the dashboard.
- There should be an option to filter out the completed BuildConfigs.
March 05, 2024
Big banking OCP installation.
We have a big k8 installation with more than 1500 virtual CPUs and more than 500 pods running in 3 different Regions with OCP. We also have an Ansible tower automation instalation to provisioning our Red Hat Linux Servers in IBM Cloud.
- Compliance management.
- Automation environment.
- Registry
- Automation platform.
- Versioning control.
- Product support.
February 26, 2024
Openshift Review
So we have implemented a new payment platform based on microservices, running in containers and the client decided to go with the OpenShift solution. So I didn't do the installation myself, but I'm part of the team that does the code deployment for this application. Also maintaining it and troubleshooting in case of any issue, either in the testing environment or production environment.
- Ease of management on a day-to-day basis, both using the web console and the CLI tool.
- Network of observability, so having one single screen to see to have some network-related metrics for the pod levels. Also at the cluster itself level and more importantly is ease of use for troubleshooting when there's any timeout. This has been the single kind of issue I've been facing for my three years of experience with OpenShift and it hasn't been an easy task for such troubleshooting.
February 26, 2024
Open shift container platform (self managed) Review
So my team with the automation team assists what we call the portal team in maintaining their OpenShift environment, their deployments, and their backups, as well as maintaining our Ansible a p platform on OpenShift, running an operator. So my team and I are doing most of the heavy lifting on the OpenShift side for what we call the Bell Self-serve portal.
- Obviously, it does container orchestration very well because it's the main purpose of the product. Creating routes has been very easy with the product, creating accessible routes, managing quotas, managing our workspace and our workload has been very efficient with this as well as managing our horizontal scalability.
- Sometimes the error messages are very vague when they happen and we have to dig in a lot longer than we should have just to find the exact error message in some lug. Whereas it could have been clear in the events, I assume. Aside from that, that's pretty much what I can think of off the top of my head.
February 26, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
OpenShift Container platform gives us a container orchestration platform for modernizing our legacy applications to run in containers. The Kubernetes platform is what gives us the container-based flexibility, scalability, and adaptability that we need to move our legacy apps to a more modern and sustainable state.
- Scales very well.
- It provides you with a landing pad to modernize what you have in a phased approach so you don't have to do it all at once, right? You can take small pieces of work and implement those on OpenShift over time. It enables us to be able to implement things like GI ops configuration as a service, and infrastructure as a service using the tools that are native to OpenShift, which gives us far greater reliability and consistency as far as monitoring for any kind of drift and configuration or unauthorized changes. So it pretty much gives us a lot of visibility on things that are otherwise relatively difficult to see using the old means of doing what we do. So it provides us with a modern set of tools to accomplish all those objectives.
- I think the easiest answer to that question is OpenShift as a platform. I don't know that I would necessarily say that I have any real complaints. However, as far as the architecture that it sits on to run, it's still very much so focused on X86-based computing architecture. And in our case, we're using both X 86 computing architecture and S3 90 computing architecture on the mainframe. And OpenShift as a whole in general is slightly slower and behind pace as far as making things compatible or workable on S3 90 as opposed to X 86. So that's kind of true of the entire Kubernetes marketplace in general. So it's not just an OpenShift problem, but it's still a pain point for us because it puts us in a position where we're having to wait on things on the one hand that we might not have to wait on for the other computer architectures. So to have them moving in parallel would be nice.
February 26, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
We do have applications onboarded in the Red Hat OpenShift test. We have tier-one and tier-two applications. Especially with auto-scaling Ments, spinning up the containers, the developers can easily deploy their applications onto the clusters and it can have when the need increases by spinning up more instances of your applications. So it maintains a better response time and meets the SOE.
- Mainly with right-sizing the applications, making the applications brought into this microservice architecture. So these are the ones that we noticed with the applications like we have migrated the applications from monolith to microservices and they're doing extremely well.
- I would say if OpenShift can provide us more insight into capacity management and maybe add a little bit of chargeback thing, so that will be more into the insight and observability. That's what we will need from a management perspective.
February 26, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
We have especially open enrollment, right where three, or four months we have a high traffic, especially on the enrollment side. So that's where we started the OpenShift but now it gets used across all the domains like claims, Medicare processing, and all the data for the application. So across all the applications we use. So I can say all business-critical applications run on the OpenShift. So one problem that, especially on the open enrollment we had scaling because those three, four months, the volume surge like 50 times, 200 times, right? The earlier challenge was to add the hardware and there are always delays that take a couple of months. But with OpenShift we can able to do it in just a few days. I think those scaling when we have a sudden burst of workload, was the major challenge for OpenShift was able to work on.
- I'll say the first one is obviously high availability, right? Because now application earlier, if you take any application that used to run WebSphere legacy platform, we'll have a side or B side. And that was not a true failover. But now with OpenShift we can add multiple ports, you can have four ports or eight ports, 10 ports how your business or application needs. So it's very what you call no downtime and literally there is no downtime.
- Another example you can say the patching now we have to patch due to compliance every month. So we do rolling updates so there is no downtime so I'll say highly available, scalable, another security is another great feature that we can use core os. So those are the key features
- So one thing I can think of is the cloud where we are going because now we are seeing workload going to AWS or Azure. I think there'll be a lot of integration needed from the OpenShift, how we can leverage more cloud services as the industry is moving toward that direction.
- One thing I can definitely mention, we are trying to do a database. First I'll start with the Redis in-memory database. So we had that installed on the openshift. But the way Redis in-memory works is they have their own DNS. And now with the state full set it was challenging when we patched and it did not work. We had to do a manual intervention. So those are challenges especially when you have state full workload like databases, how do you scale those, right? So those are big challenges that we can overcome.
February 13, 2024
Eases app development and deployments.
Red Hat OpenShift helped us upgrade some of the legacy internal applications used across a particular team in one geo location. These apps were run from virtual/remote environments, using Red Hat OpenShift we are now able to move these to the cloud service. It improved the scalability of the applications and now we are able to use the same application across various teams seamlessly.
- Usage of the Cloudservice
- Simplified and readily available APIs which improves the development speeds
- Remote debugging capabilities which again helps finding issues faster
- High scalability
- Complex due to several different components. Often we need employees to be trained to make full use of the Red Hat OpenShift platform capabilities. Training employees again slow down development/increase costs.
- Expensive as compared to other cloud based platforms like Kubernetes
As an enterprise organization with mission-critical applications - Red Hat OCP helps my organization - build, deploy, operate, maintain, and integrate containerized applications that are secure, scalable, and stable - across multiple platforms. Red Hat OpenShift helps to build native and containerized cloud applications quickly to react to market forces, capitalize on market opportunities, and innovate to market-changing trends. OpenShift helps to application development time, time to value, and market with safer applications, stabler, and more secure. At the same time - the deployed applications are consistent across on-prem or in public clouds or private data centers - in physical or virtual environments. OpenShift can also be used simultaneously - on legacy applications to modernize and deploy anywhere or everywhere, including at the edges or on factory/shop floors.
- Single point and centralized visibility for hybrid or multi cloud deployments.
- Multi-cloud and multi-cluster security across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.
- Enhanced security - with security contexts and selinux hardening.
- Enhanced security to application code - container registry and security/vulnerability scanning capabilities.
- Knowledge diffusion with less friction since OpenShift skills are non-trivial and demanding.
- Improved support for issues arising when using OpenShift.
- Improved samples catalog - examples, samples and tutorial code.
Red Hat OpenShift is a Kubernetes distribution that aims to resolve the containerized needs of customers securely. In addition to the package, behind the distro, there is Red Hat with his support team and implementation team. The distro, of course, has license and support costs that could be a huge part of the maintenance infrastructure costs. Do not forget also that Red Hat has made strong design politics with OpenShift that force a vendor lock-in in several parts of the day two operation.
- Workload management.
- Security
- Simplicity of deployment with an extensive helm char catalog.
- Vendor lock-in.
- Maintenance cost.
- Short ttl of the releases.
February 06, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift opens windows to opportunities and flexibility
We leverage Red Hat OpenShift to have agility, flexibility, security and speed in deploying and scaling applications in a hybrid cloud and on premise ecosystem.
- Provides enterprise grade security in user friendly way
- includes pre-designed templates and an intuitive interface that is well received and furthermore customizable
- Provides access to rich value adding network of partners and open source technologies.
- Developers that prefer more structure may prefer other technologies
I use Red Hat OpenShift to manage and deploy containerized applications. With Red Hat OpenShift, it's easy to orchestrate and automate the deployment, scaling them horizontally. This addresses business problems such as ensuring high availability, scalability, and ease of maintenance for our IT infrastructure. In my case, I can easily deploy applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure complexities.
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)
- A user-friendly Web console
- Multi-Tenancy (multi projects)
- Commercial support
- Integration with Non-Red Hat Technologies
- Cost Considerations
- Resource Consumption
January 30, 2024
RedHat OpenShift for future-proof agility and rapid growth.
I can quickly spin up containerized environments for testing and iterating on new ML models without worrying about infrastructure setup. OpenShift's built-in CI/CD pipelines automate the build and deployment process. Once a model proves promising, I can scale it to handle production traffic using its autoscaling features. Working with a team of integration experts, OpenShift offers a great platform for sharing and collaborating on models, and we can easily run different versions of models in parallel and compare their performance.
- It integrates well with popular cloud providers (CSPs) like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, adding flexibility and choice for cloud deployments. OpenShift provides centralized ingress control for managing how external traffic reaches applications running across multiple clusters and simplifies security management.
- OpenShift's S2I capability builds container images directly from source code and eliminates the need for manual configuration to provide consistency across deployments. Developers can push code changes and deploy updates to production environments to reduce manual work and accelerate release cycles.
- We take advantage of OpenShift's hybrid cloud capabilities. We run ML workloads on both on-prem infrastructure and public cloud platforms, depending on resource needs and cost considerations.
- OpenShift isn't exactly beginner-friendly. The initial setup is a bit challenging, and navigating the console feels like deciphering hieroglyphics for someone new to Kubernetes.
- Juggling multiple OpenShift clusters across different environments is still a clunky experience. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management helps, but it adds another layer of complexity to an already intricate system.
- While OpenShift integrates with popular CI/CD tools, the experience isn't always smooth. Integrating GitOps workflows directly into OpenShift would make deployments even more easy and flexible.
January 30, 2024
A complete PaaS solution for private cloud environments
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