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Red Hat OpenShift

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What is Red Hat OpenShift?

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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Red Hat OpenShift

8 out of 10
June 03, 2024
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build new work loads.moving toward containerize the applications.faster deployments & environments setup for different teams
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Popular Features

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  • Scalability (180)
    8.8
    88%
  • Platform access control (169)
    8.3
    83%
  • Upgrades and platform fixes (168)
    8.1
    81%
  • Platform management overhead (167)
    7.8
    78%

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Video Reviews

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Keeping it Modernized - Red Hat OpenShift Review from a Systems Analyst
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IT Systems Engineer Gets Honest | OpenShift Review
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Thoughts from an Administrator - Red Hat OpenShift Review
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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $0.08 per hour
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Product Demos

Demo: How to try out single-node OpenShift from Red Hat

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Hands-on demo of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

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Features

Platform-as-a-Service

Platform as a Service is the set of tools and services designed to make coding and deploying applications much more efficient

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Avg 8.2
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Product Details

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 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.
Why choose Red Hat OpenShift cloud services?
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
Why choose self-managed Red Hat OpenShift?
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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Red Hat OpenShift Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Red Hat OpenShift is the best platform for microservices-based modern apps lifecycle management and hosting.

[Red Hat OpenShift] is not suited for old windows server virtualization [or if] you have legacy heavy systems.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Easy to deploy with different methods. CLI and UI options.
Asad Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Well suited for - Telco core applications (CNFs) Telco RAN applications (CNFs) Any containerized application based on microservices. Less appropriate for - VM based applications Monolithic applications Applications require no or very less updates or upgrades Applications with complex requirement of observability & user access
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Good support for the product, ease of use , good design for the product, simple, multiple platforms support with most of public clouds and on Prem platform. Supports single node deployment for quick start and poc. People can try stuff and then if like it move to full scale openshift cluster.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Good to use if deploying multiple containers where without OS you would end up having to manage your own Kubernetes deployment.

Less useful where you want to just deploy a container during development.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Most well suited for traditional hosting needs, where you need to manage configuration management, secret handling and scaling. This is more of an Iaas than a PaaS offering
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Openshift is suitable for microservices-based development environments. In our business, there are sudden peaks in the volumes of trades to be processed. Openshift is suitable as auto-scaling helps our developers focus more on business logic and worry less about infrastructure management. As a heavily regulated industry, Openshift's security features, like RBAC access control and secure containers, help us meet compliance requirements.
June 03, 2024

Red Hat OpenShift

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
it is suited when using to automate , build , deploy using pipelines to integrate
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Red Hat OpenShift is well suited for containers and container management. It makes running applications in container easier to do. There is also many development features to have an ide in your browser. What is lacking is the VMs and replacing VDI it needs more features like that.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
I have tried several Kubernetes offerings and Red Hat OpenShift is easily the most intuitive.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Red Hat OpenShift is best suited for container workloads where High Availability is of utmost importance. Between the high availability and the rolling upgrades, Red Hat OpenShift makes sense to be the top choice for those types of workloads. Red Hat OpenShift makes Kubernetes even easier to manage and administer.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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.
I've seen multiple universities that have quite investments in Red Hat enterprise virtualization. They don't want to go with the VMware route due to the expense. So Red Hat OpenShift virtualization is a natural fit for them in that environment. I've also seen a lot of VMware customers that are not able financially to sustain the cost increases with the product. So they're looking for an alternative. And Red Hat OpenShift virtualization fills that need.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
In one sentence, I would say where all you want to deploy, is any cloud native applications: go for Red Hat OpenShift.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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.
It will be interesting to see how Openshift Virt supports large-scale VM deployments (> 20,000 VMS). Hubert was originally conceived as a bridge from virtualization to containers, not necessarily as an enterprise virtualization solution. Nevertheless, it's always surprising to see how customers use solutions regardless of their original intent. My gut feeling is that Openshift with Openshift can cover most of our requirements—in the 80% range.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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.
Where you can use it is to transform legacy software into a microservice software. This is where we do the most projects. Most customers have really old systems, so we are doing the full transformation from monolith to microservice and this is really good. It's a brilliant scenario for that.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
It is best used for an on-prem or hybrid solution and a coherent Kubernetes experience.
May 10, 2024

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Siva Kusampudi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
For organizations that have on-premise infrastructure, Red Hat Openshift makes sense for them.
Carlos Huerta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Business critical operation What do you need to have elastic assignment of resources is good for project where you need to assign resources very quickly and efficiently
May 10, 2024

My review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
When you are seeking out a singular platform, having Red Hat is one of the better software suites. The difficulty comes with certain lack of integration with non RHEL products. Since Red Hat isn’t the only vendor used it can be difficult to have compatibility across other vendors. I understand wanting to keep things in the Red Hat family.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Supporting our Application.<br><br>improved productivity tremendously
  • Individual MR
  • Integrated Monitoring
  • Simple UI
  • Cluster updates
  • ACS integration to org workflow
If an application is too small, it’s wouldn’t be worth the work/cost.

in a large scale enterprise solution it has a lot of value. We were able to increase our productivity in our dev Env by at least 3x. We left Jenkins and moved to tekton which was a very positive outcome.
May 10, 2024

New Customer

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Red Hat OpenShift provides great support for customers
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are starting to use OpenShift to containerize our main software application. OpenShift is our preferred solution as Rancher, the solution that our software provider is pushing is open source and support is a concern of ours.
  • Supportability
  • Ease of use
  • Great Operator support
  • Easier implementation in a fully disconnected environement
  • Ability to block operators
It is more suited in an enterprise environment. Its less suited in a smaller environment where cost is more difficult.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
To try and test the integration of our storage products with OpenShift.
  • Scalability.
  • Capability of container apps.
  • Long term enterprise support by Red Hat.
  • Cost
  • Difficulty in migrating from an already existing environment.
  • Control panel.
I have no specific scenarios.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
From a distributor perspective, we engage with business partners or resellers to promote and sell Red Hat OpenShift to their end clients. In all honesty, we don't have an issue with the product since we don't directly use the product. From our customers perspective, the only thing they don't really care for (from the feedback I've received) is that they are under IBM. As for the product itself, I haven't heard anything really negative.
  • cloud-native
  • automating application
  • can deploy on many platforms
  • enhance security
I think its well suited in so many scenarios
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