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Red Hat OpenShift

Overview

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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Recent Reviews

Openshift Review

8 out of 10
February 26, 2024
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So we have implemented a new payment platform based on microservices, running in containers and the client decided to go with the …
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How Red Hat OpenShift Differs From Its Competitors

Application Development and Delivery

OpenShift has provided a solid and well-architected architecture for deploying the workloads. The ifra is solid and reliable, like every other Kubernetes distribution, well installed and configured. If you adopt a well-architected distro, or you are able to install Kubernetes open source by …
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Application Development and Delivery

An application can be easily and quickly scaled—there's no need to provision new machines, deploy the application twice, or create a new balancer. Infrastructure tasks become easy to handle.
Developer productivity increases as he doesn't need infrastucture skills to build/deploy his application.
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Application Development and Delivery

Our deployments are automated workflows now, triggered by code changes. We can push updates confidently, knowing they'll land safely and consistently across environments. Each service is self-contained, where development and testing are way faster. No more worrying about dependency conflicts or …
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Application Development and Delivery

I can't comment on the development part as I am not the developer but I can tell about the deployment that it is greatly enhanced with the integration of GitOps with Red Hat OpenShift. The maintenance is also easy for the infrastructure because the Red Hat OpenShift console provides all the policy …
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Application Development and Delivery

The way our organisation develops and maintains apps has significantly changed as a result of OpenShift. Our developers can work more quickly as a result, which speeds up the creation and updating of programmes. In term of communication I can say it largely impacted the connectivity between …
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Application Development and Delivery

We had a log of legacy applications, and we are in the midst of a multi-year effort to migrate to the cloud. OpenShift has helped us port applications over to the hybrid cloud solution - which is a requirement in our financial industry, given the data security constraints. We've been able to …
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Application Development and Delivery

One of the noticeable (positive) impacts Red Hat has had is the way we are able to investigate, identify, and better approach database issues. By analyzing the data/results from Red Hat, we find that getting to the root cause (and addressing/resolving it) has increased by at least 25%.
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Popular Features

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  • Scalability (90)
    8.7
    87%
  • Platform access control (84)
    8.4
    84%
  • Upgrades and platform fixes (83)
    7.8
    78%
  • Platform management overhead (82)
    7.3
    73%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Contributor in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 5001-10,000 employees
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Director in Information Technology
Banking Company, 1001-5000 employees

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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/…

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

7.9
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 8.7.

The most common users of Red Hat OpenShift are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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May 24, 2023

Openshift v4.X rave reviews compared to OpenShiftv3.x.

DF
Dean Ferguson
System Administrator
Nasa (Government Administration, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use and maintain OCP for CI/CD, and delivery of internal gov applications. We also deploy and maintain our own infrastructure applications in our OCP clusters.
Pros and Cons
  • Build processes are quicker, so our app devs can expedite application deployment.
  • Openshift serves as a great environment for collaboration and testing applications, prior to Production deployment.
  • Upgrades on OCPv4.X are easy, quick, and seamless.
  • Redhat constantly adds new feature sets on a regular basis.
  • Certificate management and rotation could be more definitive, i.e., which certificates expire every 1 year, as opposed to every 2 years.
  • Sometimes, rarely at best, we need to cycle our Thanos-querier pods due to an alert target firing in the alert manager.
  • Early warning, pertaining to control plane issues, ie ETCD slowness, due to HUGE workloads. We do get alerts, but usually after the fact.
Likelihood to Recommend
Any environment, whether cloud or on-prem data centers that have an app development team could fully utilize the OCP platform.
Red Hat OpenShift Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
98.18181818181819%
9.8
Ease of building user interfaces
100%
10.0
Scalability
100%
10.0
Platform management overhead
100%
10.0
Workflow engine capability
100%
10.0
Platform access control
100%
10.0
Services-enabled integration
100%
10.0
Development environment creation
100%
10.0
Development environment replication
100%
10.0
Issue monitoring and notification
80%
8.0
Issue recovery
100%
10.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • We were able to decommission many VMs in our data center, once our application developers migrated their internal application workloads to OCP. This saved overhead, as per server administration.
  • Our infrastructure management team has been able to work with more agility to support our developers.
  • With the OCP platform, groups and namespace separation provide more security between applications and lines of business.
  • Collaboration is more of a reality due to the DevOps philosophy, which OCP reinforces.
Alternatives Considered
Openshift is less complex as far as implementation and deployment. Also, better support with RedHat.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
30
System administrators, application developers, infrastructure management.
Support Headcount Required
2
Knowledge of runtimes that support containerization, and application development/deployment. Internal networking knowledge is also needed.
Business Processes Supported
  • Application development and deployment.
  • Continuous Integration.
  • Agility, and the ability to achieve the same with a smaller workforce.
Innovative Uses
  • In our production OCP environment, our applications run consistently for long periods of time without disruptions.
  • A replacement for applications running on stand-alone VMs.
  • Training and knowledge transfers on how runtime, orchestration tools, and containerization works.
Future Planned Uses
  • We don't have any new ways to integrate OCP at this point in time.
Likelihood to Renew
10
Our environment has become reliant on the OCP platform and it's associated features.
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
Evaluation Lessons Learned
Personally, our evaluation process was right on the money.
Implementation Rating
10
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
Implementation Phases
No
Change Management Lessons
Change management was minimal
Implementation Issues
  • No issues implementing v4.x at all.
Support Rating
10
Back in the days of OSE v3.X, we had multiple RFEs and Bugzillas filed by Redhat on our behalf. Those RFEs and Bugzillas delivered solutions to our issues at the time.
Premium Support
Yes, as we are gov., we always need the highest level of vendor support.
Bug Resolution
Yes
Yes.
Exceptional Examples of Red Hat OpenShift Support
We tested the ETCD migration on OSEv3.X, and our cluster was dead. We worked with RHN support for nearly 20 hours straight to recover our cluster quorum with success.
Usability
10
The OCPv4.X platform is pretty straightforward, from DevOps to Appdev perspectives.
Easy Tasks
  • The installation of supplemental operators.
  • The application build process, then deployment.
  • UPGRADES!
Difficult Tasks
  • None, if you were unfortunate enough to have experienced OSEv3.x!
May 24, 2023

OpenShift for the Enterprise K8s solution Win!

ML
Mark La Canne
IT Architect
NASA (Government Administration, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use OpenShift to containerize over 11 Lines of business with approximately 127 unique applications.
Pros and Cons
  • Container workload logical separation with projects and networking.
  • Integrate easily into the NASA Identity Management solution.
  • Makes managing Enterprise Kubernetes easy for a small Operations team.
  • Would love to see easier use of OpenShift developer tools.
  • I would like to see better error logs with respect to issues that directly impact the User log. For example, we lost DNS and we were unable to log into the UI. It took some digging to relate the error to the loss of DNS.
Likelihood to Recommend
OpenShift is the best Enterprise Kubernetes solution available. It has everything you need to deliver a secure Enterprise Hardened Kubernetes cluster with a set of developer tools necessary to help an IT organization begin its journey to a Container/Cloud native solution.
Red Hat OpenShift Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (11)
81.81818181818181%
8.2
Ease of building user interfaces
90%
9.0
Scalability
90%
9.0
Platform management overhead
70%
7.0
Workflow engine capability
90%
9.0
Platform access control
100%
10.0
Services-enabled integration
80%
8.0
Development environment creation
100%
10.0
Development environment replication
N/A
N/A
Issue monitoring and notification
90%
9.0
Issue recovery
90%
9.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
100%
10.0
Return on Investment
  • By containerizing our application suites onto OpenShift, we have reduced our operational staff from 10 to 2.
  • Tier one Trouble tickets have been reduced by 20%.
Alternatives Considered
OpenShift is the clear winner. It contains all components necessary to deliver a truly Enterprise ready K8s solution and developer experience.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
30
They are developers, DevSecOps, security, and business Analysts who are responsible for the Agency Platform Services, and Application portfolio.
Support Headcount Required
2
Admins, developers, and Engineers.
Business Processes Supported
  • Application development.
  • Containerizing Legacy Applications.
  • Migrating applications from on-prem to the cloud.
Innovative Uses
  • We have used OpenShift to fundamentally change the way in-house applications are developed and deployed.
Future Planned Uses
  • To provide a Cloud DR solution.
  • To look at an Active/Active distributed application environment.
Likelihood to Renew
10
Because Openshift is the flagship solution for Enterprise Kubernetes.
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Ease of Use
We wanted a K8s solution that made deploying and managing Kubernetes easier.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I wouldn't.
Implementation Rating
9
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
  • Third-party professional services
Red Hat
Implementation Phases
Yes
Phase 1 - implementation Phase 2 - training
Change Management Lessons
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Implementation Issues
  • culture adaptation of Kubernetes
Support Rating
9
For the most part, Red Hat support of OpenShift is outstanding.
Premium Support
Yes, because we are a 24x7 shop and we run all Agency business applications on OpenShift. Any kind of sustained outage is simply not an option for us.
Bug Resolution
Yes
For the most part.
Exceptional Examples of Red Hat OpenShift Support
No.
Usability
9
Because using OpenShift is intuitive and fairly easy to follow and use.
Easy Tasks
  • Identity management integration.
  • Operator installation.
  • Upgrades.
Difficult Tasks
  • None.
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