Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Solid on-prem k8s stack.
Simplifies managing kubernetes.
Adds new relevant features.

Still complex to deploy and manage on bare metal.

Return on Investment

Consolidation of K8s platforms.
Fast path to cloud native.
An enterprise class platform.

Application Development and Delivery

Positive impact. We use OpenShift extensively for our container workloads, which can be COTS or homegrown. We also plan to use it as a landing zone for general-purpose VMs or VMS that would benefit from K8s APIs and pipelines. We look forward to the production release of hosted control planes, which will be very beneficial.

Performance

Openshift performance is based on the underlying infrastructure, the K8s design, and the applications' design. Cloud-native applications should have resilience baked in and should not depend on infrastructure resilience. Standard stateful apps may still depend on the underlying infrastructure. It depends on the approach.

Key Insights

Do you think Red Hat OpenShift delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Red Hat OpenShift's feature set?

Yes

Did Red Hat OpenShift live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Red Hat OpenShift go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat OpenShift again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

A platform you can depend on.

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Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift