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

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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

Return on Investment

Needs to be more cost friendly in AWS
Application onboarding needs to be faster
Operation efficiency is great

Application Development and Delivery

We are running multiple tier 1 applications in Red Hat OpenShift and it’s deeply integrated to our developer community via CICD and DevOps integrations. More training materials for new application teams and developers going to help on more adoption and growth. Also cost is the major factor for any application. Competitive cost options and better cost reporting inbuilt to Red Hat OpenShift cluster will be very helpful

Performance

Our applications running in Red Hat Openshift on AWS is very responsive and have no performance issues. We need to just make sure more security tools and faster application onboarding with right design and architecture so that we can define right strategy for developing and hosting more applications in Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift clusters

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Our developer community is using Red Hat OpenShift for years and they are familiar and comfortable with the product. Red Hat OpenShift UI makes it easier for new developers to adopt without knowing much of Kubernetes. Our platform team feels it’s easy to mange the cluster and upgrades. Other options has more operation overhead and less friendly to developers not have in-depth knowledge of Kubernetes.

Key Insights

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

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

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Likelihood to Recommend

Have great user interface for new developers to adopt Kubernetes than a plain vanilla Kubernetes cluster.
cluster management is getting easier and easier in each new version
cost needs to be optimized to provide a competitive rate compared to other Kubernetes options in the market
More approved / certified operator for other tools like New Relic will be great.

Red Hat OpenShift - A great Kubernetes platform to containerize your application

Software Version

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift