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    Backstage

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ABackstage is an open source framework for building developer portals. Powered by a centralized software catalog, Backstage restores order to microservices and infrastructure and enables product teams to ship code quickly without compromising autonomy.

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    Red Hat OpenShift

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AOpenShift 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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    BackstageRed Hat OpenShift
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    BackstageRed Hat OpenShift
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Features
    BackstageRed Hat OpenShift
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    Red Hat OpenShift
    8.4
    326 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.7276 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings9.3311 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.3292 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.6264 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings8.1293 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.3275 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings8.5285 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.3272 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.8286 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings8.1281 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.5287 Ratings
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    IBM Cloud Foundry (discontinued)
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    BackstageRed Hat OpenShift
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    9.1
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    9.3
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    9.1
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    BackstageRed Hat OpenShift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    Backstage is well suited in building developer portal or developer platform. It can be easily customized as well, so different companies can use it based on their own situation. It currently focus more on frontend, but I can see there is already a roadmap for improving backend with some core modules. After that has been introduced, it will become really powerful and save developers time to solve common problems.
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    Red Hat
    OpenShift suits organizations that want to deploy containers at scale and have a mature DevOps and Kubernetes practice. It is not suited for small organizations that only need to deploy a few containers or are mainly a Windows shop. OpenShift requires deep technical expertise to maintain and operate.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • developer portal
    • easy to onboard
    • easy to extend
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    Red Hat
    • We had a few microservices that dealt with notifications and alerts. We used OpenShift to deploy these microservices, which handle and deliver notifications using publish-subscribe models.
    • We had to expose an API to consumers via MTLS, which was implemented using Server secret integration in OpenShift. We were then able to deploy the APIs on OpenShift with API security.
    • We integrated Splunk with OpenShift to view the logs of our applications and gain real-time insights into usage, as well as provide high availability.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • it may provide more modules that can solve common problems
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    Red Hat
    • The complexity. Some errors occur of systems that cant interact with each other I even dont know run. The system is way to complex in its structure. It is not a OCP issue itself but Kubernetes. To get more adapted, it must be much more integrated and stable.
    • The UI is part of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It should also be on the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine (in a simpler way)
    • Update Process is failing way too often. There are always issues.
    • The User enforcement cant be used in our environment. We need root in pods per standard. This is quite complicated in Red Hat OpenShift.
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    Open Source
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    Red Hat
    This is the current strategy for the company, most of the products in the organisation are aligning to Openshift and various use cases it support. Also lot of applications are being developed for AI use case, openshift.AI provides opportunity to host and leverage the AI capabilities for these applications
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    Usability
    Open Source
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    Red Hat
    As I said before, the obserability is one of the weakest point of OpenShift and that has a lot to do with usability. The Kibana console is not fully integrated with OpenShift console and you have to switch from tab to tab to use it. Same with Prometheus, Jaeger and Grafan, it's a "simple" integration but if you want to do complex queries or dashboards you have to go to the specific console
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    Reliability and Availability
    Open Source
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    Red Hat
    Redhat openshift is generally reliable and available platform, it ensures high availability for most the situations. in fact the product where we put openshift in a box, we ensure that the availability is also happening at node and network level and also at storage level, so some of the factors that are outside of Openshift realm are also working in HA manner.
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    Performance
    Open Source
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    Red Hat
    Overall, this platform is beneficial. The only downsides we have encountered have been with pods that occasionally hang. This results in resources being dedicated to dead or zombie pods. Over time, these wasted resources occasionally cause us issues, and we have had difficulty monitoring these pods. However, this issue does not overshadow the benefits we get from Openshift.
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    Support Rating
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    Red Hat
    Their customer support team is good and quick to respond. On a couple of occassions, they have helped us in solving some issues which we were finding a tad difficult to comprehend. On a rare occasion, the response was a bit slow but maybe it was because of the festival season. Overall a good experience on this front.
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    In-Person Training
    Open Source
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    Red Hat
    I was not involved in the in person training, so i
    can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly
    with Openshift and able to get the in person training done easily, i did not
    hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen
    seamlessly without any issue.
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    Online Training
    Open Source
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    Red Hat
    We went thru the training material on RH webesite, i think its very descriptive and the handson lab sesssions are very useful. It would be good to create more short duration videos covering one single aspect of openshift, this wll keep the interest and also it breaks down the complexity to reasonable chunks.
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    Red Hat
    The Tanzu Platform seemed overly complicated, and the frequent changes to the portfolio as well as the messaging made us uneasy. We also decided it would not be wise to tie our application platform to a specific infrastructure provider, as Tanzu cannot be deployed on anything other than vSphere. SUSE Rancher seemed good overall, but ultimately felt closer to a DIY approach versus the comprehensive package that Red Hat OpenShift provides.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Open Source
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    Red Hat
    It's easy to understand what are being billed and what's included in each type of subscription. Same with the support (Std or Premium) you know exactly what to expect when you need to use it. The "core" unit approach on the subscription made really simple to scale and carry the workloads from one site to another.
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    Scalability
    Open Source
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    Red Hat
    This is a great platform to deployment container applications designed for multiple use cases. Its reasonably scalable platform, that can host multiple instances of applications, which can seamlessly handle the node and pod failure, if they are configured properly. There should be some scalability best practices guide would be very useful
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • It speeds up our progress on building our own developer portal
    • It's free to use so very little investment
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    Red Hat
    • When you talk about ROIs, I don't have any negative impacts I wanted to call out here. There is no negative impacts. In fact, it's all positive impacts what we set as our milestones towards achieving our goals, towards achieving our greater vision. Red Hat OpenShift has got a big role in it and it is certainly helping us.
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