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Feature Set Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service

9.8
CloudFoundry
98%
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
CloudFoundry ranks higher in 6/6 features
CloudFoundry ranks higher in 6/6 features
Ease of building user interfaces
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Scalability
9.0
90%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Development environment creation
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Development environment replication
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Issue recovery
10.0
100%
1 Rating
N/A
0 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes
10.0
100%
1 Rating
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Attribute Ratings
- CloudFoundry is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

10.0
CloudFoundry
100%
1 Rating
8.8
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
88%
9 Ratings
Support Rating

CloudFoundry
N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
70%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
CloudFoundry
It's well suited if:
- The organization has large number of applications that needs to be deployed frequently.
- The organization is tied to the DevOps mindset.
- The organization has programs in different languages.
- The applications does not need EJB's support that servers like web logic provide.
- The applications needs security configuration within the same CloudFoundry instance.
- The organization, for whatever reason does not want developers to manage the instances.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
OpenShift is well suited if you want to use docker and [Kubernetes] but you want to hide the complexity of these two technologies. It gives a developer much more freedom in terms of code deployment, builds process, and implementation. One of its strengths is scaling and you can easily configure it for each application.
Cyber Security and Blockchain Blogger
WitQuakeE-Learning, 51-200 employees
Pros
CloudFoundry
- Support for Orgs and Spaces that allow for managing users and deployables within a large organization.
- Easy deployment, deploying code is as simple as executing single line from CLI, thanks to build-packs.
- Solid and rich CLI, that allows for various operations on the instance.
- Isolated Virtual Machines called Droplets, that provide clean run time environment for the code. This used to be a problem with Weblogic and other application servers, where multiple applications are run on the same cluster and they share resources.
- SSH capability for the droplet (isolated VM's are called droplets), that allows for real time viewing of the App code while the application is running.
- Support for multiple languages, thanks to build-packs.
- Support for horizontal scaling, scaling an instance horizontally is a breeze.
- Support for configuring environment variable using the service bindings.
- Supports memory and disk space limit allocation for individual applications.
- Supports API's as well as workers (processes without endpoints)
- Supports blue-green deployment with minimal down time
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
- Implementing and integration platform to move infrastructure from on-premise hardware to the cloud[.]
- Establishes a robust network and an updated infrastructure to develop intelligent and integrated services[.]
- Makes internal development easier and faster and improves data access to developers[.]
Head of Innovation & IT Infrastructure
NanoString Technologies, Inc.Biotechnology, 501-1000 employees
Cons
CloudFoundry
- Does not support stateful containers and that would be a nice to have.
- Supports showing logs, but does not persist the logs anywhere. This makes relying on Cloud Foundry's logs very unreliable. The logs have to be persisted using other third party tools like Elk and Kibana.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
- Better API integration with a wider eco system
- CLI, UI and API could be better in terms of usability
- More security feature for east and west traffic, proxy and load balancing

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
CloudFoundry
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Support Rating
CloudFoundry
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 7.0
Based on 2 answers
I think response time for IBM Cloud support should be improved.
Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager
GRUPO DATCOInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees
Alternatives Considered
CloudFoundry
While Docker shines in providing support for volumes and stateful instances, Cloud foundry shines in providing support for deploying stateless services.Heroku shines in integrating with Git and using commits to git as hooks to trigger deployments right from the command line. But it does not provide on-premise solution that Cloud foundry provides.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
We are using IBM Cloud App ID as a simple method to get an OIDC provider for our applications, that are running within the OpenShift cluster. Also, IBM Cloud Object Storage is used within the workload to store data via an s3 compliant way. The IBM Cloud Container Registry is an easy way to store the container images, that are used within the OpenShift cluster. Especially we configured the system in such a way to stop the image delivery if the container images are vulnerable. IBMs Cloud Pak for Integration and Business Automation is providing a rich feature set, that is tackling a lot of use-cases. They are both installable in the provided cluster easily.

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
CloudFoundry
- Positive impact, since it simplifies the deployment time by a huge margin. Without cloud foundry, deploying a code needs coordination with infrastructure teams, while with cloud foundry, its a simple one line command. This reduces the deployment time from at least few hours to few minutes. Faster deployments promote faster dev cycle iterations.
- Code maintenance such as upgrading a Node or Java version is as simple as updating the build-pack. Without cloud foundry, using web logic, the specific version only supports a specific version of Java. So updating the version involves upgrading the version of web logic that needs to involve few teams. So without cloud foundry, it takes at least few days, with cloud foundry, its a matter of few mins.
- Overall, happier Developers and thats harder to quantify.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
- Helped us migrate on perm apps to cloud
- Provided easy to use dev experience for devs without kube experience
- Provided a secure rbac solution for many different teams running workloads on the same cluster

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Investment Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees