IBM Cloud Foundry vs Red Hat OpenShift

Likelihood to Recommend

This really depends on which cloud vendor (if you have one) you are already working with. If you are already an IBM customer, then you should definitely give IBM Cloud Foundry a try. It is a great way to run your applications in the cloud, and does not have a steep learning curve as using Docker/Kubernetes, and in fact, can serve as an starting point to get you there overtime. You can usually find a buildpack (either directly from IBM or from the community) for your application, and the deployment usually does not require you to make any changes and you can get up and running in a few hours.

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C-Level Executive in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees

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As with any solution, it depends on how and why you want to deploy it. OpenShift is excellent for medium to large deployments, but I would caution against smaller deployments unless you're planning on ramping up to a larger deployment in short order. It just doesn't make financial sense to deploy it in a small configuration.

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Engineer in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

IBM Cloud Foundry

Red Hat OpenShift

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

Pros

Keeps things more standardized, ring fenced and thus easier for the end user to use
Open source, allowing for a wide group for education, auto and support
Developing at pace to keep up with the ever changing needs of the industry from on / off premise, public and private

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Administrator in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pre built cartridges, giving a huge range of software ready to go. Reduces the amount of time required to get up and running.
Integration with GIT was an advantage, cloning the repo and making changes was straight forward.
Speed, creating an environment in minutes, ready to deploy.

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Professional in Information Technology

Retail Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Need: VISUALIZATION CAPABILITIES! Particularly with the Conversation Service.
Need: Annotation capabilities for dialog nodes in Conversation Service.
Need: Search/querying capabilities in Conversation Service
Need: Clearer documentation of the S2T service. I had to use a third party website for an understanding of how to use this.

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River Hain

Solution Analyst — Machine Assisted Service Enagagement

AutodeskComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees

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I would like to see a public cloud using OpenShift and Docker integration. I am not aware if this is already available now.
I would like to see a tool that can help with extracting log files from the remote server like it being available on a Samba shared folder. And other applications that want to scan for keywords in the application log can check if there have been any errors or exceptions thrown by the application.

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Sonam Samdupkhangsar

Senior (Consultant) Software Engineer

Intermountain HealthcareHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

IBM Cloud Foundry 7.0

Based on 1 answer

No answer on this topic is available.

Red Hat OpenShift 10.0

Based on 4 answers

Leverage OpenShift Online constantly at both the free and paid tiers. While AWS is convenient, it often brings more administration than I want to deal with for a quick application (i.e. Drupal or Wordpress blog). OpenShift also simplifies the DNS registration and ability to share application environments with team members

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Isaac Christoffersen

Architect, Infrastructure Services

VizuriInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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Red Hat OpenShift 8.5

Based on 2 answers

It is easy to understand. Gives our team freedom to focus on the quality of our coding and not worry too much about build and deployment which honestly can be a headache for some of us. Also, customer support is fast and responsive so we don't have to wait for weeks for issues to get fixed.

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Consultant in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Red Hat OpenShift 9.0

Based on 8 answers

First of all OpenShift Help Portal is a great place to get assistance in case of any OpenShift platform related technical questions. When it comes to paid support subscription friendly support agents can find the right answer for you in a matter of minutes which is super efficient way of solving any critical issues.

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Employee in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

We have used Red Hat which does not do business in Australia with people like us. They were a promising service (PaaS) while we were able to use the free version but as soon as we needed access to serious mobile-first services we had to pay and their policy meant we had to leave. Don't know why they don't want to do this sort of low-end business in Australia.We briefly looked at Heroku and others but quickly realised that since we demand enterprise strength security, strength insight, and reliability, we had to choose IBM Bluemix.

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John Olsen

Director

IT Cloud Solutions AustraliaInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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For large to medium deployments the Red Hat OpenShift works great and better than other products. There is an advantage of integrating it with the GIT repository that makes the work quite easy and the user interface is quite easy to understand for a beginner too. OpenShift is inexpensive when it comes to cost and it doesn't take much time to run your application.

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Ankur Arora

Data Analyst

MphRxHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

Bluemix has allowed me to effectively serve the App industry more recently, especially with the new visual design implemented recently.
BlueMix offers a lot more customization of the Platform, rather than Infrastructure, giving me a big edge over other companies offering only AWS or Azure cloud services, and brings a lot more apparent value to my business.
The additional features, especially the Watson service subset offers a HUGE range of new and innovative technologies, especially in the realm of AI, that encourages my clients to test out new potential features, which leads to more sales as they increase there platform size and capability.

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Craig Nash

Sr. Solutions Architect

FreeTheHustle.ComInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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I have been able to cut my hosting costs almost to zero without sacrificing the ability to handle higher loads down the road.
I haven't received messages about the site being down since I started using OpenShift. I don't have to worry about fixing things myself when/if the network or some hardware fails.

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Peter Ivie

Full Stack Developer

GeneSys FoundationInternet, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

IBM Cloud Foundry Editions & Modules

Edition

Community Runtimes	$0.07¹

Per GBH

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Red Hat OpenShift Editions & Modules

Edition

Azure On Demand	$0.171¹
1-Year Reserved Instance	$0.114¹
3-Year Reserved Instance	$0.076¹

Per Hour

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Rating Summary

IBM Cloud Foundry

Red Hat OpenShift

IBM Cloud Foundry

Red Hat OpenShift

IBM Cloud Foundry

Red Hat OpenShift

IBM Cloud Foundry

Red Hat OpenShift

IBM Cloud Foundry

Red Hat OpenShift

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