TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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.

    $0.08

    per hour

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.N/A
    Pricing
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Considered Both Products
    Red Hat
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    OpenShift integrates the other products in the Red Hat suite easily.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    Ocp integrates good with AAP as an operator

    We also used ACS and ACM
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    Red Hat OpenShift was the product that my team has been using since I've joined so it has been the only product in this area that I have used. With that being said, I have really no complaints and love implemented Red Hat OpenShift in my work to help be more efficient with my …
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    It definitely has additional bells and vessels like SM, UI and monitoring/logging stack
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    Tanzu is great as well, but I find Red Hat OpenShift more cost friendly and more Opensource apps available.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    we just got into Red Hat OpenShift and never got back
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    AAP is one of the great deployment tool , it is the most efficient way to deploy apps by creating a quick self manage playbooks.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    They are all nice products, and they all have their place. But I'm convinced that from now on, instead of instantly just creating a Kubernetes cluster, I'm going to start seeing if Red Hat OpenShift is the best answer based on the project's overall needs. It's truly made that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    We have only used Red Hat OpenShift.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    So far Red Hat OpenShift seems to be the superior Kubernetes platform manager.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    It is a great compliment to the other services.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    These were both stood up for separate products. Needless to say the workloads on CDP are going to be migrated to Red Hat OpenShift in the very near future.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    kubernaties falls a bit short where Red Hat OpenShift gives a batter way to manage
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    OpenShift offers a complete suite of plugins and services already set and configured. Saving time to connect with authentication services, monitoring, logs and CI/CD.
    Incentivized
    Red Hat
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a trusted solution.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Rocky Linux. CentOS, Arch about every distribution of Linux. Stability and reliability are king and the support. If something happens or you just hit a bug, that's why you go to Red Hat.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    RHEL because of more wide adoption, stability, general knowledge on the platform and less nonsensical approach to various platform functionalities
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    About he same but is way more mature just because it has been around much longer
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    I feel that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is more user friendly than SLES. There are slight differences and I think Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has the edge over SLES.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the goto Linux operating system compared to Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux when you need / want an RPM based operating system, no questions asked. Some applications only support Debian based operating systems which is disappointing, and thus Ubuntu is the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    It helps and can be used in red hat open shift vms.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Containers vs not
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers us the flexibility to choose our flavor of virtualization. As our forecasts are inputted, we can either use OpenStack or OpenShift to suit our needs.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Our use of RHEL has been orthogonal to our exploration of OpenShift and Kubernetes. We have experimented with using minimal footprint RHEL instances inside containers to minimize the total size of our containers.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    315 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    295 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    268 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    253 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    322 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    289 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    218 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    188 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    255 Answers
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    253 Answers
    Features
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Feature
    Red Hat OpenShift
    8.4
    324 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    -
    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces8.6275 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.3309 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead8.3290 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.6262 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control8.3291 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration8.5273 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation8.6283 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication8.3270 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification7.9284 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery8.1279 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes8.5285 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating System
    Comparison of Operating System features of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Feature
    Red Hat OpenShift
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    8.4
    78 Ratings
    4% below category average
    File Management00 Ratings8.073 Ratings
    Software Application Management00 Ratings8.075 Ratings
    System Update Frequency00 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Operating System Security00 Ratings9.378 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    CentOS Linux
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    IBM AIX
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Ubuntu
    Score8.2 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (339 ratings)
    8.8
    (302 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (26 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    8.5
    (194 ratings)
    Availability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (125 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (9 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Red Hat
    Red Hat OpenShift, despite its complexity and overhead, remains the most complete and enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform available. It excels in research projects like ours, where we need robust CI/CD, GPU scheduling, and tight integration with tools like Jupyter, OpenDataHub, and Quiskit. Its security, scalability, and operator ecosystem make it ideal for experimental and production-grade AI workloads. However, for simpler general hosting tasks—such as serving static websites or lightweight backend services—we find traditional VMs, Docker, or LXD more practical and resource-efficient. Red Hat OpenShift shines in complex, container-native workflows, but can be overkill for basic infrastructure needs.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    There's a lot of things that can and can't be discussed. But as I mentioned earlier, cloud computing and on-prem, and very much like in the cloud, having a standard image ISO, deploying that, the configurations with Ansible or packages installed via Ansible, instead of just a Kickstart script, you have a set of scripts that run in a pipeline that deploy Red Hat. So I'd say the environments, every time I've used Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a computing solution has been, like I mentioned, reusable, scalable, positive. And I don't think I've ever found any situations where I wish I were using something other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux, because the support is not there for anything else as much as it is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    • Virtualization, like the operating system level task. I see this product is very good and it blends very well with the middleware components like all the JBoss and other things. And other than that, either you install it or a virtual machine or physical servers, it works seamlessly anywhere. And if you want to go further, like Red Hat OpenShift or those things also work very nice with it.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Red Hat
    • I wouldn't necessarily say there is look everyday technology transform. I can see a trend wherein Red Hat OpenShift is adopting all the new technology trends and helping their customers align with their priorities and the emerging technology trends. I wouldn't call out various scope for development every day. There is scope for development. It is all how the organizations adopt it and how they deliver it to their customers. I don't want to call out there is scope for development. It's happening. It is a never ending process.
    • At the moment, I don't have anything to call out. We are experiencing Red Hat OpenShift and we can see every day they're coming up with new features as and when they come up with new features, we want to experience it more and more. We are looking for opportunities wherein this can be leveraged to help our users and partners.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) needs better built-in developer-centric tooling.
    • The desktop experience is too barebones, which makes it less attractive for developer workstations.
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) needs to be integrated and available in GItHub Actions as a supported platform so code developed on GitHub can be tested and qualified there.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    We find RHEL to be a superior OS with stable operations and long life. It is also easier to use and fix then most other OS's.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Usability
    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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    It's pretty intuitive and easy to use. Everything is adjustable; everything is customizable through a set of yaml's and everything can be undone and re-done. Doing items such a modification and restarting the single app doesnt take down the whole operating system like one of the more popular GUI based operating systems. We can work on live production systems without breaking into a sweat.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Reliability and Availability
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    Product support and regular patches.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Performance
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    As with any OS enhanced testing will need to be done prior to application integration.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    Red Hat support has really come a long way in the last 10 years, The general support is great, and the specialized product support teams are extremely knowledgeable about their specific products. Response time is good and you never need to escalate.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    In-Person Training
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Don't be afraid of it, its easy to install and configure for the tasks needed.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    Windows Server can take a long time to patch, waiting for the patch to install, then waiting to apply, after the OS is rebooted it can also take additional time to apply the update. Often times Windows Server patches can fail, leading to long troubleshooting times and application outages. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Patching is extremely quick, I've honestly not seen a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) update fail to install in many years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) patching.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    Operational ease of use backed by support
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Red Hat
    • That is a complicated question and one that's not easy for me to answer. There's a lot of factors that go into all of the stuff that we just don't have an easy way of measuring. And we realize that while we're implementing Red Hat OpenShift, we've tried to start measuring some of that stuff, but we don't have a baseline to go on. So it's hard to say. What I can tell you is general experience with the platform has been extremely positive from the development aspect. Teams have been very, very happy with the speed at which they're able to do stuff. They've been happy with that. The way it works in one environment is exactly the way it works in the next environment because we don't have configuration drift, that type of thing, and has had very positive impacts. But we didn't have a baseline to start with. So I can't talk about getting there faster or anything like that.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Red Hat
    • It has done wonders for my career because I come from a Linux background, HPUX, Solaris and AIX. So made this transition to Linux 20 years ago. So it has really put my career at the forefront of what we do in the company. We're still primarily a window shop, but with Red Hat and what they're doing with the Kubernetes integration with OpenShift, with the East Satellite Management, the Ansible stuff, all based on Red Hat. It's taken off at my company and we're very happy about it.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots