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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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    Red Hat Runtimes

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat Runtimes provides modern platforms to develop and run new and legacy applications—including Spring Boot, Reactive, JavaScript, Java EE, and MicroProfile—in a single ecosystem. It includes support for OpenJDK, in-memory datastore, and single sign-on completes the system. The products combine, enabling users to share resources and build more applications faster.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Red Hat
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    By security, stability and all ecosystem development life cycle tools.
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    Native integration with Redhat Open Shift Container Platform and Cloud native micro services development especially Java micro services with quarkus which very good alternative framework on that area. Open source support and Open JDK support are extremely important for most of …
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    Would buy again
    97%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    90%
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    Features
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    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Runtimes
    Feature
    Red Hat OpenShift
    8.4
    324 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Red Hat Runtimes
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    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
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    User Ratings
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Runtimes
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (339 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (26 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
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    Availability
    5.5
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    Performance
    9.0
    (125 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    7.0
    (9 ratings)
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    In-Person Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Professional Services
    7.3
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
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    User Testimonials
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    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.
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    Hat Red A collection of goods, equipment, and parts used in the creation and upkeep of cloud-native apps is known as runtimes. It provides lightweight runtimes and frameworks for highly distributed cloud architectures, like microservices, similar to Quarkus. Frameworks and runtimes selection of languages, runtimes, and frameworks enables developers and architects to select the best tool for the job. Quarkus, Spring Boot, Vert. x, and Node.js are all supported. In-memory distributed caching is a distributed in-memory data management system built for scalability and quick access to huge amounts of data.
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    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.
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    • Java micro services
    • Open JDK
    • Caching
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    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.
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    • Migration Toolkit for Applications.
    • JBoss Web Server.
    • Identity management and access control.
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    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
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Native integration with Redhat Open Shift Container Platform and Cloud native micro services development especially Java micro services with quarkus which very good alternative framework on that area. Open source support and Open JDK support are extremely important for most of the java developers and communities. Good documentation and howto tutorials
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    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.
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    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
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    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.
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    • Total Economic Impact (TEI) study.
    • Red hat openShift.
    • Red hat services and support.
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