Red Hat OpenShift vs. Red Hat Runtimes

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
OpenShift 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 Runtimes
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Red 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
Pricing
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Runtimes
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Runtimes
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Runtimes
Considered Both Products
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat Runtimes
Chose Red Hat Runtimes
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 …
Features
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Runtimes
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Red Hat OpenShift
8.2
277 Ratings
5% above category average
Red Hat Runtimes
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Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces8.1239 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability9.0265 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead7.9247 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability7.9225 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control8.4249 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration8.2234 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation8.6242 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.5229 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification7.8242 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery7.7240 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes8.4243 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Runtimes
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(266 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(27 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
5.5
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(131 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.9
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 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)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Runtimes
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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Red Hat
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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Red Hat
  • 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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Red Hat
  • Migration Toolkit for Applications.
  • JBoss Web Server.
  • Identity management and access control.
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Likelihood to Renew
Red Hat
OpenShift is really easy of use through its management console. OpenShift gives a very large flexibility through many inbuilt functionalities, all gathered in the same place (it's a very convenient tool to learn DevOps technics hands on) OpenShift is an ideal integrated development / deployment platform for containers
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Usability
Red Hat
The virtualization part takes some getting used to it you are coming from a more traditional hypervisor. Customization options are not intuitive to these users. The process should be more clear. Perhaps a guide to Openshift Virtualization for users of RHV, VMware, etc. would ease this transition into the new platform
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
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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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
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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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Red Hat
Every time we need to get support all the Red Hat team move forward looking to solve the problem. Sometimes this was not easy and requires the scalation to product team, and we always get a response. Most of the minor issues were solved with the information from access.redhat.com
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
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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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.
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Red Hat
The learning curve is quite high but worth it.
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
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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Red Hat
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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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
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Red Hat
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Red Hat
  • All of the above. Red Hat OpenShift going into a developer-type setting can be stood up very quickly. There's a very short period to have developers onboard to it and they're able to become productive much faster than a grow your own type solution.
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Red Hat
  • Total Economic Impact (TEI) study.
  • Red hat openShift.
  • Red hat services and support.
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