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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a comprehensive service that offers fully managed OpenShift clusters, on IBM Cloud platform. It is directly integrated into the same Kubernetes service that maintains 25 billion on-demand forecasts daily at The Weather Company.N/A

    SUSE Rancher

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ADeveloped by Rancher Labs and now from SUSE, Rancher is open-source software that enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale, on any infrastructure across the data center, cloud, branch offices, and the network edge. Rancher centrally manages Kubernetes clusters across the organization in order to ensure security and accelerate transformation. Rancher is also available hosted. Hosted Rancher is a fully managed Rancher control plane - presented as the fastest, most cost…

    $7,594.99

    per year up to 500 nodes

    Pricing
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM CloudSUSE Rancher
    Editions & Modules
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    Subscription license
    7,594.99
    per year up to 500 nodes
    Standard Subscription
    11,234.99
    per year 10 nodes
    Priority Subscription
    30,514.99
    per year 10 nodes
    Management Server Priority Subscription
    41,830.99
    per year 1 instance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM CloudSUSE Rancher
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM CloudSUSE Rancher
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is best when it comes to security capabilities and hybrid scenarios. With Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud we could provision new environments very quickly and in cost effective way. Customers could also use the cloud credits that they might have …
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    For our particular use case, Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud was very cost-competitive. We already had RHEL, OpenShift, and Ansible skills that translated to the service. From a feature and function perspective, most solutions have a parity but being open source and less chance …
    Incentivized
    SUSE
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM CloudSUSE Rancher
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud and SUSE Rancher
    Feature
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
    7.4
    7 Ratings
    10% below category average
    SUSE Rancher
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Security and Isolation8.77 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.27 Ratings8.77 Ratings
    Cluster Management7.17 Ratings7.47 Ratings
    Storage Management6.97 Ratings6.76 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization7.47 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Discovery Tools6.96 Ratings6.56 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks7.46 Ratings7.17 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery7.57 Ratings7.86 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging6.77 Ratings8.07 Ratings
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    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM CloudSUSE Rancher
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Kubernetes
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM CloudSUSE Rancher
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (16 ratings)
    8.8
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Red Hat OpenShift on IBM CloudSUSE Rancher
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    RedHat OpenShift is not only suited for IBM Cloud but can run in ANY cloud. We installed in Azure Cloud, for example. It can also run on Linux servers or a Power 9 machine. It is built for multi-cloud or on-prem environments. IBM support provides such excellent guidance in the installation and configuration that no other product on the market can beat it.
    Incentivized
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    SUSE
    SUSE Rancher as a management tool becomes useful on a larger scale. Small deployments not so much. If someone also requires Kubernetes capacity or storage, Rancher is an excellent choice. Also, without Kubernetes' skills, it is unlikely that Rancher deployment is going to be a success. Then again if someone else is managing your Kubernetes capacity, setting up the software's capacity will yield greater control. Rancher is not a very integrated solution similar to others in the market.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Multiclick provisioning of resources makes it super easy to manage pods and deployments. We don't have to maintain code for the same
    • In built security features and customizability ensures that organization wide standards are integrated well into the containers
    • Automated backups, scale ups and fail recovery makes sure of minimal down time
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    SUSE
    • Public and private cloud infrastructure providers based on K8s CAPI
    • REST API that can be used to integrate company services with Rancher
    • GUI that is easy to learn and use in daily operations
    • Builtin GitOps automation solution based on Fleet project
    • It is fully open source
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    Cons
    IBM
    • I wish it had better compatibility with docker file syntax. We had issues when it couldn't build standard docker files
    • Wish it had better documentation
    • Wish they offered fully supported client libraries for the Openshift API rather than dumping it on a 3rd party
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    SUSE
    • No possibility to snapshot Projects. You can snapshot and restore the whole Kubernetes cluster, but not a Project or Namespace. For this, you have to use external tools.
    • You cannot detach the Rancher-created Kubernetes clusters from Rancher management.
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    Usability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    SUSE
    Overall it deserves an 8 out of 10. The platform is very easy to use as long as the UI is stable. We have had a few buggy versions in the past. However the CLI is excellent and the platform is simple to manage and maintain. It is easy to deploy and offer for company wide use which increases utilization and ROI.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    I think response time for IBM Cloud support should be improved.
    Incentivized
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    SUSE
    The documentation is quite complete and there is a very active community that is willing to collaborate and answer questions for those who are just starting out.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    We evaluated a number of potential solutions and ultimately chose Red Hat OpenShift because it was compatible with our existing technology. Time and costs savings have been realized throughout the company since we implemented Red Hat OpenShift, and the IT department has been freed up to focus on activities that are more valuable.
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    SUSE
    We started using SUSE Rancher in the early days and spent a large amount of time getting to know and love it. This was before the days of some of the likes of Amazon Web Services who may now provide a cheaper but less feature-rich alternative to SUSE Rancher, however we have yet to explore this.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    SUSE
    The investment for small environments is quite significant. There has to be a compelling case to enhance the areas where SUSE Rancher brings in value to make such a financial leap. There is also a free version to test the value propositions, which will help support the user's buying decisions. More clusters, more volume, more tasks and more complexity in the environment equals more value that Rancher can provide.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Our customer satisfaction and NPS score has had positive outcomes based on new architecture
    • We are focused on business outcomes vs running the service and maintenance
    • OpenShift on IBM Cloud has had a direct, positive impact on TCO, ROI, and payback period
    • Our staff is more focused on higher-level business activities, i.e. acquiring & customer retention
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    SUSE
    • Shortens "Time-to-Market" factor for new business applications or implementing new functionalities. From 1 to 50 microservices-based business applications in 6 years.
    • 24/7 availability, generates more money. There are many infrastructure components that are regularly powered-off for maintenance or upgrade, bur we rarely are turning off our downstream Kubernetes clusters where our business applications lives.
    • Single Point of Contact with platform maintenance and development Team, eases implementation of new business applications
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