Red Hat OpenShift

Score9.1 out of 10

628 Reviews and Ratings

What is Red Hat OpenShift?

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.

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Scalability
Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand
Category average: 8.4
Ease of building user interfaces
Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools
Category average: 8.1
Workflow engine capability
Process automation using rule-based engine
Category average: 7.9

Development environment replication
Ease of replicating new development environments
Category average: 7.9
Issue recovery
Ease of recovery from problem state
Category average: 7.2
Issue monitoring and notification
Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems
Category average: 7.3

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Red Hat OpenShift.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

27.8%

4,328 installations of 15,546

“We use Red Hat OpenShift daily. It is our first option to go when we need to deploy microservices for any type of project.”
— Product and IT Project Manager Analysts III, Interaxa

#2 most frequent

Information

12.0%

1,860 installations of 15,546

“Positive Impact: Offers excellent features and seamless integration support for other tools, helping businesses gain valuable insights and improve their performance.”
— Systems Integration Advisor, NTT Data

#3 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

10.1%

1,564 installations of 15,546

“we use it for deploying container based applications and developing new applications”
— Infrastructure Engineer, NC State Employees Credit Union

Pros

Robust scalability for large-scale Kubernetes deployments
Comprehensive security features and secure-by-default posture
Streamlined application deployment and ongoing management

Cons

High subscription costs
Complex installation and configuration, especially for baremetal and air-gapped environments
Steep learning curve for new users and smaller teams

Andrew Stowell View profile

Data Engineer in Professional Services at 3Pillar Global (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

What I really like about Red Hat OpenShift is how it makes Kubernetes reliable for managing projects efficiently across our organization. The dev-topology feature provides a complete view, showing all entity names and spaces at a glance, eliminating the need to run multiple commands. It has strong security features that align with our policies.

Pros

Running and managing production workloads.
Monitoring identity providers.

Cons

One drawback I have noticed about this platform is that it can feel heavier and more complex than plain Kubernetes.

Return on Investment

It has enhanced cost saving for hybrid clod environments with positive ROI.

Other Software Used

Bitbuy, Google Antigravity, Asana

Bianca Nalder

Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Azilen Technologies (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Red Hat OpenShift enables me to streamline developer workflows on Kubernetes. Deployment of containerized applications has been efficient after shifting to this platform. It provides top grade security features that reduces risks of external attacks with without requiring extra setup configurations. The Role Based Access Control (RBAC) makes it easy to control and assign roles to each team .

Pros

Deployment of containerized applications.
Role assignment to each team to avoid user control conflicts.
Provision of security policies.

Cons

It has complex and steep learning curve.
The initial setup requires solid kubernetes and infrastructure knowledge.

Return on Investment

We have experienced positive ROI from quick and effective deployment of containerized applications.

Other Software Used

HubSpot CRM, ClickUp, Grammarly

Abdul Khan View profile

Tech Lead - Linux and Microservices in Information Technology at Rockwool North America (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as a container platform to deploy edge applications in a manufacturing, air-gapped environment. OpenShift addresses business requirements where devices, datalake and operations on the edge need a consolidated platform. Creating expensive virtual machine clusters are archaic and this is where OpenShift helps by empowering our developers to deploy applications straight to the edge. Another crucial requirement was having a platform that was compatible with our chosen Identity management platform - CyberArk. With Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, we can ensure that user authentication and management to pods and applications can be safely handled in conjunction with CyberArk.

Pros

Container Platform for developers to test, update, deploy and bring an application from development to production
Provides a single platform natively in cloud and in on-prem. It's a perfect fit for Hybrid organizations like ours. ARO is a great asset and so is deploying Red Hat OpenShift on-prem in virtual instances
Highly dependent platform built on Red Hat Linux OS which helps on saving costs
Provide an orchestration, visualization and monitoring layer for container workloads all built-in part of the platform

Cons

Collaboration with on-prem specialiszed vendors like VMware, MS Hyper-V perhaps?
Be more open to using other container registry platforms in demos like Container Registry in Azure and Google Artifact Registry in the Cloud
Documentation is hidden behind a Training Subscription.

Return on Investment

Less time to market a application
Shifting from a VM type workload environment to an abstracted code running in container model
A great value add for native cloud administrative team to realize that one management platform is needed for environment where workloads can run in a hybrid scenario and the need to flexibly migrate is needed.

Alternatives Considered

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Google Kubernetes Engine

Other Software Used

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker

Jeff Selover

Infrastructure Engineer in Engineering at NC State Employees Credit Union (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use it for deploying container based applications and developing new applications

Pros

CI/CD all in one platform
full featured UI
Customization with declarative configurations

Cons

More extensive configuration examples in documentation
better ways to embed CLIs into web console
more ways to interrogate helm charts and repos in UI

Return on Investment

Currently we are at initial stages so we have a lot of return on investment.

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

Lukas Vacula

IP Systems Engineer I in Engineering at Telesystem (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are migrating many of our legacy VMs to containers, and OpenShift makes it easy to do so. The automated container creation and deployment makes updates a lot easier, and being based on Kubernetes makes it easy to find documentation. We currently only have a small number of VMs migrated to containers, but we are looking to switch as many as we can over the next year.

Pros

High availability
Easy deployments of apps
Good documentation

Cons

Complexity of the overall product
Management of service accounts and roles
Moving things between namespaces

Return on Investment

Cost savings compared to VMware (when used alongside OpenShift Virtualization)
Less downtime
Better security through RBAC and service accounts

Other Software Used

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

SUSE Rancher

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Tanzu Application Platform

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