#1 most frequent
United States of America
36.7%3,896 installations of 10,628
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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Scalability
Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand
Category average: 8.3
Ease of building user interfaces
Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools
Category average: 8
Development environment creation
Ease of creating new development environments
Category average: 8.1
Areas for Improvement
Platform management overhead
Resources required to keep platform up and running
Category average: 7.7
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
Who Buys & Uses Red Hat OpenShift
#1 most frequent
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
31.6%3,358 installations of 10,627
“We use Red Hat OpenShift daily. It is our first option to go when we need to deploy microservices for any type of project.”
#2 most frequent
Information
14.8%1,575 installations of 10,627
“for virtualization and it applications, migratiing legacy applications and implementing security and hybrid Cloud environments”
#3 most frequent
Finance and Insurance
13.5%1,431 installations of 10,627
“Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat OpenShift”
#2 most frequent
India
5.9%631 installations of 10,628
#3 most frequent
Germany
5.0%531 installations of 10,628
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
Versatile platform that streamlines Kubernetes workflows
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
THE Container Platform for Large Scale Enterprises
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
Simple Review of Red Hat OpenShift OCP
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
Red Hat OpenShift
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
My review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Containers and Virtual Machine workloads. Addressed a vendor support container platform we moved from a FOSS solution.
Pros
- Operator First methodology. Operators are incredibly easy to deploy.
- Bridges the gap between containers and VMs. VMs run as pods and have a pod network by default allowing easier segmentation
- Documentation is thorough
Cons
- Cluster/Virtualization networking is dependent on YAML files. A form view option would be great for NAD and NNCP configuration that can see how your servers are configured and provide options based on that setup.
- Expanded Operator Catalog
- More documented examples for airgapped solutions
Return on Investment
- Built in monitoring has saved my team substantial time by not supplying a solution ourselves.
Alternatives Considered
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Other Software Used
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
