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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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What is Red Hat OpenShift?
Red Hat® OpenShift® is a unified platform to build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale. It includes an enterprise-ready Kubernetes solution with a choice of deployment and consumption options to meet the needs of the business. OpenShift delivers a consistent experience across public cloud, on-premise, hybrid cloud, or edge architecture. It includes multiple advanced open source capabilities that are tested and integrated with the underlying certified Kubernetes environment, such as Red Hat OpenShift Serverless, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps. Red Hat OpenShift gives users the choice of running cloud services or self-managed editions:
Cloud Services Editions
Red Hat OpenShift cloud services automate the deployment and management of Red Hat OpenShift clusters, so organizations can build, deploy and scale applications quickly without having to incorporate and learn new technologies and processes, or manage integrations. It also helps users to:
Self-Managed Editions
Red Hat OpenShift self-managed editions provide more control and flexibility over OpenShift deployments. Self-managed editions allow deployment on any private or public cloud, on bare metal, or at the edge. In addition, long-term support provides flexible life cycles providing the option to choose when to upgrade to the next version of Red Hat OpenShift.
Cloud Services Editions
- Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS: A turnkey application platform that provides a managed Red Hat OpenShift service running natively on Amazon Web Services (AWS) used by organizations to increase operational efficiency, refocus on innovation, and build, deploy, and scale applications.
- Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift: Red Hat and Microsoft jointly engineer, manage, and support the platform, used by organizations to increase operational efficiency, refocus on innovation, and quickly build, deploy, and scale applications.
- Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated: A managed Red Hat OpenShift offering on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud.
- Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud: A managed Red Hat OpenShift cloud service that reduces operational complexity and helps organizations build and scale applications with the security of IBM Cloud.
Red Hat OpenShift cloud services automate the deployment and management of Red Hat OpenShift clusters, so organizations can build, deploy and scale applications quickly without having to incorporate and learn new technologies and processes, or manage integrations. It also helps users to:
- Reduce security & compliance risk through 24x7 global SRE coverage.
- Limit operational and staffing dependencies attached to particular providers.
- Reduce integration bottlenecks with repeatability and consistency for multi-cloud deployments.
Self-Managed Editions
- Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus: The recommended self-managed option that builds on the capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with a complete platform for accelerating application development and application modernization. The full portfolio includes all the features of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform along with several integration technology solutions including Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, and Red Hat Quay.
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform: A full set of operations and developer services and tools that includes everything in the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine plus additional features and services.
- Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine: An enterprise Kubernetes runtime that includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS immutable container operation system, administrator console and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
Red Hat OpenShift self-managed editions provide more control and flexibility over OpenShift deployments. Self-managed editions allow deployment on any private or public cloud, on bare metal, or at the edge. In addition, long-term support provides flexible life cycles providing the option to choose when to upgrade to the next version of Red Hat OpenShift.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
Red Hat OpenShift starts at $0.076.
Tanzu Application Platform, SUSE Rancher, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) are common alternatives for Red Hat OpenShift.
Reviewers rate Scalability highest, with a score of 8.7.
The most common users of Red Hat OpenShift are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 17, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift: One of the Best Cloud Platforms!
- Red Hat OpenShift is well-suited for complex requirements.
- Management of Red Hat OpenShift is easy when compared to Kubernetes.
- Kubernetes workloads can be easily migrated over to Red Hat OpenShift.
- Red Hat OpenShift has integrated developer tools and enhanced security.
- The dashboard can be a bit more user-friendly.
- Completed jobs continue to show up in the dashboard.
- There should be an option to filter out the completed BuildConfigs.
March 05, 2024
Big banking OCP installation.
- Compliance management.
- Automation environment.
- Registry
- Automation platform.
- Versioning control.
- Product support.
February 26, 2024
Openshift Review
- Ease of management on a day-to-day basis, both using the web console and the CLI tool.
- Network of observability, so having one single screen to see to have some network-related metrics for the pod levels. Also at the cluster itself level and more importantly is ease of use for troubleshooting when there's any timeout. This has been the single kind of issue I've been facing for my three years of experience with OpenShift and it hasn't been an easy task for such troubleshooting.
February 26, 2024
Open shift container platform (self managed) Review
- Obviously, it does container orchestration very well because it's the main purpose of the product. Creating routes has been very easy with the product, creating accessible routes, managing quotas, managing our workspace and our workload has been very efficient with this as well as managing our horizontal scalability.
- Sometimes the error messages are very vague when they happen and we have to dig in a lot longer than we should have just to find the exact error message in some lug. Whereas it could have been clear in the events, I assume. Aside from that, that's pretty much what I can think of off the top of my head.
February 26, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
- Scales very well.
- It provides you with a landing pad to modernize what you have in a phased approach so you don't have to do it all at once, right? You can take small pieces of work and implement those on OpenShift over time. It enables us to be able to implement things like GI ops configuration as a service, and infrastructure as a service using the tools that are native to OpenShift, which gives us far greater reliability and consistency as far as monitoring for any kind of drift and configuration or unauthorized changes. So it pretty much gives us a lot of visibility on things that are otherwise relatively difficult to see using the old means of doing what we do. So it provides us with a modern set of tools to accomplish all those objectives.
- I think the easiest answer to that question is OpenShift as a platform. I don't know that I would necessarily say that I have any real complaints. However, as far as the architecture that it sits on to run, it's still very much so focused on X86-based computing architecture. And in our case, we're using both X 86 computing architecture and S3 90 computing architecture on the mainframe. And OpenShift as a whole in general is slightly slower and behind pace as far as making things compatible or workable on S3 90 as opposed to X 86. So that's kind of true of the entire Kubernetes marketplace in general. So it's not just an OpenShift problem, but it's still a pain point for us because it puts us in a position where we're having to wait on things on the one hand that we might not have to wait on for the other computer architectures. So to have them moving in parallel would be nice.
February 26, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
- Mainly with right-sizing the applications, making the applications brought into this microservice architecture. So these are the ones that we noticed with the applications like we have migrated the applications from monolith to microservices and they're doing extremely well.
- I would say if OpenShift can provide us more insight into capacity management and maybe add a little bit of chargeback thing, so that will be more into the insight and observability. That's what we will need from a management perspective.
February 26, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
- I'll say the first one is obviously high availability, right? Because now application earlier, if you take any application that used to run WebSphere legacy platform, we'll have a side or B side. And that was not a true failover. But now with OpenShift we can add multiple ports, you can have four ports or eight ports, 10 ports how your business or application needs. So it's very what you call no downtime and literally there is no downtime.
- Another example you can say the patching now we have to patch due to compliance every month. So we do rolling updates so there is no downtime so I'll say highly available, scalable, another security is another great feature that we can use core os. So those are the key features
- So one thing I can think of is the cloud where we are going because now we are seeing workload going to AWS or Azure. I think there'll be a lot of integration needed from the OpenShift, how we can leverage more cloud services as the industry is moving toward that direction.
- One thing I can definitely mention, we are trying to do a database. First I'll start with the Redis in-memory database. So we had that installed on the openshift. But the way Redis in-memory works is they have their own DNS. And now with the state full set it was challenging when we patched and it did not work. We had to do a manual intervention. So those are challenges especially when you have state full workload like databases, how do you scale those, right? So those are big challenges that we can overcome.
February 13, 2024
Eases app development and deployments.
- Usage of the Cloudservice
- Simplified and readily available APIs which improves the development speeds
- Remote debugging capabilities which again helps finding issues faster
- High scalability
- Complex due to several different components. Often we need employees to be trained to make full use of the Red Hat OpenShift platform capabilities. Training employees again slow down development/increase costs.
- Expensive as compared to other cloud based platforms like Kubernetes
- Single point and centralized visibility for hybrid or multi cloud deployments.
- Multi-cloud and multi-cluster security across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.
- Enhanced security - with security contexts and selinux hardening.
- Enhanced security to application code - container registry and security/vulnerability scanning capabilities.
- Knowledge diffusion with less friction since OpenShift skills are non-trivial and demanding.
- Improved support for issues arising when using OpenShift.
- Improved samples catalog - examples, samples and tutorial code.
- Workload management.
- Security
- Simplicity of deployment with an extensive helm char catalog.
- Vendor lock-in.
- Maintenance cost.
- Short ttl of the releases.
February 06, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift opens windows to opportunities and flexibility
- Provides enterprise grade security in user friendly way
- includes pre-designed templates and an intuitive interface that is well received and furthermore customizable
- Provides access to rich value adding network of partners and open source technologies.
- Developers that prefer more structure may prefer other technologies
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)
- A user-friendly Web console
- Multi-Tenancy (multi projects)
- Commercial support
- Integration with Non-Red Hat Technologies
- Cost Considerations
- Resource Consumption
January 30, 2024
RedHat OpenShift for future-proof agility and rapid growth.
- It integrates well with popular cloud providers (CSPs) like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, adding flexibility and choice for cloud deployments. OpenShift provides centralized ingress control for managing how external traffic reaches applications running across multiple clusters and simplifies security management.
- OpenShift's S2I capability builds container images directly from source code and eliminates the need for manual configuration to provide consistency across deployments. Developers can push code changes and deploy updates to production environments to reduce manual work and accelerate release cycles.
- We take advantage of OpenShift's hybrid cloud capabilities. We run ML workloads on both on-prem infrastructure and public cloud platforms, depending on resource needs and cost considerations.
- OpenShift isn't exactly beginner-friendly. The initial setup is a bit challenging, and navigating the console feels like deciphering hieroglyphics for someone new to Kubernetes.
- Juggling multiple OpenShift clusters across different environments is still a clunky experience. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management helps, but it adds another layer of complexity to an already intricate system.
- While OpenShift integrates with popular CI/CD tools, the experience isn't always smooth. Integrating GitOps workflows directly into OpenShift would make deployments even more easy and flexible.
January 30, 2024
A complete PaaS solution for private cloud environments
- LCM of CNFs
- Security of the underlying environment
- Modular Support of desired operators for Telco applications
- Supporting all Storage & Networking solutions in the form of CSIs & CNIs
- Initial deployment of the cluster
- RBAC & User management
- Lack of In-built observability solutions
- Lack of In-built performance monitoring
January 30, 2024
Great investment of time and effort but results are worth it.
- Enhancing the security of the system.
- Helps in the organization to a large extent.
- Helps in running applications with ease and smoothly.
- It could do better in the user interface, as it seems a bit complex to some of my colleagues.
- Integration with other tools needs more work.
- I do feel that automated enhancement features cause unnecessary changes.
January 30, 2024
Using Openshift in Production.
- RBAC
- Private Registry.
- Integration with Third Party Tools.
- Reduce complexity In Openshift Configuration.
- Authentication using GitHub.
- Optimised Infrastructure Need to setup.
January 29, 2024
Stable and scalable PaaS platform
- Management of environment configuration, provisioning of pods and secrets is done in a foolproof, standard way so that multiple teams can identify and update it with minimal upkeep
- It has a large uptime ratio, meaning business applications downtime is usually not hampered
- It has an efficient way of scaling up and down pods to manage traffic and bandwidth
- Batch processing and streaming is not yet supported on the platform, and is supported by competitors like GCP
- Database hosting is handled separately, and thus cannot be maintained from the same pod
- It's not possible to create cross instance promotion paths
January 29, 2024
Good and secure Kubernetes platform.
- Auto scaling.
- Container orchestration.
- Multi cluster management.
- Ease of deployment.
- Support
- Developer experience (installation, logs, debugging).
- Cost
- It's incredibly easy to manage the containers and potential issues that may happen within those containers.
- The Graphic User Interface (GUI) is great, so much so that I don't find myself using CLI (Command Line Interface) much.
- It has Kubernetes functionality built in.
- I find that, specifically, Secret Management is rather tricky, given the way the interface is designed.
- I wish there were more documentation/built-in modules around the overall usage/use cases of Red Hat. If I were to start from the beginning, I would most likely spend a lot of time trying to learn how to use Red Hat effectively.
- The monitoring functionality could be improved (timing of how it's displayed and details of what is actually happening). I find myself digging after the monitor triggers an alert vs seeing what the issue is at a glance.
- Deployment streamlining.
- Multi-cloud and hybrid support.
- Easy scaling of workloads.
- Excellent support.
- Container registry integration.
- Possible service mesh integration.
- Ease of app update deployments.
- Better resource monitoring.
June 18, 2023
Robust Features and Enterprise Support.
- Container Orchestration.
- App scalability.
- Security and Compliance.
- Initial setup of the cluster.
- Streamlining CI/CD Integration.
- Resource Management.
June 15, 2023
Red Hat OpenShift is here to stay
- Quay - security scanning
- Quay - additional container registry
- Single Node Openshift - well done for demo purposes, customized ISO amazingly done
- Red Hat OpenShift Operators - perfectly done to let other parties write additional functionality
- documentation on some quay parts
June 07, 2023
A developer friendly PaaS.
- The isolation of projects with RBAC is great to give different teams the resources they need without disrupting other teams.
- Automation with operators is great as it simplifies tasks that required a lot of work, or the deployment and maintenance of applications and tools.
- The way you can easily scale up or down automatically, at the pod, but also at the node level.
- With operators, find the right CRD to edit when you need changes or review something, can be difficult.
- Sometimes you need to view an objects yaml file to check the status of a project or object.
- Alerts sometimes are a bit obscure, and there's is no information on pod or node involved.
- K8s related tooling
- Security
- Multi-cluster management
- Persistent data replication
- The embedded ODF cluster solution is limited to a single storage class which does not allow to have different tiers of storage dedicated to specific workloads
- Fixed size of the underlying disk size that also forces the user to use the same disk size for the further storage scale out process
June 06, 2023
My Experience with Red Hat OpenShift.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Flexibility
- Stability
- Monitoring
- Easy to customize.
- Easy to migrate.
- More depth in the documentation of the product is needed.
- To beginners, we usually have a hard time teaching them to use it.