Red Hat OpenShift

Score9.2 out of 10

533 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Scalability
Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand
Category average: 8.2
Development environment creation
Ease of creating new development environments
Category average: 8.1
Platform access control
Rules controlling what data different user categories can access
Category average: 7.7

Platform management overhead
Resources required to keep platform up and running
Category average: 7.5
Issue monitoring and notification
Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems
Category average: 7.2
Issue recovery
Ease of recovery from problem state
Category average: 7.1

Luis Venegas

Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at Market Corp (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

consolidation of VMs and containers. Working on added more Horizontal Scaling solutions. Working on also being able to migrate between cloud and on-prem datacenters.

Pros

Handles Horizontal Scaling
Template Library seems to always work
ability to use AD sync so that I don't need to put roles and permissions in Red Hat OpenShift

Cons

Would like to be able to use the Virtualization without the need of having baremetals
I don't like the tab for Virtualization and Containerization switch.

Return on Investment

I think it's much cheaper than just plain EKS within Azure
When fully ran as it should the time saved is unmatched when it comes to downtimes and change control

Alternatives Considered

SUSE Rancher, Portainer and Docker

Marc Patton

Sr Enterprise System Admin in Information Technology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OpenShift is used as a platform to deploy applications. We manage multiple clusters across data centers, manage those clusters with ACM, and use ACS for security oversight. We also use it to host Quay and OpenShift Data Foundation. OpenShift facilitates rapid application deployment and upgrades, without the overhead of manually installing and configuring Kubernetes.

Pros

Upgrades are generally simple.
It is very much automation-first.
The GUI is actually pleasant to use.

Cons

I'd like more streamlined documentation. How-tos of common day 2 tasks would be welcome. (Could be I'm bad and finding them.)
Better compatibility matrix for some operators. I had an update break my storage (Portworx) operator. It wasn't pleasant.

Return on Investment

App upgrades are almost instantaneous. I don't have hard numbers, but instead of taking down the application, re-installing software, and restarting the app, it's `helm upgrade...`.
Managing OpenShift requires specialized knowledge and skills on our team. That's true of any technology, but troubleshooting this platform in particular seems to require a level of comfort with multiple layers of a technology stack.

Alternatives Considered

Tanzu Application Platform, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Other Software Used

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Satellite

Victor Williams

Linux Administrator in Information Technology at Blue Cross from Blue Shield of Alabama (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Red Hat OpenShift is our main platform for Container environments. The need for us to move to a start development in the container space facilitated our move to Red Hat OpenShift. That move was not an easy one since we are not setup with the Dev./Ops mindset. Red Hat helped us on this journey.

Pros

Being platform agnostic
Innovation
Solid support

Cons

Product upgrade cycles
Documentation
Product focus

Return on Investment

Upgrades require a ton of planning and don't always go well
Documentation for OCP (OpenShift Container Platform) tasks are not always a comprehensive as they should be. This eats in to the time it takes to configure or upgrade the product
If you are new to containers then OCP is the right place to start for it's ease of use.

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Edson Artiga

Architect in Information Technology at REDSOFT (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Simplifed the migration to microservices, currently we have a lot of monholitics and platforms that is legacy with OpenShift and stack we finally have a resilient and working ready production platform, also with OpenShift Plus, we handed another key factor that was the high Availability, that was key factor to choose.

Pros

/migration to microservices
High availbility
Easy to use

Cons

Accelerators, that could be build some scenarios
Subscription that add developer suite in pack with Red Hat OpenShift

Return on Investment

Better development time
Easy to move between enviroments

Kenny Long

Principal Engineer in Information Technology at St Jude ALSAC (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Building large, scalable applications. We have about 200 services that run in containers. We run all our container workloads on OpenShift. We have OpenShift on prem as well as OpenShift on AWS. We use Argo CD with OpenShift.

Pros

Container management
Allows most devs to work in Portal not so much yaml
Integration with many great tools like Argo

Cons

More out of the box monitoring and alerts

Return on Investment

We are able to consistently build robust scalable applications
We are a seasonable business so having the dynamic scaling is paramount

Other Software Used

Salesforce CRM Analytics

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

SUSE Rancher

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Tanzu Application Platform

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Scalability

Development environment creation

Platform access control

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Platform management overhead

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

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