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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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- Upgrades and platform fixes (83)7.878%
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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!
In our organization, we have thousands of microservices that were deployed on Kubernetes. The management of thousands of services was becoming very difficult so we decided to switch to Red Hat OpenShift.We use Red Hat OpenShift for the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure. With Red Hat OpenShift, we have an enterprise-grade platform, simplified management, and comprehensive support. In addition, we are able to run Kubernetes workloads in Red Hat OpenShift.
- 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.
February 26, 2024
Open shift container platform (self managed) Review
So my team with the automation team assists what we call the portal team in maintaining their OpenShift environment, their deployments, and their backups, as well as maintaining our Ansible a p platform on OpenShift, running an operator. So my team and I are doing most of the heavy lifting on the OpenShift side for what we call the Bell Self-serve portal.
- 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 13, 2024
Eases app development and deployments.
Red Hat OpenShift helped us upgrade some of the legacy internal applications used across a particular team in one geo location. These apps were run from virtual/remote environments, using Red Hat OpenShift we are now able to move these to the cloud service. It improved the scalability of the applications and now we are able to use the same application across various teams seamlessly.
- 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
February 06, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift opens windows to opportunities and flexibility
We leverage Red Hat OpenShift to have agility, flexibility, security and speed in deploying and scaling applications in a hybrid cloud and on premise ecosystem.
- 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
I use Red Hat OpenShift to manage and deploy containerized applications. With Red Hat OpenShift, it's easy to orchestrate and automate the deployment, scaling them horizontally. This addresses business problems such as ensuring high availability, scalability, and ease of maintenance for our IT infrastructure. In my case, I can easily deploy applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure complexities.
- 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
A complete PaaS solution for private cloud environments
Red Hat OpenShift is a complete PaaS solution for developers as well as for deployment & configuration engineers who manage & create the underlying infrastructure for cloud-native applications. My use case is to host containerized RAN applications of mobile operators over EDGE servers in a relatively less resource-intensive infrastructure. Lifecycle management of the application, i.e., the CNFs in the case of Telcos, is relatively easy with Red Hat OpenShift.
- 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.
We use it in our company to make our applications work better, and it can ensure the smooth running of the applications. Additionally, it also helps in better organization by enhancing efficiency and increasing the security aspect, and I can say it is more like a background hero who works in silence to make everything work better.
- 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.
My team and I use Red Hat OpenShift primary for our CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment) pipeline, along with using it for database analytics. If our databases' threads experience starvation, Red Hat is one of the tools we mainly use to analyze the data in order to search for potential root causes.
- 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.
June 18, 2023
Robust Features and Enterprise Support.
We use Red Hat OpenShift for deploying our microservices applications. This integration allows us to easily manage our containers and orchestrate application deployments with ease. The user interface is intuitive and provides a comprehensive view of our applications, clusters, and resources, making it simple to monitor and manage our deployments.
- Container Orchestration.
- App scalability.
- Security and Compliance.
- Initial setup of the cluster.
- Streamlining CI/CD Integration.
- Resource Management.
June 07, 2023
A developer friendly PaaS.
As a consultant, my role is to help our customers get the most from the solutions we offer. We use Red Hat OpenShift to help our clients develop their business applications in a more agile way, reducing development times, increasing the scalability of solutions, in an environment that favors team productivity. As service providers, we also benefit from being able to quickly provide our customers with a complete platform for their containerized workloads, which offers an easy-to-use interface. Installation is simple and fast, and the use of operators allows you to quickly add functionality. Above all, we trust Red Hat to provide quality content, and with an excellent level of support.
- 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.
We have been building a platform to be consumed by multiple teams via self-service onboarding process. The stress is on providing
multi-tenancy, separation of duties, and security, as well as support of regional DR scenario for various applications using persistent data. The goal is making OpenShift the standard platform to run containerized workloads and potentially standardize upon it and eliminate other k8s based solutions that unfortunately still exist in the enterprise
multi-tenancy, separation of duties, and security, as well as support of regional DR scenario for various applications using persistent data. The goal is making OpenShift the standard platform to run containerized workloads and potentially standardize upon it and eliminate other k8s based solutions that unfortunately still exist in the enterprise
- 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 02, 2023
Forward support model
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
The digital services of the operating system is scalable.The Linux allows to deploy all types of apps and infra easily without any faults.mainly Linux 7 and used in critical environment.and is used in multiple applications likely would be Java and web servers.and it mainly used to run business process workloads and to develop on making highly reliable configurations by using large scale databases for customers.
- Numerous wide range of apps
- Updates
- Server management
- Security patches
- Cpu management
- Support
- Command changes
- Installation
May 24, 2023
OpenShift for the Enterprise K8s solution Win!
We use OpenShift to containerize over 11 Lines of business with approximately 127 unique applications.
- Container workload logical separation with projects and networking.
- Integrate easily into the NASA Identity Management solution.
- Makes managing Enterprise Kubernetes easy for a small Operations team.
- Would love to see easier use of OpenShift developer tools.
- I would like to see better error logs with respect to issues that directly impact the User log. For example, we lost DNS and we were unable to log into the UI. It took some digging to relate the error to the loss of DNS.
May 24, 2023
Open for Shifting Installation
We are just starting our journey with containers. We currently are trying to move all our DevOps tools to containers. Once we have our self-hosted dev ops tools on Red Hat OpenShift, we can upgrade them easily. This is really difficult with our dev ops tools sitting on VMs. In addition, we would be able to retire our VMs and use less resources.
For developers, we are working on creating a pipeline to build and deploy python applications. We currently have 4 python applications. They are using source to image and works with few issues. We do not have any automation at this time. Going to try to automate as soon as possible.
For developers, we are working on creating a pipeline to build and deploy python applications. We currently have 4 python applications. They are using source to image and works with few issues. We do not have any automation at this time. Going to try to automate as soon as possible.
- It's very easy to set up source to image for a project from git repository.
- The oc and odo command line tools are easy to install on Windows.
- Overall context help is available on most screens.
- User interface is a bit hard to understand for a novice
- Provide an ai search. It's annoying to dig through many menu items to get what I'm looking for.
Our developers were very anxious to containerize their applications. We deploy, maintain, and support end users on Openshift.
- Horizontally scale pods for high availability.
- Simplify upgrades.
- Maintain availability of applications.
- On-prem automation of scalability.
- Simplify integration of metrics collected to better inform admins.
May 24, 2023
OpenShift PLATFORM LARGE SCALE IMPLEMENTATION
We leveraged OpenShift container platform to migrate a huge monolith architecture to to container architecture using OpenShift container platform. This allowed to improving system agility and reduce time to market, improve the performance and reduce overall cost of ownership
- SCALABILITY - AUTO SCALE IN AND SCALE OUT
- MONITORING
- SCALE OUT
May 24, 2023
Review of OCP
We use OpenShift (OCP) to host a number of user facing applications that support the ability to rapidly deploy virtual range environment for testing and training. OCP specifically hosts the pods that comprise these applications to include a portal, chat, lobby, and dashboard. OCP allows us to orchestrate the containers (we have upwards of 150 containers that comprise the user facing portion of our platform) in a way that embeds many non-K8 native features, such as network policies and basic security features (such as root-less containers.)
- Native integration of security features such as network policies and root-less deployments
- Centralized dashboards for management of the cluster, namespaces, and pods
- Log aggregation of cluster resources and deployments
- Relatively stable after cluster is deployed
- LDAP integration needs a lot more polishing; getting the LDAP sync operator to function properly turned into a lot larger of an effort than I'd like to see. To date, it also does not appear to support LDAPS
- Improved management of cluster-level resources; specifically certificates for the cluster. The industry is moving away from wildcard certificates and long term client (non-CA) certificates. Changing certificates and updating certificate trusts is extremely difficult and time consuming.
- Deterministic health monitoring is another feature that I think can be improved. While OCP is better than a bare-metal K8s deployment, we've had multiple master (infrastructure) nodes that go into a degraded state, with no clear indiction of the root cause. Working with RH support did not yield any answers, and resulted in re-deployment of the nodes to get the cluster healthy again.
May 24, 2023
OpenShift partners
Providing support for customer deployments on Kubernetes.
- CICD
- User Interface for K8s
- Comes with good standard tools
- Dynamic mounting of volumes
- Integration with Secret Stores
May 23, 2023
Red Hat OpenShift enables fast-paced DevOps
We are using Red Hat OpenShift to build a service oriented architecture to support our business-units and enable developers to build cloud-native applications.
We are running Red Hat OpenShift in a hybrid approach and are utilizing both onpremises Workloads and fully managed clusters on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, thereby enabling all possible use cases in our company.
We are running Red Hat OpenShift in a hybrid approach and are utilizing both onpremises Workloads and fully managed clusters on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, thereby enabling all possible use cases in our company.
- Cloud native CI/CD using Tekton
- Excellent developer experience
- Security, opinionation regarding specific features
- "Too many approaches" in some cases - we'd like to use CASC, Onboarding pages in the web console are somewhat steering the users to a UI approach, which can be counterintuitive and overwhelm them
- Customization of the web console; customizing menus can be counterintuitive for users
May 23, 2023
Good decision !!!
we use it in our financial services we have a network of 500 different locations and work on financial services like transfers, atm. western union, we pay bills and we collect money for different purposes. OpenShift helps us with our deploys on the cloud.
- deploy
- cloud
- kubernettes
- user experience
May 23, 2023
How to deploy a review
We deploy ocp cluster based on clients needs. Most likely for government but also ecommerce and other institutions. Some challenges that we face are related to interconnection with other products of their own, for example using f5 big IP as an ingress controller for the cluster. Red Hat OpenShift is a ready to use product in terms of company needs, user management, and rbac, for example.
- Managing users and permissions
- Integrations with third parties
- Documentation and support
- Easy to scale
- Tips of how to setup logging on new clusters
We use it as a DevOps platform enabler. Also we have built a sort of Internal developer platform based on Red Hat OpenShift. Our customers use Red Hat OpenShift for developing and deploying several production workloads.
- Platform self management thanks to operators
- Good user consoles for management
- The use of cluster operators could be a bit overwhelming for some activities, so, more flexibility could be useful. I know we can disable operators, but a sort of switch button for operators would be nice.
February 08, 2022
OpenShift Review
As a Red Hat Partner we use OpenShift to help our customers to include it in their projects as the main platform for running workloads. Most of the business problems that they solve are regarding agility for deployment and managing scalability for better Customer Experience, better performance and easy rollout. Another business problems that some custormers face that solve with openshift is the portability either from infrastructure or from environments.
- Compatibility with most of the infrastructure providers (public or private clouds) and the installations methods
- User Exprience in the console and the integration between components
- The management of operators
- The separation on Dev Experience and Admin Experience in the console
- The observability stack still looks like it's separated from the rest of the console. Need to be more integrated like providing a feature that will make "easy" todo customize some dashboards
- The migration between versions in clusters that include a lot of operators sometimes is really risky because of the versions compatilbility
September 28, 2021
Red Hat OpenShift: For easy Container Orchestration
Red Hat OpenShift is being used by our teams for moving on-premise web applications to the cloud using containerization. We started using containers with the Red Hat OpenShift platform. It provides a feature-rich environment. It provides features like load balancing, auto restart, monitoring, and security. It was easily adopted by our new team members.
- Out of the box package of tools and services for DevSecOps practices.
- Possibility to start small and then scale up.
- Very nice user interface.
- There should be a proper way to manage and view logs which will reduce overhead.
- Community support can be better.
- Documentation can be improved with best practices.
September 22, 2021
Red Hat OpenShift - The Safe Way
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift is currently being used in the application and systems development area, our organization is dedicated to something other than software development, so it would be very difficult to expand the use of Red Hat OpenShift throughout the organization.
- it has a great user-friendly interface
- guaranteed scalability and flexibility
- having the Git repositories is great
- unexpected crashes that require a restart
- poor accessibility to log records
- technical support could be improved