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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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- Scalability (90)8.787%
- Platform access control (84)8.484%
- Upgrades and platform fixes (83)7.878%
- Platform management overhead (82)7.373%
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Keeping it Modernized - Red Hat OpenShift Review from a Systems Analyst
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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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As an enterprise organization with mission-critical applications - Red Hat OCP helps my organization - build, deploy, operate, maintain, and integrate containerized applications that are secure, scalable, and stable - across multiple platforms. Red Hat OpenShift helps to build native and containerized cloud applications quickly to react to market forces, capitalize on market opportunities, and innovate to market-changing trends. OpenShift helps to application development time, time to value, and market with safer applications, stabler, and more secure. At the same time - the deployed applications are consistent across on-prem or in public clouds or private data centers - in physical or virtual environments. OpenShift can also be used simultaneously - on legacy applications to modernize and deploy anywhere or everywhere, including at the edges or on factory/shop floors.
- 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.
90%
9.0
- Speed to value and speed to market - very positive.
- Developer, Operator/Administrator, Security professional productivity - very positive.
- Enhanced visibility into cluster or multi-cluster security, management - very positive.
- Enhanced application code security - with vulnerability scanning and keeping curated images in an image registry - (supply chain integrity) - very positive.
Absolutely and positively - unambiguously and irrefutably.
CNCF Kubernetes. OpenShift builds on Kubernetes and is a complete platform. OpenShift makes use of extensions provided by Kubernetes to provide a full platform. OpenShift is 100% Kubernetes, while Kubernetes is not 100% OpenShift.
Yes
Open Source Kubernetes - CNCF managed.
- Cloud Solutions
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
- Other
Completeness of the platform - versus competing products or CNCF K8S.
I will not change my decision to select OpenShift.
I did not purchase any support as I have a network that is skilled enough not to have to purchase support.
No
N/A
- Development, Deployment, Management, Operations - containerized application usage - Super good and valuable.
- Consistency for deployments across a host of target systems.
- Automation - Ansible and Operators.
- Gaining knowledge.
- Exploiting all that the platform offers - operators, templates, policies.
We use and maintain OCP for CI/CD, and delivery of internal gov applications. We also deploy and maintain our own infrastructure applications in our OCP clusters.
- Build processes are quicker, so our app devs can expedite application deployment.
- Openshift serves as a great environment for collaboration and testing applications, prior to Production deployment.
- Upgrades on OCPv4.X are easy, quick, and seamless.
- Redhat constantly adds new feature sets on a regular basis.
- Certificate management and rotation could be more definitive, i.e., which certificates expire every 1 year, as opposed to every 2 years.
- Sometimes, rarely at best, we need to cycle our Thanos-querier pods due to an alert target firing in the alert manager.
- Early warning, pertaining to control plane issues, ie ETCD slowness, due to HUGE workloads. We do get alerts, but usually after the fact.
98.18181818181819%
9.8
- We were able to decommission many VMs in our data center, once our application developers migrated their internal application workloads to OCP. This saved overhead, as per server administration.
- Our infrastructure management team has been able to work with more agility to support our developers.
- With the OCP platform, groups and namespace separation provide more security between applications and lines of business.
- Collaboration is more of a reality due to the DevOps philosophy, which OCP reinforces.
Openshift is less complex as far as implementation and deployment. Also, better support with RedHat.
30
System administrators, application developers, infrastructure management.
2
Knowledge of runtimes that support containerization, and application development/deployment. Internal networking knowledge is also needed.
- Application development and deployment.
- Continuous Integration.
- Agility, and the ability to achieve the same with a smaller workforce.
- In our production OCP environment, our applications run consistently for long periods of time without disruptions.
- A replacement for applications running on stand-alone VMs.
- Training and knowledge transfers on how runtime, orchestration tools, and containerization works.
- We don't have any new ways to integrate OCP at this point in time.
No
- Scalability
- Ease of Use
Personally, our evaluation process was right on the money.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- No issues implementing v4.x at all.
Yes, as we are gov., we always need the highest level of vendor support.
Yes
Yes.
We tested the ETCD migration on OSEv3.X, and our cluster was dead. We worked with RHN support for nearly 20 hours straight to recover our cluster quorum with success.
- The installation of supplemental operators.
- The application build process, then deployment.
- UPGRADES!
- None, if you were unfortunate enough to have experienced OSEv3.x!
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.
81.81818181818181%
8.2
- By containerizing our application suites onto OpenShift, we have reduced our operational staff from 10 to 2.
- Tier one Trouble tickets have been reduced by 20%.
OpenShift is the clear winner. It contains all components necessary to deliver a truly Enterprise ready K8s solution and developer experience.
30
They are developers, DevSecOps, security, and business Analysts who are responsible for the Agency Platform Services, and Application portfolio.
2
Admins, developers, and Engineers.
- Application development.
- Containerizing Legacy Applications.
- Migrating applications from on-prem to the cloud.
- We have used OpenShift to fundamentally change the way in-house applications are developed and deployed.
- To provide a Cloud DR solution.
- To look at an Active/Active distributed application environment.
No
- Ease of Use
We wanted a K8s solution that made deploying and managing Kubernetes easier.
I wouldn't.
- Implemented in-house
- Third-party professional services
Red Hat
Yes
Phase 1 - implementation Phase 2 - training
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
- culture adaptation of Kubernetes
Yes, because we are a 24x7 shop and we run all Agency business applications on OpenShift. Any kind of sustained outage is simply not an option for us.
Yes
For the most part.
No.
- Identity management integration.
- Operator installation.
- Upgrades.
- None.
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.
40%
4.0
- Provides great potential to retire VMs
- Quicker turnaround to test and run upgrades
- Easy to deploy and test python and java applications
10
Currently, Red Hat OpenShift is being used for Dev Ops tools. We are starting to roll it out for other business groups. When software needs to be installed, we are trying to do containers instead of Linux distributions.
3
Right now, it's installed and we haven't set up governance and policies yet. Minimal support with wide open use right now.
- Start getting teams to think about installing images and use containers instead of VMs.
- Get developers to run apps as containers instead of VMs and processes on Bare Metal OS.
- Quick deployment and test right away even if code is not done or perfect.
- Just starting our journey. Users and developers are still somewhat confused. Working on educating and calming the anxiety of new technology.
- New software will be containerized apps.
- Less requirements for VMs and quicker turn around time.
- Developers don't need to know that app is running on a container.
- Eventually shift some apps out to the cloud when it's reasonable.
No
- Ease of Use
Teams are intimidated with new technology. Red Hat OpenShift takes a lot of the knowledge overload off initial learning. It just works and it is easy to get something up and running.
Overall, the evaluation and selection went well. Nothing significant to change.
August 15, 2019
OpenShift short review
1. I'm using OpenShift as development / testing / staging environment for almost all web projects.
2. Learning platform to cloud technologies / Computer Science / DevOps (e.g. kubernetes, minishift).
3. An experimenting / testing platform to test new services, functions, features.
4. As a showcasing platform, where staging working prototypes are presented to clients.
2. Learning platform to cloud technologies / Computer Science / DevOps (e.g. kubernetes, minishift).
3. An experimenting / testing platform to test new services, functions, features.
4. As a showcasing platform, where staging working prototypes are presented to clients.
- Integrations (github)
- Latest versions environments (python, node, etc.)
- Scalabilty and extensibility
- Compliance
- Containers
- Networking
- Maybe more python and nodejs apps.
100%
10.0
- Obvious easy deployments convinced clients in shift to cloud technologies.
- High quality standards.
- Innovative and motivational culture.
OpenShift environments has ssh access, some apps required. Better networking.
1
They represent everything related to information technology and marketing. While adopting new emerging big volumes of data it is often / always required to make statistics and analysis of that comparatively large volumes of data to reveal tendencies, patterns, anomalies; and make this data structured, boiled down to essence in the form of several statements / figures, etc. ; easily digestible for various web applications and available in various formats.
1
To support OpenShift and being responsible for OpenShift to work a typical DevOps engineer skills are required; such as:
- Computer Science knowledge
- Linux operating system knowledge
- Python / Go / Rust programming languages, bash scription
- Git and GitHub – Source code management (Version Control System)
- Docker – Software Containerization Platform
- Kubernetes – Container Orchestration tool
- Showcasing, making demos
- Experimenting with containers / clusters
- Production web applications, microservices
- Small memory footprint allowed 1 Docker container = 1 microservice.
- After showcasing, web application it can be easily replicated /scaled and prototype / draft can be stopped / deleted.
- OpenShift can be used for complex products, systems and applications that require networking, scaling, modularity.
- Open Source contributions and source of "tech inspiration" / business ideas.
No
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