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Red Hat OpenShift

Overview

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.

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Video Reviews

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Keeping it Modernized - Red Hat OpenShift Review from a Systems Analyst
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IT Systems Engineer Gets Honest | OpenShift Review
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Thoughts from an Administrator - Red Hat OpenShift Review
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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $0.08 per hour
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Product Demos

Demo: How to try out single-node OpenShift from Red Hat

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Hands-on demo of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

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Features

Platform-as-a-Service

Platform as a Service is the set of tools and services designed to make coding and deploying applications much more efficient

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Avg 8.1
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Product Details

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 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.
Why choose Red Hat OpenShift cloud services?
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
Why choose self-managed Red Hat OpenShift?
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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Red Hat OpenShift Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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 9.1.

The most common users of Red Hat OpenShift are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Seamless Migration Process: Users have praised the effortless transition facilitated by Red Hat OpenShift when migrating from other hypervisors like Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or VMware, particularly highlighting the efficiency of offline migration without disruptions. This streamlined process has been commended for minimizing downtime and ensuring a smooth shift to the new platform.

Built-in Operators: Customers appreciate the seamless experience offered by the built-in operators within Red Hat OpenShift, emphasizing their role in simplifying tasks compared to manual configuration in Kubernetes environments. The availability of these operators significantly reduces the complexity of managing workloads and enhances overall operational efficiency.

User-Friendly Interface: Reviewers find Red Hat OpenShift's user interface impressive for its intuitive design, specifically noting the ease of navigation and functionality while working directly within a web browser. The well-organized layout and accessibility of features contribute to a positive user experience, allowing users to efficiently monitor and manage their applications with ease.

Steep Learning Curve: Users have expressed concerns about the steep learning curve associated with Red Hat OpenShift, mentioning challenges in understanding virtualization and navigating the documentation. Some users have found it challenging to grasp these concepts, hindering their initial onboarding process.

Challenging User Interface: Reviewers reported finding the user interface of Red Hat OpenShift difficult to use, particularly struggling with complex navigation within the console and encountering obstacles when trying to locate specific configuration settings. The complexity of the interface has been a recurring issue for users interacting with the platform.

Inadequate Logging System: Multiple users have highlighted issues with the logging system of Red Hat OpenShift, expressing difficulty in effectively managing and accessing log records due to shortcomings in functionality. Users have faced challenges in efficiently tracking and analyzing logs within the system, impacting their operational efficiency.

Reviews

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my OpenShift review

Rating: 6 out of 10
July 18, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
1 year of experience
Sometimes, there is too much work to do for a research project, and simpler alternatives (like slurm) are enough.

I Recommend Openshift for Container deployments

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 17, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
7 years of experience
Get Cloud capabilities at onpremise. Red Hat OpenShift can be deployed over onpremise (Virtual machines / bare metal). Applications running over OpenShift containers can be scaled based on needs. In event of application traffic surge, horizontal pod scaling would help to automatically scale application pods when traffic surges. Only catch here is Red Hat OpenShift should have sufficient worker capacity to support the scaling.

Container orchestration platform for the Enterprise

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 20, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
5 years of experience
Recommended for Enterprises looking to modernize their VM-based environments to move into the container world.
RHOS offers several different ways to build images such as build from source. Creating new environments and using one cluster for different purposes can be easy.
RHOS is not best suited for real time applications or when full hardware capabilities are needed.

Make OpenShift Container Platform Your Local Container Platform.

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 19, 2024
JJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
3 years of experience
Stateful pods and DBs can be challenging to manage in OpenShifts. Depending on the configuration, lost deployments could result in data loss. The best use case for OpenShifts is any instance where agile and quick deployments are needed. Thanks to the OCP git runner, we can implement new builds across all environments quickly.

My Experience with Red Hat OpenShift

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 15, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
1 year of experience
Red Hat OpenShift is best suited for container workloads where High Availability is of utmost importance. Between the high availability and the rolling upgrades, Red Hat OpenShift makes sense to be the top choice for those types of workloads. Red Hat OpenShift makes Kubernetes even easier to manage and administer.

Red Hat OpenShift review

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 11, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
2 years of experience
Openscap works perfectly as described and has a helpful and educational user interface. As a beginner user who independently was introduced to openscap, it was a quick and efficient learning curve.

OpenShift: the IT core of your digital transformation

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 10, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
1 year of experience
Red Hat OpenShift is the best platform for microservices-based modern apps lifecycle management and hosting. [Red Hat OpenShift] is not suited for old windows server virtualization [or if] you have legacy heavy systems. it's also a very convenient playground for developers that want to try microservices architecture features in a user friendly environment

Red Hat OpenShift

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 07, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
7 years of experience
Well suited: Micro services architecture CICD Dev/Test environments Not well suited: Small scale applications cost sensitive deployments Orgs with limited container experience

THE Container Platform for Large Scale Enterprises

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 07, 2024
AK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
1 year of experience
OpenShift is well suited to enterprise organizations that have a high availability requirement for their workloads whether it's on-prem or natively in the Cloud. The best part that is that a single container registry can be used or multiple depending on your specific use-cases. But it's very adaptable to multiple developer tools and platforms, from pipelines, to image handling.

OCP is the best

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 07, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
2 years of experience
Able to maximize the use of resources by letting OpenShift handle when, how and where to deploy applications.

A complete PaaS solution for private cloud environments

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 06, 2024
AK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
2 years of experience
Well suited for - Telco core applications (CNFs) Telco RAN applications (CNFs) Any containerized application based on microservices. Less appropriate for - VM based applications Monolithic applications Applications require no or very less updates or upgrades Applications with complex requirement of observability & user access

My first Red Hat OpenShift review

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 05, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
1 year of experience
Good support for the product, ease of use , good design for the product, simple, multiple platforms support with most of public clouds and on Prem platform. Supports single node deployment for quick start and poc. People can try stuff and then if like it move to full scale openshift cluster.

Stable and scalable PaaS platform

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 04, 2024
DP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
3 years of experience
Most well suited for traditional hosting needs, where you need to manage configuration management, secret handling and scaling. This is more of an Iaas than a PaaS offering

Good and secure Kubernetes platform.

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 03, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
2 years of experience
Openshift is suitable for microservices-based development environments. In our business, there are sudden peaks in the volumes of trades to be processed. Openshift is suitable as auto-scaling helps our developers focus more on business logic and worry less about infrastructure management. As a heavily regulated industry, Openshift's security features, like RBAC access control and secure containers, help us meet compliance requirements.

Red Hat OpenShift is Powerful

Rating: 6 out of 10
June 03, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
1 year of experience
Red Hat OpenShift is well suited for containers and container management. It makes running applications in container easier to do. There is also many development features to have an ide in your browser. What is lacking is the VMs and replacing VDI it needs more features like that.

Red Hat OpenShift review

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 21, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
8 years of experience
Red Hat OpenShift is a great teaching tool for upcoming sysadmins and developers. We have encouraged it's use in CS department in place of VMs, it would significantly more efficient for students learning development practices.

Red Hat OpenShift review

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 14, 2024
TC
Vetted Review
Red Hat OpenShift
10 years of experience
I've seen multiple universities that have quite investments in Red Hat enterprise virtualization. They don't want to go with the VMware route due to the expense. So Red Hat OpenShift virtualization is a natural fit for them in that environment. I've also seen a lot of VMware customers that are not able financially to sustain the cost increases with the product. So they're looking for an alternative. And Red Hat OpenShift virtualization fills that need.

Red Hat OpenShift review

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 14, 2024
JS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
2 years of experience
So that's been something we've worked through right as we're migrating a lot of our business applications over. We've got a wide range of them. Some of them are relatively new, we'll say the last five years. Those have migrated without too many issues. We've been able to put those over there, put them in containers and it's been good. We have a handful of applications that are very old and like pre-net old. Not that we do a lot of net development, but those are hard to move over. Right. Primarily because our infrastructure is Linux-based, so we don't have any windows there. So it's been very difficult for us to start migrating some of those right now. We're requiring those teams to upgrade to newer versions of.net before they even consider coming to us and running their workload on our platform.
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