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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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Recent Reviews

Openshift Review

8 out of 10
February 26, 2024
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Popular Features

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  • Scalability (91)
    8.6
    86%
  • Upgrades and platform fixes (84)
    8.3
    83%
  • Platform access control (85)
    7.6
    76%
  • Platform management overhead (83)
    6.7
    67%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Video Reviews

5 videos

Keeping it Modernized - Red Hat OpenShift Review from a Systems Analyst
09:19
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

7.7
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 8.6.

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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Red Hat OpenShift is well suited if organizations are looking for commercial enterprise-grade software without the overhead of managing open source. Red Hat OpenShift provides the common underlying platform (RHEL), thus reducing the overhead of managing different platforms. Red Hat OpenShift is particularly suited for beginners as it offers both web and CLI to perform various operations. It is not suited for organizations that are on a tight budget as deploying Red Hat OpenShift can be expensive.
February 26, 2024

Openshift Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've been satisfied with OpenShift and with our current use case use of just about deploying a couple tens of microservices and it's been working fine so far.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well, in our case, because I have two use cases, one is with the operator, which obviously is super easy with OpenShift because it's just click, click start aside from the issue from the operator. But that's a different interview. And the other point is for the web portal that our portal team uses, it's very easy. Two perform a task needed for them to do their deployment, their pipelines, and their daily Java.
February 26, 2024

Red Hat OpenShift Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We just recently migrated some of our first subsets of applications, two containers on OpenShift. And through the use of our good ops mechanisms and our CICD pipelines that we had leveraged on some previous modernization efforts, we were able to essentially leverage all of that work and just modify the destination to be OpenShift and it just plugged right in. And from an onboarding standpoint, that's huge because of the learning curve and some of the unknowns, that might be a problem that makes it really easy for us to leverage some of that modernization work we've already done if we're landing it on OpenShift. So as far as housing and controlling and administering containerized runtimes, OpenShift makes all that very easy.
February 26, 2024

Red Hat OpenShift Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
So when you want to move or you want to explore the container platform, I would say OpenShift is the best in the industry where you can get premium support. So it is all based on your needs if you need support is one of the important aspects if you want to put your tier-one workloads in a container platform, I would definitely recommend OpenShift. Less appropriate. With the licensing and the pricing. So if you are looking for tier-three applications, maybe.
February 26, 2024

Red Hat OpenShift Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Basically, if you want to do rapid development, that's where the product is well because there is a CICD pipeline that is well integrated. So the continuous, if you want to bring any new feature, or new release right to the market, it's very useful how you can use the OpenShift in that way. I think it still needs work on the database as I mentioned earlier, those kinds of workloads. Also the traditional workload. For example, we are now trying with mq, the middleware layer on the OpenShift. But I think still there is less flexibility, what I can say. I think that's like a stateful workload. I think that's where the challenge is.
Sarath Kumar Pujari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Red Hat OpenShift is well suited for organizations with limited IT storage/compute resources. It helps in speeding up the deployment of applications and scaling them to whatever extent needed. On the other hand we find it is a bit complex and needs some training to find out the full potential of the platform. Ramp up phase initially takes time, but once ramped up, employees typically find it easier to work with.
Bhargav VR Perepa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OpenShift is well suited - when an application needs to be deployed to multiple environments (public clouds, private data centers, hybrid environments, at the edge, or on factory floor environments), where the application needs to be running consistently, safely, securely, and in a performance manner. OpenShift shines when the application deployments need to be quick, be operated, and maintain speed and consistency (DevSecOps). OpenShift also performs very well in building cloud-native microservices architectures or modernizing legacy applications that require integrations. OpenShift may not work well when the applications are unsuitable for containerization or the skills are misaligned with cloud-native and microservices approaches.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OpenShift is suited where an on-prem Kubernetes distro is required with solid support from a well-known vendor. OpenShift could become inappropriate when the best in a technology class is needed (because RedHat mostly pushes its technology or version of technology, e.g., ISTIO, which usually has less functionality than the open-source free version) or where the license cost elevated is not sustainable.
Salah BENAMIRA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well-Suited Scenarios for Red Hat OpenShift in my compnay:
* Development of microservices-based applications
* Application Lifecycle Management
* Manageing Infrascture tasks with ease

Less appropriate Scenarios for Red Hat OpenShift in my compnay:
* Development of small applications
* a non containerized applications
Lovelee Borgohain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Building cloud-native microservices-based applications with OpenShift is quite easy. It's like having a well-oiled pipeline where coding, testing and deployment smoothly flow together. We operate across on-prem, private, and public cloud environments, and OpenShift's flexibility comes in handy. It works smoothly across these disparate platforms. OpenShift is best for cloud-native containerized applications. Porting legacy monoliths is complex and time-consuming. We tried to migrate our old CRM system to OpenShift, but it ended up being a bigger headache than it was worth.
Asad Khan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It works great for big organizations for better speed and flexibility. It's also handy if you need your apps to work smoothly on different cloud systems. But if you're a small team with a simple app, or if you don't have a lot of tech experts or a big budget, there might be simpler options that fit better. Also, if your apps don't need to change size a lot or if you're not using lots of different tech at once, a simpler tool could be easier to handle. It all depends on what your team and apps need!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The platform comes pre-packaged with a lot of features. And there are no issues with any of the features of the program. And because everything is stored on the cloud, it can also store enormous volumes of data, though the price also increases with it as the amount of data increases.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Openshift is a good Enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform, with many features like Role Based Access Control, Internal Private Registry, and Easy Integration with External Tools like GitHub, Jenkins, etc., but its installation process is a little bit complex and uncertain in some scenarios due to which sometimes it becomes challenging to onboard the platform and its management.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well-suited: I find that Red Hat is extremely well-suited when we need a solution for horizontal autoscaling. Additionally, if you are looking for container management software, I cannot think of a better one than Red Hat. Less appropriate: In my honest opinion, although Red Hat does have database monitoring functionality, there might be other functions it is better at, and database monitoring can be done elsewhere (or prioritized less).
Enrique Verdes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my vision, OpenShift main focus is developer productivity, and out of the box is packed with a lot of features that, if you want to add to kubernetes, means a lot of work. So if you want to provide a very friendly environment to your developers, without spending lots of time and effort, OpenShift is the way to go, coupled with the support of Red Hat which adds a lot of value. If you want more control over your platform, and more customization, OpenShift might not be the best choice.
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