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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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Red Hat OpenShift the most mature and stable Kubernetes solution on the planet

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 5, 2025
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We use Red Hat OpenShift as a flexible MLOps platform through OpenDataHub, enabling streamlined model training, tracking, and deployment workflows. It serves as the backbone f...
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Rainer Weninger
Team Lead - Information Technology
Platform Engineer
SCCH
Red Hat OpenShift5 years of experience

OpenShift Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 3, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Primarily right now we're doing with VMs. We were a Rev customer and migrated our Rev VM workloads to OpenShift virtualization. We also have our eye on the future with contain...
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Victor Williams
Administrator - Information Technology
Linux Administrator
Blue Cross from Blue Shield of Alabama

Red Hat OpenShift review

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 22, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are a heavy consumer of Red Hat OpenShift. We use Red Hat OpenShift to host applications that do not currently use or need persistent storage. We have over 200,000 running ...
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Austin Allen
Administrator - Information Technology
Systems Engineer
paychex
Red Hat OpenShift4 years of experience

Red Hat OpenShift a great tool and an excellent experience

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 22, 2025
IncentivizedVetted Review
Hello! We use Red Hat OpenShift to containerize our applications, particularly the SaaS services we provide to our clients. Additionally, as a Red Hat partner, we are a CCSP. ...
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Cristian Bustos
Account Manager - Information Technology
BDM
ST Computacion
Red Hat OpenShift7 years of experience

Red Hat OpenShift [...]

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 21, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The Red Hat OpenShift is used to run microsservices responsible for integrating our systems around the world and our SAP. We currently have two instances of Red Hat OpenShift,...
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Victor Fim
Employee - Information Technology
Software Engineering
Vale
Red Hat OpenShift8 years of experience
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How Red Hat OpenShift Differs From Its Competitors

Efficiency

In our experience, we do not rely on the full application development lifecycle tools provided by Red Hat OpenShift, such as Pipelines, GitOps, or the Developer Hub. Our focus is primarily on research and experimentation rather than traditional application delivery. However, components like Red …
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Infrastructure

We primarily run Red Hat OpenShift on-premises to support our research infrastructure, including AI inference services, quantum simulation with IBM Qiskit, and Jupyter-based development via Red Hat OpenShift AI. While we do not use Red Hat OpenShift for traditional application delivery or …
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Efficiency

I can only speak to the virtualization piece. It is, like I said before, it is not as robust as we would like it from the previous product, but it's very good. It provides a lot more functionality than we would if we didn't have it. Our container journey is really new, so I can't really speak to …
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Infrastructure

Well, right Ansible does all of our automation, so all of our groups, our application development groups, our networking engineers, and obviously the Unix admins. We use Ansible, RHEL itself, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux runs a lot of our critical applications and that is housed in OpenShift, …
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Efficiency

I think that the platform allow us to be creative and not be stuck with owned services but at the same time we need o integrate with a another platform to have the entire environment monitored with good trace about errors and warnings. I know that the platform came with Prometheus and we can …
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Infrastructure

The Red Hat OpenShift allows us to have the same tools in different environments and this helps a lot when we need to hire and train new people. It's very helpful to also know that we can work across any cloud provider in the same way without needing new capabilities or skills. It provides us …
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Efficiency

I do not have much experience with the development side of things. I can comment that Service Mesh and OCP-V has been solid products and we are currently testing some other products that could help meet our business objectives
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Efficiency

We believe the impact is very important within our organization, given that we can manage the development cycle in a more comprehensive manner, and also, integrating Red Hat Developer Hub into the development team has allowed us to develop at a lower cost and significantly reduce delivery times.

Con…
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Infrastructure

Today we have a hybrid environment. Together with Red Hat OpenShift, we can simplify the management and administration of our infrastructure. In addition, and with the experience we have gained, we can support our clients in the container adoption and modernization process. Together with our …
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Efficiency

It is now a required part of SDLC. All mentioned components above are in a way integrated in SDLC depending on the team and team responsibilities. Having one holistic platform helps management from administrator perspectives, and helps ease of use from developer perspective. We have one place to …
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Infrastructure

Right now we mostly see hybrid approach with ACM being a cloud-first citizen, while workload clusters are depending on the customer user case, regulatory requirements and other internal policies if such workload can be run on the public cloud.
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Efficiency

It is very manageable, since it helps us understand the entire life cycle issue and the interface is very good and entertaining for the East View issue, thanks to OpenShift the entire issue of updates and other life cycle issues of our mobile app, APPservices and webapp is handled.

Es muy …
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Infrastructure

We use these tools in the productive environment in the Azure cloud, where we are very in agreement with these activities and their support, thanks to them we can have excellent management of it.

Utilizamos esta herramientas en El ambiente productivo en la nube de Azure, donde nos ponemos muy de …
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Efficiency

Pipelines ensure the streamline of the every deployment on cloud and helps in version controlling. Easy to revert the backup in case of failure. AI resolves issue efficiently and very quickly.
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Infrastructure

We previously used Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated on AWS. We managed not only worker nodes but master/infrastructure nodes. Migrating it to ROSA removed the management cost, removing master/infrastructure nodes consideration, which made us focus on application development on multiple worker nodes.
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Efficiency

Red Hat OpenShift observability has improved our visibility into our Virtualization platform. Red Hat OpenShift virtualization has reduced the overhead to manage our VM environment and streamlines our product implementation to red Hat toolsets.
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Infrastructure

We are using Red Hat OpenShift on prem only but have plans to leverage it to implement a hybrid cloud strategy for improved resiliency and DR capabilities as well as to provide a more compact and robust solution to deploy to our edge
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Efficiency

Specifically for RedHat virtualzation, we have an excellent use case on where we got OpenStack control plane running on Red Hat OpenShift, this highly improves our efficiency by combining both legacy and new workloads on the same platform, saving costs on hardware and centralizing workload …
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Efficiency

One thing I would say is that we used Red Hat Developer Studio, which resulted in faster deployment and builds of our standalone application to OpenShift. We also implemented a service mesh for all our services, which was easy to manage using OpenShift.
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Infrastructure

We had on-premises infrastructure for Openshift. We leveraged the Unified DevOps pipeline to deploy our application with automations integrations. Also we leveraged centralize management to secure and configure our application for use. Red Hat OpenShift aims to provide consistent infrastructure …
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Efficiency

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps (via ArgoCD) has significantly helped our organization deploy both infrastructure and applications in a much more rapid manner compared to previous manual efforts. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization has given us the ability to explore alternatives to VMware, which is an …
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Infrastructure

The ability to deploy the same platform with the same features and capabilities across environments both on-premises and in the public cloud has been incredibly helpful. Maintaining that consistent experience has helped keep our training requirements and associated cognitive load within acceptable …
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Efficiency

The above tools were great, but if the documentation were improved further, that would be great. Some of them don't understand, and finding proper documentation is hard for non-users of OpenShift. From the security level, the patching is good, whereas OpenShift always moves to the latest versions.
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Awards

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Video Reviews

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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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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

8.2
Avg 8.0
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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 their workloads managed or self-managed editions:


Cloud Services (Managed) 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

  • 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 Virtualization Engine: Built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS and the KVM hypervisor, this edition provides the proven virtualization functionality of Red Hat Openshift to deploy, manage, and scale virtual machines exclusively and is optimized for bare-metal servers.

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 private or public clouds, 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.

Red Hat OpenShift Features

Platform-as-a-Service Features

  • Supported: Ease of building user interfaces
  • Supported: Scalability
  • Supported: Platform management overhead
  • Supported: Workflow engine capability
  • Supported: Platform access control
  • Supported: Services-enabled integration
  • Supported: Development environment creation
  • Supported: Development environment replication
  • Supported: Issue monitoring and notification
  • Supported: Issue recovery
  • Supported: Upgrades and platform fixes

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Red Hat OpenShift Competitors

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 From Top Reviewers

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Red Hat OpenShift the most mature and stable Kubernetes solution on the planet

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 05, 2025
RW
Rainer Weninger
Platform Engineer
SCCH (Research, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
5 years of experience
Pros
  • Hosting Red Hat OpenShift AT (OpenDataHub)
  • LORA Training for Models
  • Hositng Inference Systems with MCP Connections
  • Running Development Pods for Research Projects
Cons
  • The complexity. Some errors occur of systems that cant interact with each other I even dont know run. The system is way to complex in its structure. It is not a OCP issue itself but Kubernetes. To get more adapted, it must be much more integrated and stable.
  • The UI is part of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It should also be on the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine (in a simpler way)
  • Update Process is failing way too often. There are always issues.
  • The User enforcement cant be used in our environment. We need root in pods per standard. This is quite complicated in Red Hat OpenShift.

OpenShift Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 03, 2025
VW
Victor Williams
Linux Administrator
Blue Cross from Blue Shield of Alabama (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pros
  • It's a one pane of glass, so when we have Rev only it was a hypervisor for VMs. OpenShift, you can put Ansible in it, you can hook into satellite, it can do with OpenShift AI. You can do AI models and stuff like that. So I think it's more like a Swiss Army knife rather than a fire extinguisher.
Cons
  • OpenShift virtualization has a little room for improvement. I'm coming from it as a Rev customer. There's some things in that OpenShift virtualization that were in Rev that I would like to see in OpenShift virtualization. I realized that they're chasing the VMware crowd and that's fine, but from us old Rev customers, we'd like to see some things that was in Rev around via migration and things of that nature that could be in OpenShift virtualization, I hope is being planned to be put in.

Red Hat OpenShift [...]

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 21, 2025
VF
Victor Fim
Software Engineering
Vale (Mining & Metals, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
8 years of experience
Pros
  • System Integration
  • Microssevices Management
  • Fast CI/CD Integration
Cons
  • DevOps
  • Systems Integration
  • Software development modernization

Red Hat OpenShift review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 22, 2025
AA
Austin Allen
Systems Engineer
paychex (Information Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Red Hat OpenShift
4 years of experience
Pros
  • Easily deploy Kubernetes Pods in a user friendly way
  • Great support for the product when issues arise in the environment
  • Maintenance and patching the environment is easier than ever
Cons
  • Sometimes alerting can be genetic and hard to troubleshoot, usually the alert is indirectly correlated to another issue
  • Sometimes the UI can be slow at responding to listing pods, containers, etc

Red Hat OpenShift a great tool and an excellent experience

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 22, 2025
CB
Cristian Bustos
BDM
ST Computacion (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
Red Hat OpenShift
7 years of experience
Pros
  • Containerization
  • Virtualization
  • Optimization
  • Contenerizacion
  • Virtualizacion
  • Optimizacion
Cons
  • In software development
  • infrastructure management and optimization
  • cost reduction
  • En El desarrollo de software
  • manejo y optimizacion de infraestructura
  • reduccion de costos
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