Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 9
Author: Kadu Barral

Overall Satisfaction with OpenShift

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using OpenShift as a hybrid cloud Kubernetes platform and it enables us to build applications using any programming languages or frameworks. Our production environment is running about 4000 docker images with reliability and high scalability.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Works on a bare metal environment.
Auto route registration.

Cons

Log management.
Self-healing.

Return on Investment

Increase deliveries.
Reduce virtualization costs.

Alternatives Considered

Google Kubernetes Engine and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

We decided to use OpenShift for our on-premises environment, to deploy applications that are not able to go to the cloud.

Support Rating

Red Hat support is really useful and the documentation is rich. The community is big because the open source version, so you can find a lot of things on internet.

Key Insights

Do you think Red Hat OpenShift delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Red Hat OpenShift's feature set?

Yes

Did Red Hat OpenShift live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Red Hat OpenShift go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat OpenShift again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Red Hat OpenShift is perfect if you need to use Kubernetes on-prem, for cloud it could be costly and less effective than managed providers. If your on-premises environment is big and you don't want to pay for virtualization, it is possible to deploy OpenShift on bare metal.

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