OpenShift: the IT core of your digital transformation
Updated June 10, 2024

OpenShift: the IT core of your digital transformation

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus (self-managed)

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift is our new application platform and is the core of our digital transformation. We use it to host our integration platform. As [the] first step, we use its container orchestration capabilities. It enables us to build applications using a choice of programming languages, frameworks, and application lifecycle tools. It allowed us to switch our existing project environments from traditional virtualization to the containerized world without excessive costs.

Pros

  • Very efficient support and very active community on the internet
  • Very efficient and user-friendly UX and CLI
  • Scalable, extensible
  • Multi-platforms, multi-technologies
  • Platform management made easy
  • Very smooth learning curve

Cons

  • OS log management could be improved (log reading can be tough)
  • It's sometimes hard to follow the new features flow
  • Didn't find ways to integrate AI features easily
  • Software monitoring (the console gives very useful overviews and logs of the topology)
  • OPS and infrastructure management (scalability management, CPU and RAM configuration)
  • Modern apps lifecycle management
  • The fact that it's cloud ready
  • Improved time to market for business software
  • Platform scalability made easy
  • Easy monitoring, that means easier troubleshooting and improved software reliability
Red Hat OpenShift helped us make the devops culture adoption easier across the IT department, by making the Microservices based softwares easier to deploy, monitor and maintain.many performance and security features that were previoulsly home made are now linked to the platform features with easy to set policies. the integration of GitOps through the OpenShift source2image tool is very convenient and made deployment workflows stronger.
there's two points to consider about performance : the key is the performance of the application you deploy on OpenShift (design, development & resource constraints). then, if you properly size your OpenShift platform, you can manage your applications scalability in a very simple and intuitive way, and Openshift performs very well at that.
The other platforms are cloud based, and less relevant when you have to choose an on prem scenario. Red Hat OpenShift encapsulates Kubernetes and provides more, so that you have an all-in-one platform instead of dealing with various separate services. [Red Hat] OpenShift is cloud ready, that is very useful for the day when you'll be ready to switch to the cloud.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Red Hat OpenShift again?

Yes

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Postman, GitHub Copilot
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 Feature Ratings

Platform-as-a-Service
8.3
Ease of building user interfaces
9
Scalability
10
Platform management overhead
10
Workflow engine capability
7
Platform access control
7
Services-enabled integration
8
Development environment creation
9
Development environment replication
9
Issue monitoring and notification
7
Issue recovery
7
Upgrades and platform fixes
8

Using Red Hat OpenShift

10 - two thirds are developers that deploy, run, and scale their code, first in staging/test environments.
one of them does some R&D, studying new technologies (like GitOps, S2I...) and then presents to the team what can be useful.
the last third belongs to the ops team. they monitor the platform and manage the business applications in production environments
1 - one of the developers has been trained to master the platform so that he can help as a 1rst level support for the whole team.
we choosed someone curious about microservices architechture, and with prior knowledge about devops
  • private dev cloud environment for PoCs
  • microservices-based integration platform host
  • high-availability environment
  • high performance environment
  • on-demand application autoscaling
  • easy microservices architecture components integration (service Mesh, KeyCloak...)
  • migrate more complex business applications to OpenShift
  • use OpenShift APIManagement for exxternally exxposed APIs
  • fully implement DevSecOps deployment pipelines targeting OpenShift
OpenShift is really easy of use through its management console.

OpenShift gives a very large flexibility through many inbuilt functionalities, all gathered in the same place (it's a very convenient tool to learn DevOps technics hands on)

OpenShift is an ideal integrated development / deployment platform for containers

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