Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We deploy ocp cluster based on clients needs. Most likely for government but also ecommerce and other institutions. Some challenges that we face are related to interconnection with other products of their own, for example using f5 big IP as an ingress controller for the cluster. Red Hat OpenShift is a ready to use product in terms of company needs, user management, and rbac, for example.

Pros and Cons

Managing users and permissions
Integrations with third parties
Documentation and support
Easy to scale

Tips of how to setup logging on new clusters

Return on Investment

ROI
Support high traffic loads
Scalability, widely used platform

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

The management of a cluster from a rhel instance is quite good. The support is complete for all the needed tools. I choose Red Hat OpenShift because the impact that it has is more notorious on non-IT teams across the company, like BI teams or developers without infrastructure knowledge.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Red Hat OpenShift go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat OpenShift again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Kubernetes, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), GitLab

Likelihood to Recommend

It is ready to use on companies with strict requirements related to security.
The web console provides an easy way of management, where you can onboard new admins with ease, at least for basics tasks.
It is not appropriate for small companies due the costs, maybe other alternatives are better choices in this case.

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Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift