Openshift v4.X rave reviews compared to OpenShiftv3.x.
May 24, 2023

Openshift v4.X rave reviews compared to OpenShiftv3.x.

Dean Ferguson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (self-managed)

Modules Used

  • OpenShift API Management
  • OpenShift Data Foundation

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

We use and maintain OCP for CI/CD, and delivery of internal gov applications. We also deploy and maintain our own infrastructure applications in our OCP clusters.

Pros

  • Build processes are quicker, so our app devs can expedite application deployment.
  • Openshift serves as a great environment for collaboration and testing applications, prior to Production deployment.
  • Upgrades on OCPv4.X are easy, quick, and seamless.
  • Redhat constantly adds new feature sets on a regular basis.

Cons

  • Certificate management and rotation could be more definitive, i.e., which certificates expire every 1 year, as opposed to every 2 years.
  • Sometimes, rarely at best, we need to cycle our Thanos-querier pods due to an alert target firing in the alert manager.
  • Early warning, pertaining to control plane issues, ie ETCD slowness, due to HUGE workloads. We do get alerts, but usually after the fact.
  • We were able to decommission many VMs in our data center, once our application developers migrated their internal application workloads to OCP. This saved overhead, as per server administration.
  • Our infrastructure management team has been able to work with more agility to support our developers.
  • With the OCP platform, groups and namespace separation provide more security between applications and lines of business.
  • Collaboration is more of a reality due to the DevOps philosophy, which OCP reinforces.
Openshift is less complex as far as implementation and deployment. Also, better support with RedHat.

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

Any environment, whether cloud or on-prem data centers that have an app development team could fully utilize the OCP platform.

Red Hat OpenShift Feature Ratings

Platform-as-a-Service
9.8
Ease of building user interfaces
10
Scalability
10
Platform management overhead
10
Workflow engine capability
10
Platform access control
10
Services-enabled integration
10
Development environment creation
10
Development environment replication
10
Issue monitoring and notification
8
Issue recovery
10
Upgrades and platform fixes
10

Using Red Hat OpenShift

30 - System administrators, application developers, infrastructure management.
2 - Knowledge of runtimes that support containerization, and application development/deployment. Internal networking knowledge is also needed.
  • Application development and deployment.
  • Continuous Integration.
  • Agility, and the ability to achieve the same with a smaller workforce.
  • In our production OCP environment, our applications run consistently for long periods of time without disruptions.
  • A replacement for applications running on stand-alone VMs.
  • Training and knowledge transfers on how runtime, orchestration tools, and containerization works.
  • We don't have any new ways to integrate OCP at this point in time.
Our environment has become reliant on the OCP platform and it's associated features.

Evaluating Red Hat OpenShift and Competitors

  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
Personally, our evaluation process was right on the money.

Red Hat OpenShift Implementation

Red Hat OpenShift Support

Back in the days of OSE v3.X, we had multiple RFEs and Bugzillas filed by Redhat on our behalf. Those RFEs and Bugzillas delivered solutions to our issues at the time.
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
No escalation required
Immediate help available
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
Yes, as we are gov., we always need the highest level of vendor support.
Yes - Yes.
We tested the ETCD migration on OSEv3.X, and our cluster was dead. We worked with RHN support for nearly 20 hours straight to recover our cluster quorum with success.

Using Red Hat OpenShift

The OCPv4.X platform is pretty straightforward, from DevOps to Appdev perspectives.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Lots to learn
  • The installation of supplemental operators.
  • The application build process, then deployment.
  • UPGRADES!
  • None, if you were unfortunate enough to have experienced OSEv3.x!

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