Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 9
Author: Enrique Verdes

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a consultant, my role is to help our customers get the most from the solutions we offer. We use Red Hat OpenShift to help our clients develop their business applications in a more agile way, reducing development times, increasing the scalability of solutions, in an environment that favors team productivity. As service providers, we also benefit from being able to quickly provide our customers with a complete platform for their containerized workloads, which offers an easy-to-use interface. Installation is simple and fast, and the use of operators allows you to quickly add functionality. Above all, we trust Red Hat to provide quality content, and with an excellent level of support.

Pros and Cons

The isolation of projects with RBAC is great to give different teams the resources they need without disrupting other teams.
Automation with operators is great as it simplifies tasks that required a lot of work, or the deployment and maintenance of applications and tools.
The way you can easily scale up or down automatically, at the pod, but also at the node level.

With operators, find the right CRD to edit when you need changes or review something, can be difficult.
Sometimes you need to view an objects yaml file to check the status of a project or object.
Alerts sometimes are a bit obscure, and there's is no information on pod or node involved.

Alternatives Considered

VMware Tanzu

Not so complete a Paas as Red Hat Openshift. Its main advantage is being integrated with VCenter, so for System Administrators might be a better solution, but not so friendly for developers, and you need more work to include metrics, log collection and other features openshift has out of the box.

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

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), 3scale API Management Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

In my vision, OpenShift main focus is developer productivity, and out of the box is packed with a lot of features that, if you want to add to kubernetes, means a lot of work. So if you want to provide a very friendly environment to your developers, without spending lots of time and effort, OpenShift is the way to go, coupled with the support of Red Hat which adds a lot of value. If you want more control over your platform, and more customization, OpenShift might not be the best choice.

A developer friendly PaaS.

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Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift