Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to streamline our deployment workflows and save time/effort. We have a limited time window to do our deployments due to the nature of our 24/7 business. Hence it's important to do it quickly and accurately the first time. OpenShift helps us with faster time to market. Standard containers help us scale based on our trading volume.

Pros and Cons

Auto scaling.
Container orchestration.
Multi cluster management.
Ease of deployment.

Support
Developer experience (installation, logs, debugging).
Cost

Return on Investment

It has helped us reduce headcount by 20% and combine various infra, support teams into SRE roles.
Faster time to market helped us reduce weekend work for developers by 50%.
Developers could deliver business goals as they didn't have to focus constantly on infra challenges.

Application Development and Delivery

We had a log of legacy applications, and we are in the midst of a multi-year effort to migrate to the cloud. OpenShift has helped us port applications over to the hybrid cloud solution - which is a requirement in our financial industry, given the data security constraints. We've been able to optimize our resources and automatically scale when trading volumes increase.

Performance

While the applications are performant, if there are any issues or we need access to logs to debug, it sometimes takes longer, and there is a learning curve involved for the support teams.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Auto Scaling and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

OpenShift is more flexible and can be deployed On-prem and on the cloud. Openshift was easier for the development teams to get up to speed and understand k8 terminology.

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

AWS Chatbot, Google Kubernetes Engine

Likelihood to Recommend

Openshift is suitable for microservices-based development environments. In our business, there are sudden peaks in the volumes of trades to be processed. Openshift is suitable as auto-scaling helps our developers focus more on business logic and worry less about infrastructure management. As a heavily regulated industry, Openshift's security features, like RBAC access control and secure containers, help us meet compliance requirements.

Good and secure Kubernetes platform.

Software Version

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift