Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 8
Author: Dushyant Pathak

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use OpenShift Fabric platform to manage hosting and deployment of our business applications. The platform handles management of environment configuration, pipelines and promotion paths of all our business applications contributing to the backbone of our trillion dollar revenue system. It is critical to our functioning and operations on technology

Pros and Cons

Management of environment configuration, provisioning of pods and secrets is done in a foolproof, standard way so that multiple teams can identify and update it with minimal upkeep
It has a large uptime ratio, meaning business applications downtime is usually not hampered
It has an efficient way of scaling up and down pods to manage traffic and bandwidth

Batch processing and streaming is not yet supported on the platform, and is supported by competitors like GCP
Database hosting is handled separately, and thus cannot be maintained from the same pod
It's not possible to create cross instance promotion paths

Return on Investment

Because of OpenShift's high uptime, there's been minimal business impact leading to thousands of dollars of revenue loss saved
The easy setup and customizable configuration has greatly eased developer productivity by over 40% dev hours saved from manually setting up pods
Secrets are securely maintained leading to regulatory compliance and saving face of the bank amidst severe data protection regulations

Application Development and Delivery

Because of OpenShift we have been able to deliver business applications at scale and managed to maintain heavy load across the platform

Performance

Red Hat has an ability to automatically scale up and down pods which helps us to manage spikes

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

monday.com, Jira Software, Atlassian Confluence, Pomofocus

Likelihood to Recommend

Most well suited for traditional hosting needs, where you need to manage configuration management, secret handling and scaling. This is more of an Iaas than a PaaS offering

Stable and scalable PaaS platform

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift