Red Hat OpenShift Review
Updated June 06, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (self-managed)
Modules Used
- OpenShift Data Foundation
Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift
We use it as a test bed to better understand the platform to assist our customers with tech challenges. We deploy on top of VMware stack, and also a bare metal stack to have variety in our deployment methods. We then use helm charts and other operators to mimic what our customers might do. We also use this to create demos and show the possibilities.
Pros
- Great UI
- Easy to understand breadcrums
- Nice separation of projects/namespaces
Cons
- Exposing services with load balancers
- Native S3 support
- Faster time to deploy for customers
- Faster time to recover from tech hurdles
- Better understanding of OCP to help educate our customer
We don't use it to deploy, deliver or maintain. We use it as a learning tool to help educate our customers.
Cheaper, and more reliable
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
Red Hat OpenShift Feature Ratings
Using Red Hat OpenShift
4 - They are system administrators, project engineers, and project leaders. They are the deployers and evaluators and help us and our customers with their technical challenges.
2 - In our deployment and evaluation lab, we have 2 people that maintain the deployment. The two that support it have several years experience in system administration in all platforms (linux, openstack, vmware, windows, k8s, docker, podman)
- Running containers in our lab for applications
- Learning the ins and outs, how tos, troubleshooting, and resolving issues
- Having openshift integrated into our Enterprise system to include bursting to the cloud
- We are hoping to move some virtual machines over to our OCP cluster. We are very interested how this will look and what is possible
- Currently we are only running a minimal workload.
- Our single place to deploy workloads, containers and virtual machines
- Workload horizontal scaling to include all the way to the cloud
Evaluating Red Hat OpenShift and Competitors
Yes - VSphere Tanzu, and also a virtualized deployment of openshift. After having trouble maintaining the Tanzu deployment, we evaluated a virtualized deployment of openshift on our VMWare stack. This also has some problems with creating exposed servervices outside of the cluster. A bare metal deployment of openshift was our decision in the end.
- Ease of Use
We needed to feel comfortable recommending the product to teams that did not have years of container/k8s experience. Ease of deployment, maintenance, and use was a big factor in selecting the deployment method and solution. Also functionality was key, with the latest advancements of opernshiftVIRT, we are very interested in how one platform can run all our different types of workloads. Containers and Virtual Machines.
I would shorten the time it took us to move from platform to platform. But, we weren't in a rush. Our deploy, evaluate and approach worked well for our situation. Perhaps, if we knew what additional pieces we would need as we deployed apps in the openshift environment, we could have shortened our deployment window.
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