My first Red Hat OpenShift review

No degradation of performance observed while running on Red Hat OpenShift vs running in vm. We use a filesystem that was tuned and designed for high performance application with large scale , surprisingly no performance degradation was seen while running this application on Red Hat OpenShift, scalability is also reasonably good. Though we are yet to test it on full scale environment surprising

Good support for the product, ease of use , good design for the product, simple, multiple platforms support with most of public clouds and on Prem platform. Supports single node deployment for quick start and poc. People can try stuff and then if like it move to full scale openshift cluster.

This is the current strategy for the company, most of the products in the organisation are aligning to Openshift and various use cases it support. Also lot of applications are being developed for AI use case, openshift.AI provides opportunity to host and leverage the AI capabilities for these applications.

I was not involved in the in person training, so i
can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly
with Openshift and able to get the in person training done easily, i did not
hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen
seamlessly without any issue.

We went thru the training material on RH webesite, i think its very descriptive and the handson lab sesssions are very useful. It would be good to create more short duration videos covering one single aspect of openshift, this wll keep the interest and also it breaks down the complexity to reasonable chunks.

Redhat openshift provides lot of knobs and configuration parameters to suite the need of a certain use case. Sometimes it becomes bit too complex, may be there should be some profile setting in terms of scalability, like for 1000 application deployment, choose this profile, vs for small scale deployment, use this profile.

We have a formal TAM assigned for Openshift support, which we leverage for product development as well as for our customer related issues. The support is very quick and timely, however multiple times, they need to go back to engineering team and get the answers. It would have been better to have some more deeper SMEs as part of TAMs.

Openshift is designed fairly intuitive way, so its not overly complex to use, however the initial deployment could be challening for bare metal deployments, where customer have to provision and bring in their nodes , work on networking side, which could be at times error prone and can lead to some misconfiguration.

This is a great platform to deployment container applications designed for multiple use cases. Its reasonably scalable platform, that can host multiple instances of applications, which can seamlessly handle the node and pod failure, if they are configured properly. There should be some scalability best practices guide would be very useful

Redhat openshift is generally reliable and available platform, it ensures high availability for most the situations. in fact the product where we put openshift in a box, we ensure that the availability is also happening at node and network level and also at storage level, so some of the factors that are outside of Openshift realm are also working in HA manner.

i was not directly involved in the negotiation process, so i can not confidently asnwer this ,but the vendor could work with RH during sales process to obtain the license, i have not heard major complain in this space, RH is generally available to provide any help during the sales process.

Its reasonably easy for vendors to work with after the sales, as Redhat is generally available to help answer any question or comment received from the customer . As mentioend earlier i was not directly involved in this process, so can not answer it confidently, but did not hear any specific complain.

I was not involved in the pricing and contract terms negotiation, so i can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly with Openshift and able to get the negotiation done easily, i did not hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen seamlessly without any issue.