Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Red Hat OpenShift clusters with containers to host our applications. This is our solution for replacing or coexist with vmware environment.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Improvement on management, auditing, monitoring, performance metrics and diagnostics tools because of the use of opensource.
The ability build and teardown containers to include on demand containers within Red Hat OpenShift allowing savings on resource.

Cons

Merging some tools into a single tool to reduce or simplify the pipeline.

Return on Investment

Reduction in datacenter space and power usage
Reduction in equipment and cost
Reduction in lifecycle management

Application Development and Delivery

Decrease time to production

Performance

Improvement in performance due to less overhead

Alternatives Considered

VMware ESXi

Cost of vMWare and resource intense

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?

Would you buy Red Hat OpenShift again?

Yes

Red Hat OpenShift is less appropriate in an environment where there are needs for standalone baremetal server requirement for specific applications. Red Hat OpenShift is best suited for environments where applications can benefit from on demand services, reduction in cost and savings on resources and equipment.

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