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OpenShift makes deploying apps easier.
May 10, 2024

OpenShift makes deploying apps easier.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus (self-managed)

Modules Used

  • OpenShift Data Foundation

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

We use it to deploy web applications and provide our developers with a matching production and development environment. We also host our virtual machines to run various services within Openshift Virtualization. Having all of that in one place makes it nice although shifting from RHV to Openshift is a bit of a paradigm change.
  • Providing Dev and prod environment for web apps to run and be tested.
  • Deploying application in a consistent way.
  • One click vm building.
  • Because of how different virtualization is done, there is a learning curve to overcome when switching to it from another hypervisor.
  • Documentation needs to be improved. Just finding the details to set it up is a burden that will keep some people using it.
  • Less developer time is spent fixing things due to differences between the Dev and prod environments.
  • Very stable overall. Rarely have unexpected downtime due to system problems.
It has made a huge difference. It also provides a solid and stable platform for serving up web applications to our users. We rely on Openshift for all our containerized and VM workloads.
We have not seen app performance issues due to Openshift in any of our customers' Web applications. It offers the tools necessary to deliver scalability and stability for our customers.
We have only used Openshift.

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 Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
I wouldn't recommend Openshift to small organizations with a limited budget. Licensing is expensive but often necessary for help when things aren't working as expected or when trying to update your environment.

Red Hat OpenShift Feature Ratings

Platform-as-a-Service
7.6
Scalability
10
Platform management overhead
4
Workflow engine capability
9
Platform access control
6
Services-enabled integration
Not Rated
Development environment creation
9
Development environment replication
10
Issue monitoring and notification
Not Rated
Issue recovery
6
Upgrades and platform fixes
7

Using Red Hat OpenShift

The virtualization part takes some getting used to it you are coming from a more traditional hypervisor. Customization options are not intuitive to these users. The process should be more clear. Perhaps a guide to Openshift Virtualization for users of RHV, VMware, etc. would ease this transition into the new platform.
ProsCons
Like to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Unnecessarily complex
Slow to learn
Feel nervous using
Lots to learn
  • Launching new web apps
  • Creating vms using rhel as an image
  • Initial setup
  • Creating vms when not using images.