Red Hat OpenShift is great for deploying scalable microservices
May 21, 2025

Red Hat OpenShift is great for deploying scalable microservices

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (self-managed)

Modules Used

  • OpenShift Virtualization
  • OpenShift Service Registry

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

We use Red Hat OpenShift in our organization to run scalable RESTful Web services which communicate with a mainframe in the backend using IBM ODS. The product addresses the static hardware architecture we have been running the services on until now, and allows us to scale the application to account for user load and volume to keep resource usage and costs low.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Highly configurable
  • Platform agnostic

Cons

  • More accessible educational courses
  • More meaningful errors
  • Increased configmap/secret count
  • Decreased downtime
  • Improved productivity
  • Better developer experience
Red Hat OpenShift has helped to streamline the application development lifecycle when it comes to DevSpaces as well since it helps to bring up an entire development environment in a few minutes for newly-onboarded developers. Adding in the ability to deploy directly to new namespace allocated to that user in DevSpaces means its easy to replicate issues from lower environments in a very similar environment that's easily debuggable.
We utilize Red Hat OpenShift deployed on-prem and in the cloud. The platform agnostic abilities of OpenShift allow us to make sure that similar code runs the same way in each cloud platform.
RedHat OpenShift can run on-prem and on Azure, meaning we can get support from RedHat from two platforms, despite it being on those different platforms.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Red Hat OpenShift again?

Yes

Kubernetes workloads where you need a highly flexible and scalable architecture with which to run your microservices on.

Red Hat OpenShift Feature Ratings

Scalability
10
Platform management overhead
6
Workflow engine capability
7
Platform access control
10
Services-enabled integration
10
Development environment creation
7
Development environment replication
5
Issue monitoring and notification
4
Issue recovery
4
Upgrades and platform fixes
7

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