Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 10
Author: Milan Jovanovic

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are Red Hat Partner that explore and dive deep into knowledge of each of the products that Red Hat offers. We have multiple instances of Red Hat OpenShift deployed in our lab environment to test and validate proposed architectures that we propose to the end customers. Also once we propose the architecture we typically proceed and create proposed architecture with the customer and support them on their journey with Red Hat stacks

Pros and Cons

Pros

Operator Catalog
Simplify overview of deployed stuff
Console integration with various additions that helps developers

Cons

OOMKilled is sometimes hard to find as it is not in events nor in status but rather on container status that sometimes we overlook

Return on Investment

Flexibility to spin up new environments
In combination with ArgoCD ease of reproducing in case of outage
Paired with Developer Hub and Golden Paths ease of deploying new service to the production with one click

Efficiency

It is now a required part of SDLC. All mentioned components above are in a way integrated in SDLC depending on the team and team responsibilities. Having one holistic platform helps management from administrator perspectives, and helps ease of use from developer perspective. We have one place to get Insights in everything - no need to jump back and front between various tools

Infrastructure

Right now we mostly see hybrid approach with ACM being a cloud-first citizen, while workload clusters are depending on the customer user case, regulatory requirements and other internal policies if such workload can be run on the public cloud.

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (StackRox), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Quay

They are great addition to the Red Hat OpenShift itself

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Red Hat OpenShift go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat OpenShift again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (StackRox), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

Typically users do not think about day-2 operations and all the out of the box stuff that you get from Red Hat OpenShift in comparison to the plain Kubernetes. Networking, ingress controller are just a few components that you do not need to think with Red Hat OpenShift, but can be a very hard topic with plain Kubernetes deployment.