Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At my organization, we use Red Hat OpenShift to run our workloads. This is our primary k8s implementation. We use it to address the stability issues that our business had previously. Another important alternative approach is it being cloud agnostic and portal. That way our business is not tied down to one provider.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Seamless integration with other products
Robust and wide variety of features
The Red Hat OpenShift console.
secret auto rotation

Cons

operator maintenance
complex service mesh solution
pricing model

Return on Investment

Decreased time to deploy.
Decrease time to market
Increase in productivity

Efficiency

There was a complex network requirement to enable SSL through the request all the way to the pod from the external load balancer. Since there were multiple hops, the request had to be re-encrypted. Red Hat OpenShift service mesh helped resolve this problem. Also, the gitops/argo cd has enabled the dev community to deploy faster using the application sets.

Infrastructure

it is a multi cluster environment where each stage, dev, QA and prod has their own Red Hat OpenShift app cluster managed by an management cluster. This i see is a good way to manage the multi cluster architecture. Also, provide prod like environment for the development community. Not sure about the edge, but we have a public cloud integration.

Alternatives Considered

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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 Ansible Automation Platform, Alpine Linux

Likelihood to Recommend

Red Hat OpenShift is best suited for companies that have the business need to rapidly expand and scale in a short period of time. Also, its wide range of axiliary features allows an organization to scale up and expand. I do not think it is best suited for small or mid level organization since the licensing cost is high, and the implementation is quite complex.

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