Why we decided to choose Red Hat OpenShift
May 22, 2025
Why we decided to choose Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus (self-managed)
Modules Used
- OpenShift API Management
- OpenShift Data Foundation
Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift
We run Red Hat OpenShift as our Enterprise Shared tenancy kuberbnetes solution for smaller applications, testing, and development workloads. We also use it for dedicated clusters for more complex and intensive workloads. For our development systems we are using DevSPaces to provide a common development environment and assist with restrictions we case with running Linux on development workstations.
Pros
- It makes meeting Industry Compliance standards much easier
- It's 'opinionated' choice on many common services helps narrow down selection processes
- Red Hat OpenShift support for our clusters is critical for our success
Cons
- I think Red Hat OpenShift is expensive
- Because of price and cluster overhead, ROI takes time and is difficult to show
- Red Hat OpenShift provides excellent cloud support, has excellent compliance and vulnerability scanning tools. These help tremendously with showing ROI
- Red Hat OpenShift AI will be a game changer in delivering ROI
We heavily use most of these services. I would agree that all of these services help simplify and improve development lifecycle.
We are currently using ArgoCD to move workloads between Azure Red Hat OpenShift and self managed Red Hat OpenShift running in AWS. We will soon be introducing Red Hat OpenShift on Bare metal and plan on incorporating these same ArgoCD pipelines.
Even though Red Hat OpenShift has more overhead than many other Kubernetes flavors, we have selected Red Hat OpenShift because of it's focus on Security and because of it's excellent vendor support.
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
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