My Experience with Red Hat OpenShift
We use Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) to run our AAP and EDA applications. We ARO, we're able to scale up and down easily as needed, and …
Starting at $0.08 per hour
View Pricing Overview
What is Red Hat OpenShift?
OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
Recent Reviews
How Red Hat OpenShift Differs From Its Competitors
Awards
Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards
Popular Features
- Scalability (181)8.888%
- Platform access control (170)8.383%
- Upgrades and platform fixes (169)8.181%
- Platform management overhead (168)7.777%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Video Reviews
7 videos
Keeping it Modernized - Red Hat OpenShift Review from a Systems Analyst
09:19
IT Systems Engineer Gets Honest | OpenShift Review
03:37
Thoughts from an Administrator - Red Hat OpenShift Review
04:22
Pricing
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/…
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $0.08 per hour
Product Demos
Demo: How to try out single-node OpenShift from Red Hat
YouTube
Hands-on demo of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
YouTube
Features
Return to navigation
Product Details
- About
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- FAQs
What is Red Hat OpenShift?
Red Hat® OpenShift® is a unified platform to build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale. It includes an enterprise-ready Kubernetes solution with a choice of deployment and consumption options to meet the needs of the business. OpenShift delivers a consistent experience across public cloud, on-premise, hybrid cloud, or edge architecture. It includes multiple advanced open source capabilities that are tested and integrated with the underlying certified Kubernetes environment, such as Red Hat OpenShift Serverless, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, and Red Hat OpenShift GitOps. Red Hat OpenShift gives users the choice of running cloud services or self-managed editions:
Cloud Services Editions
Red Hat OpenShift cloud services automate the deployment and management of Red Hat OpenShift clusters, so organizations can build, deploy and scale applications quickly without having to incorporate and learn new technologies and processes, or manage integrations. It also helps users to:
Self-Managed Editions
Red Hat OpenShift self-managed editions provide more control and flexibility over OpenShift deployments. Self-managed editions allow deployment on any private or public cloud, on bare metal, or at the edge. In addition, long-term support provides flexible life cycles providing the option to choose when to upgrade to the next version of Red Hat OpenShift.
Cloud Services Editions
- Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS: A turnkey application platform that provides a managed Red Hat OpenShift service running natively on Amazon Web Services (AWS) used by organizations to increase operational efficiency, refocus on innovation, and build, deploy, and scale applications.
- Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift: Red Hat and Microsoft jointly engineer, manage, and support the platform, used by organizations to increase operational efficiency, refocus on innovation, and quickly build, deploy, and scale applications.
- Red Hat OpenShift Dedicated: A managed Red Hat OpenShift offering on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud.
- Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud: A managed Red Hat OpenShift cloud service that reduces operational complexity and helps organizations build and scale applications with the security of IBM Cloud.
Red Hat OpenShift cloud services automate the deployment and management of Red Hat OpenShift clusters, so organizations can build, deploy and scale applications quickly without having to incorporate and learn new technologies and processes, or manage integrations. It also helps users to:
- Reduce security & compliance risk through 24x7 global SRE coverage.
- Limit operational and staffing dependencies attached to particular providers.
- Reduce integration bottlenecks with repeatability and consistency for multi-cloud deployments.
Self-Managed Editions
- Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus: The recommended self-managed option that builds on the capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with a complete platform for accelerating application development and application modernization. The full portfolio includes all the features of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform along with several integration technology solutions including Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation, and Red Hat Quay.
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform: A full set of operations and developer services and tools that includes everything in the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine plus additional features and services.
- Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine: An enterprise Kubernetes runtime that includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS immutable container operation system, administrator console and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
Red Hat OpenShift self-managed editions provide more control and flexibility over OpenShift deployments. Self-managed editions allow deployment on any private or public cloud, on bare metal, or at the edge. In addition, long-term support provides flexible life cycles providing the option to choose when to upgrade to the next version of Red Hat OpenShift.
Red Hat OpenShift Video
Red Hat OpenShift overview
Red Hat OpenShift Competitors
Red Hat OpenShift Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
Red Hat OpenShift starts at $0.076.
Tanzu Application Platform, SUSE Rancher, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) are common alternatives for Red Hat OpenShift.
Reviewers rate Scalability highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of Red Hat OpenShift are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
Comparisons
Compare with
Reviews and Ratings
(405)Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 63)Companies can't remove reviews or game the system. Here's why
May 25, 2024
My Experience with Red Hat OpenShift
We use Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) to run our AAP and EDA applications. We ARO, we're able to scale up and down easily as needed, and with AAP managing over 3000 servers across multiple teams, that's a huge advantage. We are also looking into moving other Kubernetes workloads into ARO.
- Ease of management
- Logging
- Auditing
- Faster deployment
- Slightly less confusing tables
- More graphs
May 14, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
Right now the largest use that we're seeing for it with a lot of our customers is around Red Hat OpenShift virtualization. Due to some of the turmoil in the market and some of the moves and some of the products that are being discontinued, there's a huge demand for customers to take their virtual machine workloads and move them to another location. Right now, the best choice for that is Red Hat OpenShift virtualization.
- Red Hat has gone a very long way towards making the migration from other hypervisors, such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or VMware into Red Hat OpenShift virtualization. So the migration, albeit offline, works very well.
- I don't know that it would actually be possible, but minimizing the downtime and being able to facilitate a migration without service outages.
May 14, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
The business case is supporting the container platforms and orchestrating the container platforms. This business is more about supporting the developers. It could be anything from qualifying a component code process, CICD platforms, or a temporary platform to test the components. Hosting critical tool sets, North Star tool sets that support the world of business. It could be anything that is cloud native. There is a lot of benefits that we are getting from Red Hat OpenShift. One is ease of management. The way it helps with GitHub's principles, the way how they have componentized everything and the user has the privilege to go to the operator and select what they need and deploy it as per their requirement. Even they can customize it as per the business requirements. To speak about the benefits, I can speak the entire day about it for the time. I would say only this much. These are the use cases that I have just covered well for the entire business where all container platforms are coming nowadays, if you look at container containerization hitting the market, that is where everyone is moving forward. Everyone wants to land in that space.
- One thing is the way how it works with the GitHubs model on an enterprise business, how the hub and spoke topology works. Hub cluster topology works the way how there is a governance model to enforce policies. The R back models, the Red Hat OpenShift virtualization that supports the cube board and developer workspace is one big feature within. So yes, these are all some features I would call out.
- I wouldn't necessarily say there is look everyday technology transform. I can see a trend wherein Red Hat OpenShift is adopting all the new technology trends and helping their customers align with their priorities and the emerging technology trends. I wouldn't call out various scope for development every day. There is scope for development. It is all how the organizations adopt it and how they deliver it to their customers. I don't want to call out there is scope for development. It's happening. It is a never ending process.
- At the moment, I don't have anything to call out. We are experiencing Red Hat OpenShift and we can see every day they're coming up with new features as and when they come up with new features, we want to experience it more and more. We are looking for opportunities wherein this can be leveraged to help our users and partners.
May 14, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
Red Hat OpenShift is used within our organization for helping to modernize and speed up application delivery. The business problem that we're trying to address is trying to figure out ways for us to move our applications faster to production, and get features out there quicker so that we can turn around more stuff for our customers. The scope of our use case right now is primarily business-facing application stuff that we use for helping our subscribers and our providers, but it also includes our internal-facing applications as well. So any internal tools that we use for doing our own work and a lot of that same type of stuff all gets migrated to Red Hat OpenShift.
- One of the big advantages of Red Hat OpenShift is, especially over Kubernetes itself, is that it provides a lot of built-in operators for doing a lot of different things right out of the box that you don't have to worry about trying to configure. So one of the big ones is, I mean, right in your face is that user interface and being able to work with it inside of a browser. And I think that works very, very well.
- So I don't know that this is a specific disadvantage for Red Hat OpenShift. It's a challenge for anything that Kubernetes face is. There's an extremely large learning curve associated with it and once you get to the point where you're comfortable with it, it's really not bad. But beating that learning curve is a challenge. I've done a couple presentations on our implementation of Red Hat OpenShift at various conferences and one of the slides I always have in there is a tweet from years ago that said, "I tried to teach somebody Kubernetes once. Now neither of us knows what it is."
May 13, 2024
Fantastic tool !!!
In our organization it is primary containerization and orchestration platform. It streamlines application containerization and orchestration and ensures consistent deployment. It integrates easily with DevOps for faster deployment and supports hybrid cloud setups. Its security features protects data and ensures compliance. Applications can be easiy scaled up and down based on demands.
- It automates deployment process which ensures seamless updates without any manual intervention.
- Its scaling capabilities allows application to scale both horizontally and vertically based on demand. Like, during peak traffic hours it automatically spin up extra container and spin down during off-peak hours. It efficiently manages fluctuating workloads.
- It automatically detects and recover from failure which minimizes downtime.
- UI and UX can be more simplified and that would become an added advantages along with the powerful features it offers.
- Great compatibility with many DevOps tools but faces issue integration with many third party tools.
- Network configuration is complex which can be improved by making easier network policies.
May 13, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
Deploy container applications in our Openshift environments which hosts microservices as well as kafka
- Container workloads
- Automation
- Scale
- I think the interface should be better
- Better troubleshooting
May 13, 2024
A platform you can depend on.
Interested in migrations from vsphere to rhv. I am also interested in standardizing on-prem K8s to OpenShift from a variety of other distros, including Tanzu and Rancher. Openshift has stood the test of time while other platforms have come and gone or have failed to live up to their promise. The support of the opensource community helps a lot.
- Solid on-prem k8s stack.
- Simplifies managing kubernetes.
- Adds new relevant features.
- Still complex to deploy and manage on bare metal.
May 13, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
We use Red Hat OpenShift to set up clusters on client side. Some projects we are doing on client side is in finance sector. For example, we build billing platforms and we deploy Red Hat OpenShift in different stages. And what we do is we do the installation and consulting services, connecting all the other environment tools to Red Hat OpenShift to get the software up and running. We do also consulting service in building deployment pipelines to get the software on Red Hat OpenShift.
- The first interviews we have with our clients are most time they're coming from vanilla Kubernetes. And the best benefit which Red Hat OpenShift provides in very early stages, we have a supported Kubernetes platform and we have a full Red Hat support behind that. And on top of that, we can use all the other Red Hat OpenShift tools, which are already built in because it's not easy to install, monitoring, logging, for example. So I would say batteries included and that's the best fit for us and for the customers.
- I would say that's the logging part because Red Hat OpenShift write tons of locks and if most time in the finance industry, we cannot use the built in logging infrastructure for compliance reasons. And we have to forward the logs out of the system and this is, it's too much, which we forward from one cluster. Most time we'll build up multi clusters, so we speak about 10 or more clusters. And if you send log files from 10 or more clusters, the logging systems are not prepared to take that much load. And then really often you have license problems with the logging system, so that's not really, really fun. So logging could be improved.
May 10, 2024
feedback from USA based university BYU.
I resell Redhat as a distributor. One of the end-users at BYU, a university, finds the how-to manuals or instructions too convoluted. They requested a simplified manual focusing only on the installation and integration steps. They wanted a separate manual for the features. In short, it is straightforward to install, followed by another set of instructions for adding features.
- Console
- Ease admin
- Can be used with multiple platforms.
- OpenShift 3 cannot migrate to OpenShift 4.
- De install older versions.
May 10, 2024
OpenShift makes deploying apps easier.
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.
Manage cluster-level automation on a wide scale to manage resources efficiently.
- Flexible scaling.
- Better resources management.
- Cluster wide monitoring.
- Easy setup.
- Terminal
- Access roles.
- Cost
May 10, 2024
My review
Singular platform integration. One of the hardest parts of working in a high end department is the lack of locations where you can initiate your workflow. With Red Hat OpenShift you are able to work in the same area and keep everything on one platform. With Red Hat OpenShift we’ve been able to speed up production and get work done faster.
- Singular platform
- Auromation
- Clean interface
- Documentation
- Pricepoint
- Integration with other Red Hat products
We are using it for some of our largest and most important applications. Our implementation is on Power and support for applications and other pieces of it lag behind the x86 side of things. However, we like power as it has more 'power' than on x86 platforms. I think that if people understood this more and that the Power platform isn't something to fear, more would adopt it as it is also more secure.
- Deployments
- Updating Applications
- Agility
- Updates
- Alerting capabilities
- Observing what is going on in the cluster
- Dynamic resource changes up or down.
May 09, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift is Powerful
We use it to help containerize and develop code using dev spaces. The use case is to help modernize our services.
- Easy User Interface
- Good Security
- Versatile
- Understanding VMs in it more
- Pooled storage for VMs
- More Rhel feature
We use RH OpenShift to reduce our stores' overall hardware count and save on costs. The business problem is that it's becoming too costly to maintain our physical hardware at 280+ stores, and we know that we can move all of our core services onto OpenShift clusters and reduce the physical hardware count at our stores.
- Containerizing our services.
- High-availability and scalability.
- Being a cost-effective solution.
- More reliable upgrade path (in terms of security).
May 09, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift
We use Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform because of the benefits to application modernization, enhanced security and compliance, performance and efficiency, sustainably, reliability, etc..
- Allows devops automation
- Enhanced observability options
- Developer autonomy
- Containers are still complicated compared to vms
- Permissions are complex
- Logging is complex
May 09, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
We use Red Hat Openshift in our program to help developers build and deploy applications
- Build applications
- Deploy applications
- Automated installations
- Struggle to keep up the pace with K8’s
- Does not support ingres
- In my experience, Red Hat OpenShift Support isn’t great
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift is excellent!
We are beginning our supported Kubernetes journey with Red Hat OpenShift. So far, we have been able to speed up the development pipeline as well as transition our traditional services and websites to a highly scalable platform. Although the learning curve has been a fairly steep one, we are quickly becoming more and more comfortable with the solution.
- Self-healing
- Excellent support
- Always adding new features
- Many features only available via terminal
- Support personnel hours can be wildly inconsistent
- User/group management is tedious
We are doing a POC for large scale VM migration from ESXI
- Containers
- Networking
- GUI
- Virtual machines. Bringing up a single VM and shutting it down is fine. Does not work at scale.
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Review
Provider of the container platform for Cisco IT teams
- Trusted Enterprise level Product and Echo System
- Partner Support and Engagement
- Have seen that new feature or version does not work well for our scale. Have reported multiple issues for Red Hat OpenShift MTC issue, Server less feature and Red Hat OpenShift AI features
Application deployment in a controlled manage env providing all a wholesome wrapper around my otherwise kubernetes containers.
- Application deployment
- Autoscaling
- Support services
- Container registry integration
- Difficult to get started
- Requires RH SME to get started
- Better AI integration needed
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
Red Hat OpenShift is used for a lot of different workloads in our organization; web apps, services, ML, and vendor provided applications. Main business problems Red Hat OpenShift solved was speed to market, and allowing developers to own the process and their applications.
- Easy deployment
- Speed to market
- Empowering developers
- Ability to easily spin up more pods for heavy workloads
- Complicated setup and maintenance of clusters
- Overall cost
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review after a year.
We use Red Hat OpenShift to help our customers containerize their workloads and deploy Devspaces to help new developers get up to speed with their coding environments to get them coding quickly in a consistent environment. Red Hat OpenShift makes it easy to deploy workloads and segment it based on each team or person's workload.
- Quickly deploying operators and containers
- Role based access
- Flexibility to have containers and VMs side by side
- Documentation
- Setup in disconnected environments
May 08, 2024
ROSA Review
We use Red Hat OpenShift with a on premise cluster and also a ROSA cluster inside the AWS west 2 region.
- ROSA assists us with the control plane, save our management work and cost
- Supported our CI/CD with our web services.
- We are currently using ROSA version 4.14. We don't have clearly instruction on how to upgrade to 4.15. It seems that it is a hard fork in code base. We do not have an available to upgrade from either command line or GUI.
E-Commerce Order Management System utilizing a ARO solution cluster
- Performance
- Product and Platform Support
- Scalability
- GUID Usability
- Gap Management between Ops, Development, and Infrastructure