My Experience with Red Hat OpenShift
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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.
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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.
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
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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 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.
We are using Red Hat OpenShift, the managed openshift clusters in AWS. We are running multiple tier 1 applications in our ROSA clusters. Most of them are stateless workloads which needs to scale on demand and can be easily deployed as Highly Available applications. For our business Red Hat OpenShift is enabling our application teams to quickly deploy for faster time to market availability and most importantly business applications gets by default auto scaling and high availability.
- Faster deployment of business applications
- Provide high availability
- Provide autoscaling of applications and platform
- Faster upgrade and low maintenance
- Building new Red Hat OpenShift clusters should be faster and consistent
- Application migrations from one cluster to another should be less disruptive
- Red Hat OpenShift upgrade should have a path to rollback if it doesn’t work for our environment due to issues / bugs
May 10, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
Red Hat OpenShift used in our organization improved the high availability and scalability of the application.
- Horizontal pod scaling based on memory and CPU usage
- One click upgrade
- 0 downtime deployment
- Auto scaling based application transaction volume
- Upgrade rollback option
- Windows containers identity provider connect
May 10, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
We use it for our core logistic software, we also have the development environment test environment and quality assurance. We also use it to run Mission critical software like sap dot we use open shift for things like trying new applications and make proof of concepts for the business or logistic company. Also use for running machine learning and image recognition.
- Managing pods resources
- Elasticity for workloads
- Centralized administration
- User interface
- Learning
- Notification
- Logging search
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
I'm a Red Hat partner and we use Red Hat OpenShift to deliver our customer's app modernization projects.
Most of them rely on their on premises infrastructure, so Red Hat OpenShift can build a solid foundation to run their traditional apps while we work on the modernization process.
Another challenge we help our customer's with Red Hat OpenShift is their vanilla Kubernetes environment that lacks automation and monitoring, so we can deliver a fully integrated application platform with OCP and OCP Plus.
Most of them rely on their on premises infrastructure, so Red Hat OpenShift can build a solid foundation to run their traditional apps while we work on the modernization process.
Another challenge we help our customer's with Red Hat OpenShift is their vanilla Kubernetes environment that lacks automation and monitoring, so we can deliver a fully integrated application platform with OCP and OCP Plus.
- Cloud native apps and AI workloads
- Monitoring tools
- Scalability and stability
- Multi-hybrid environments
- Resources usage for the OCP Plus components.
- Architecture of cluster hub.
- Remote workers architecture
May 09, 2024
I'm looking for a bright future.
Applications in Private Cloud. Health assurance business services with MongoDB, Kafka, and elastic search technologies. Everything is automated with Ansible.
- Periodical Updates.
- Recently new options, tools and other stuff.
- Is very stable.
- Good Performance.
- Permission management for users is sometimes tricky.
May 09, 2024
It's exciting to learn.
We use RedHat OpenShift to manage our clusters, AWS resources, and containers.
- Easy deployment of operators.
- Cluster updates.
- Dashboard/GUI.
- No built-in scheduler for hibernating clusters.
- Learning resources are hard to access.
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift review
I mainly use openscap to scan for vulnerabilities in the system and ensure compliance.
- Technical product descriptions
- Scalability
- SELinux is a good program
- More flexibility on cloud based products
- Flexibility for security based systems
- Takes a while to speak to a live agent expert
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 use it as a container platform to deploy edge applications in a manufacturing, tight-gapped environment.
- Container Platform for developers to test, update, deploy and bring an application from development to production
- Provides a single platform natively in cloud and in on-prem. It's a perfect fit for Hybrid organizations like ours. ARO is a great asset and so is deploying Red Hat OpenShift on-prem in virtual instances
- Highly dependent platform built on Red Hat Linux OS which helps on saving costs
- Collaboration with on-prem specialiszed vendors like VMware, MS Hyper-V perhaps?
- Be more open to using other container registry platforms in demos like Container Registry in Azure
- Documentation is hidden behind a Training Subscription.
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift benefits
We use Red Hat OpenShift as a container platform to build and deploy our applications. It lets us develop, test, and run apps in isolated containers, making them faster, more portable, and easier to manage. This helps us innovate quicker and scale our applications efficiently.We even build platforms on Red Hat OpenShift for users in our team
- Security
- Deployment using pipelines
- Devspaces
- User interface
- rbac
May 08, 2024
Happy Red Hat OpenShift user
We use Red Hat OpenShift to deploy applications. We use ArgoCD for CD. Problems the product addresses is that we need to have fast application deploy to production. We also have several environments for testing our applications and user acceptance test environments for applications that are near deploy to the production. Using Red Hat OpenShift we manage to achieve all that.
- Fast application deployment
- Fast installation of different operators
- Security Management
- Support for databases deployment
- Sometimes we have need for a Windows containers
- Better memory management
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Experience
It helped in deploying Red Hat OpenShift applications
- Ease of deployment
- secure images
- great oberavalibilty
- ACS is hard to use
- Argo CD should have a better interface
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift for the Win!
I leverage Red Hat OpenShift for containerization and now it handles VM workloads as well.
- Manages containers
- single pane of glass
- easy to move workloads into the cloud
- currently for VMs, you can only have one disk
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift for every one
We use Red Hat OpenShift for platform that we provide to our customers and cloud agonistic
- Easy to use
- Open source
- Cost
- Safe
- Innovation
- Ease of use
May 08, 2024
OpenShift review
We are looking to have it replace over time our ESXI as well as allow for more seamless containerization.
- Integration with podman
- Visibility into the entire infrastructure from a single pane
- Deployment of test environments
- Find a way to use cloudinit
- A more simplified setup for groups of servers
- More point and click setups for non-kubernetes and linux users.
May 08, 2024
Private cloud is OpenShift
I use OpenShift to teach my advanced students an opensource cloud platform. The student feedback has been positive.
- Allow local private cloud usage
- Allows a combination of private and public cloud as public cloud provider support OpenShift
- As an open source product users can help enhance and contribute to the offering
- Simpler understanding between Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift
- Document a minimal build for private test environments
- Not sure
May 08, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift Rocks!
We currently use Red Hat OpenShift to deploy all our Applications via GitOps using ArgoCD and Tekton Pipelines. It also runs our automation platform using the AWX Operator. Using CRDs and Operators has streamlined our deployment process from days to minutes. Being able to use the build in monitoring solution provided from Red Hat OpenShift implementing obserability alerting is simple as deploying a pod.
- User Friendly UI
- Routes
- Developer Experience
- Security
- CRDs could be grouped a bit easier
- Being able to set alert rules to cater for user workloads simply
Scalability of developer environments, quick container deployment
- Working with developers is streamlined, there is little time to wait for deployments
- Documentation - updates are quick but documentation is slow to update
March 17, 2024
Red Hat OpenShift: One of the Best Cloud Platforms!
In our organization, we have thousands of microservices that were deployed on Kubernetes. The management of thousands of services was becoming very difficult so we decided to switch to Red Hat OpenShift.We use Red Hat OpenShift for the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure. With Red Hat OpenShift, we have an enterprise-grade platform, simplified management, and comprehensive support. In addition, we are able to run Kubernetes workloads in Red Hat OpenShift.
- Red Hat OpenShift is well-suited for complex requirements.
- Management of Red Hat OpenShift is easy when compared to Kubernetes.
- Kubernetes workloads can be easily migrated over to Red Hat OpenShift.
- Red Hat OpenShift has integrated developer tools and enhanced security.
- The dashboard can be a bit more user-friendly.
- Completed jobs continue to show up in the dashboard.
- There should be an option to filter out the completed BuildConfigs.
February 26, 2024
Open shift container platform (self managed) Review
So my team with the automation team assists what we call the portal team in maintaining their OpenShift environment, their deployments, and their backups, as well as maintaining our Ansible a p platform on OpenShift, running an operator. So my team and I are doing most of the heavy lifting on the OpenShift side for what we call the Bell Self-serve portal.
- Obviously, it does container orchestration very well because it's the main purpose of the product. Creating routes has been very easy with the product, creating accessible routes, managing quotas, managing our workspace and our workload has been very efficient with this as well as managing our horizontal scalability.
- Sometimes the error messages are very vague when they happen and we have to dig in a lot longer than we should have just to find the exact error message in some lug. Whereas it could have been clear in the events, I assume. Aside from that, that's pretty much what I can think of off the top of my head.