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Red Hat OpenShift

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.

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Recent Reviews

Red Hat OpenShift

10 out of 10
June 07, 2024
Incentivized
In our organization, Red Hat OpenShift has been a game-changer for deploying, managing, and scaling our containerized applications. We …
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OCP is the best

10 out of 10
June 07, 2024
Incentivized
We use OpenShift in a completely air gapped/disconnected environment. We hope to provide resiliency and HA to satellite communications and …
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How Red Hat OpenShift Differs From Its Competitors

Application Development and Delivery

Since moving to RHOS we are more conscious about the resources that applications are using as they are finite. We are also more deliberate in security choosing non-root container images as RHOS disallows running containers with root privileges.
Having multiple way to interact with the RHOS we can …
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Application Development and Delivery

We now have multiple (too many to count) CI/CD pipelines that greatly impact our ability to develop, deploy, update, and maintain our applications (at the push of a button). This gives our developers the freedom to work at their pace, and not have to wait for others to approve their containers …
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Application Development and Delivery

Red Hat OpenShift helped us make the devops culture adoption easier across the IT department, by making the Microservices based softwares easier to deploy, monitor and maintain.many performance and security features that were previoulsly home made are now linked to the platform features with easy …
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Application Development and Delivery

It provides a single platform for helping developers and end-users to collaborate and be involved in the process from the inception of a application, to testing the workload whether it's in cloud or in on-prem type environment, all the way from development to production. Furthermore, it fosters …
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Application Development and Delivery

I can't comment on the development part as I am not the developer but I can tell about the deployment that it is greatly enhanced with the integration of GitOps with Red Hat OpenShift. The maintenance is also easy for the infrastructure because the Red Hat OpenShift console provides all the policy …
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Application Development and Delivery

Devops environment is using Red Hat OpenShift cluster on multiple nodes, this allows us to create openshift clusters on demand , where most of the applications can be tested, deployed, before moving to production. This on demand approach has allowed us to efficiently use the available hardware and …
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Application Development and Delivery

We had a log of legacy applications, and we are in the midst of a multi-year effort to migrate to the cloud. OpenShift has helped us port applications over to the hybrid cloud solution - which is a requirement in our financial industry, given the data security constraints. We've been able to …
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Application Development and Delivery

It has impacted our agility to develop, deliver, and maintain applications by making it easier to manage and deploy containers. It also has helped us get off virtual machines to code and being able to use an IDE in a browser.
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Application Development and Delivery

I think it's been a positive impact and it's still transitioning. So we are with Red Hat OpenShift and ever getting more and more teams working with it, finding that we can really standardize a lot on how we do that delivery. And we haven't, haven't ever had that in the past, right? If there are …
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Application Development and Delivery

Positive impact. We use OpenShift extensively for our container workloads, which can be COTS or homegrown. We also plan to use it as a landing zone for general-purpose VMs or VMS that would benefit from K8s APIs and pipelines. We look forward to the production release of hosted control planes, …
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Application Development and Delivery

Red Hat OpenShift has not that much changed on the delivery software delivery process itself because we already had tools which we have used for years. The positive thing is we can integrate that tools with Red Hat OpenShift and maybe for the future we can draw or we can move to Teton, for …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Scalability (181)
    8.9
    89%
  • Platform access control (170)
    8.3
    83%
  • Upgrades and platform fixes (169)
    8.1
    81%
  • Platform management overhead (168)
    7.8
    78%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees
Joshua Jordan
Sr Systems Engineer
Mercury (Computer Networking, 501-1000 employees)

Video Reviews

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Keeping it Modernized - Red Hat OpenShift Review from a Systems Analyst
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IT Systems Engineer Gets Honest | OpenShift Review
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Thoughts from an Administrator - Red Hat OpenShift Review
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Pricing

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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
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Product Demos

Demo: How to try out single-node OpenShift from Red Hat

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Hands-on demo of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

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Features

Platform-as-a-Service

Platform as a Service is the set of tools and services designed to make coding and deploying applications much more efficient

8.1
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

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 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.
Why choose Red Hat OpenShift cloud services?
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
Why choose self-managed Red Hat OpenShift?
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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Red Hat OpenShift Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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 8.9.

The most common users of Red Hat OpenShift are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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June 05, 2024

My first Red Hat OpenShift review

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Manager in Engineering
Computer & Network Security Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
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Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We put Red Hat OpenShift in a box and make on Prem hci appliance. Primary use case of this appliance is to help customer hide the complexity of openshift deployment in terms of networking, bare metal provisioning etc. Also we provide single source of support for all hardware and software pieces , so customer does not need to go to different vendors.
Pros and Cons
  • Monitoring
  • Container management
  • Storage attach
  • Multi cluster management
  • Vm migration
  • Performance monitoring
Likelihood to Recommend
Good support for the product, ease of use , good design for the product, simple, multiple platforms support with most of public clouds and on Prem platform. Supports single node deployment for quick start and poc. People can try stuff and then if like it move to full scale openshift cluster.
Red Hat OpenShift Feature Ratings
Platform-as-a-Service (7)
75.71428571428571%
7.6
Scalability
80%
8.0
Platform access control
60%
6.0
Development environment creation
70%
7.0
Development environment replication
80%
8.0
Issue monitoring and notification
90%
9.0
Issue recovery
70%
7.0
Upgrades and platform fixes
80%
8.0
Return on Investment
  • Better development productivity
Application Development and Delivery
Devops environment is using Red Hat OpenShift cluster on multiple nodes, this allows us to create openshift clusters on demand , where most of the applications can be tested, deployed, before moving to production. This on demand approach has allowed us to efficiently use the available hardware and get most out of it.
Performance
7
No degradation of performance observed while running on Red Hat OpenShift vs running in vm. We use a filesystem that was tuned and designed for high performance application with large scale , surprisingly no performance degradation was seen while running this application on Red Hat OpenShift, scalability is also reasonably good. Though we are yet to test it on full scale environment surprising
Other Software Used
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Users and Roles
400
People in my org who are using openshift are belonging to Product development, product management, product support, sales, marketing. They are looking at ways to easily package and market openshift for various enterprise class container workload at the same time providing data services such as backup restore, disaster recovery, data cataloging etc.
Support Headcount Required
7
Person should have good kubernetes concepts such as pods, CRs, operators, go lang, ansible. Person should have skills to collect and scan thru the openshift logs to understand where problem may happen and provide some guidance around it. Networking is another area, person should have some good knowledge, so any issue happening on this side can be debugged better way.
Business Processes Supported
  • Ease of deployment
  • Providing AI use case
  • Providing data acceleration use case
  • Back and Restore
  • Disaster recovery
Innovative Uses
  • Putting openshift in a box
  • Providing AI services to end user
Future Planned Uses
  • VM workload hosting
  • Multi cluster provisioning and management
Likelihood to Renew
10
This is the current strategy for the company, most of the products in the organisation are aligning to Openshift and various use cases it support. Also lot of applications are being developed for AI use case, openshift.AI provides opportunity to host and leverage the AI capabilities for these applications.
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Cloud Solutions
As the organisations are moving towards their journey to cloud, app moderanisation becomes to key, Openshift provides a very seamless way to deploy and manage the container application with a reliable enterprise class support system. ALso openshift is available for on-prem apart from cloud platforms, this also provides an opportunity for customers to have hybrid cloud strategy
Evaluation Lessons Learned
THere is no other product we evaluadated other than openshift for journey to modernize the application, so nothing is going to change in terms of evaluation and selection process, our main intention is to have easy way to deploy openshift and provide single source of support, we can seamlessly do that with openshift.
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
Implementation Phases
No
Implementation Issues
  • networking
Training Types Used
  • Online Training
  • In-Person Training
In-Person Training
7
I was not involved in the in person training, so i can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly with Openshift and able to get the in person training done easily, i did not hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen seamlessly without any issue.
Online Training
7
We went thru the training material on RH webesite, i think its very descriptive and the handson lab sesssions are very useful. It would be good to create more short duration videos covering one single aspect of openshift, this wll keep the interest and also it breaks down the complexity to reasonable chunks.
Product Configurability
8
Redhat openshift provides lot of knobs and configuration parameters to suite the need of a certain use case. Sometimes it becomes bit too complex, may be there should be some profile setting in terms of scalability, like for 1000 application deployment, choose this profile, vs for small scale deployment, use this profile.
Configuration Lessons
Networking and bare metal deployment should certainly have some best practices for customers to use, as those areas could be very complex and cumbersome. Also some debugging best practices should be created for some commonly knowns issues. Performance enginnering could be another aspect to have some best practices to use for.
UI Customization
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
Extensibility and Customization
No - we have not done any custom code
Additional Customization Considerations
No, there is no customer configuration done for the openshift, though openshift provides extensive platform and configuration parameters to provide customization. But the current configuration and interface was working for us, so we don't need to do any customization in this space. Its easy enough though to do customization with openshift.
Support Rating
7
We have a formal TAM assigned for Openshift support, which we leverage for product development as well as for our customer related issues. The support is very quick and timely, however multiple times, they need to go back to engineering team and get the answers. It would have been better to have some more deeper SMEs as part of TAMs.
Premium Support
Yes, we have premium support. as we work on developing our product based on openshift, at the same time we need help with openshift issues at customer site. So we need a very timely manner response for such issues. Also at times, we need to discuss with RH engineering team on some code development cases, so we need support to bring in right SMEs for such discussion
Exceptional Examples of Red Hat OpenShift Support
During customer support situation couple of months back, Redhat TAM not only worked with us tirelessly but also joined multiple customer calls with us. They have to do multiple times data collection and work back and forth with in their engineering team and with us to get to the root cause, it was time consuming process, but the person provided exceptional support to get it done.
Usability
8
Openshift is designed fairly intuitive way, so its not overly complex to use, however the initial deployment could be challening for bare metal deployments, where customer have to provision and bring in their nodes , work on networking side, which could be at times error prone and can lead to some misconfiguration.
Easy Tasks
  • Application deployment
Difficult Tasks
  • Network setup
Scalability
8
This is a great platform to deployment container applications designed for multiple use cases. Its reasonably scalable platform, that can host multiple instances of applications, which can seamlessly handle the node and pod failure, if they are configured properly. There should be some scalability best practices guide would be very useful
Reliability and Availability
8
Redhat openshift is generally reliable and available platform, it ensures high availability for most the situations. in fact the product where we put openshift in a box, we ensure that the availability is also happening at node and network level and also at storage level, so some of the factors that are outside of Openshift realm are also working in HA manner.
Systems Integrated With
  • Storage integration
  • data services
Its about adding new storage option other than ODF .. it was reasonably easy
Future Integration Plans
  • Storage interfaces
  • data services
Types of Integration
  • Single Signon
Mostly storage options for Openshfit. While openshift provides a default filesystem, but sometiems there is a need to do high speed file system for AI use cases, that requires interfacing with new storage provider, this was done in my product, it was fairly easy, we also customized user interfact to reflect more info of this storage option,
Integration Lessons Learned
Nothing major . I think Redhat openshift does provide lot of interfaces to integrate new feature/function or product interfaces to easily integrate. They should continue to expand the same and produce more documentation and videos/blog to integration samples to integrate new applications and systems to Redhat openshift in seamless manner.
Pre-Sale Experience
8
i was not directly involved in the negotiation process, so i can not confidently asnwer this ,but the vendor could work with RH during sales process to obtain the license, i have not heard major complain in this space, RH is generally available to provide any help during the sales process.
Post-Sale Experience
8
Its reasonably easy for vendors to work with after the sales, as Redhat is generally available to help answer any question or comment received from the customer . As mentioend earlier i was not directly involved in this process, so can not answer it confidently, but did not hear any specific complain.
Key Negotiation Points
As mentioned earlier, i was not directly involved in this process, so could not answer it confidently, but it was fairly easy process to work with RH . Vendor was working with Redhat and did not make any complain, so i thought everything went smoothly and we are able to get the good deal with the vendor.
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8
I was not involved in the pricing and contract terms negotiation, so i can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly with Openshift and able to get the negotiation done easily, i did not hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen seamlessly without any issue.
Dealing with Red Hat
I will not have any tips, as I was not involved in the pricing and contract terms negotiation, so i can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly with Openshift and able to get the negotiation done easily, i did not hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen seamlessly without any issue.
Upgrade Process
No
Upgrade Benefits
  • VM
  • multi cluster
Anticipated Benefits from Future Upgrades
  • VMware application
  • multi cluster
Migrating Between Editions
No
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