Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 10
Author: Abdul Khan

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as a container platform to deploy edge applications in a manufacturing, air-gapped environment. OpenShift addresses business requirements where devices, datalake and operations on the edge need a consolidated platform. Creating expensive virtual machine clusters are archaic and this is where OpenShift helps by empowering our developers to deploy applications straight to the edge.
Another crucial requirement was having a platform that was compatible with our chosen Identity management platform - CyberArk. With Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes, we can ensure that user authentication and management to pods and applications can be safely handled in conjunction with CyberArk.

Pros and Cons

Pros

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

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

Less time to market a application
Shifting from a VM type workload environment to an abstracted code running in container model
A great value add for native cloud administrative team to realize that one management platform is needed for environment where workloads can run in a hybrid scenario and the need to flexibly migrate is needed.

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 engagement for developers to collaborate.

Performance

Self healing capabilities for pods running containerized workloads are a great tool that has completely helped us move away from Docker stand-alone. We considered Docker Swarm and AKS or GKE. But for environments running in a hyper-converged Infrastructure, OpenShift came out on top.
OpenShift is providing us a highly available application layer to keep the apps up and running. In cases of load, we can set auto-scaling options on the application to scale across anytime high loads are encountered. Lots of autoscaling options also provided - like vertical or horizontal scaling.

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

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker

Likelihood to Recommend

OpenShift is well suited to enterprise organizations that have a high availability requirement for their workloads whether it's on-prem or natively in the Cloud. The best part that is that a single container registry can be used or multiple depending on your specific use-cases. But it's very adaptable to multiple developer tools and platforms, from pipelines, to image handling.

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