Red Hat OpenShift review
May 08, 2024

Red Hat OpenShift review

Josh Hittle | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (self-managed)

Modules Used

  • OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka
  • OpenShift API Management

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

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.

Pros

  • Easy deployment
  • Speed to market
  • Empowering developers
  • Ability to easily spin up more pods for heavy workloads

Cons

  • Complicated setup and maintenance of clusters
  • Overall cost
  • Time to spin up a new app is minutes, as compared to days/weeks for spinning up new VMs
  • Empowering developers to deploy and maintain applications within their namespace
  • Allows for more flexibility to deploy applications
I'm on the server side, so it's hard for me to quantify the overall impact, but I believe it has helped tremendously to deliver new applications, as well as applications updates to our environment. The overall adoption of Red Hat OpenShift by the majority of development teams has been high, and the feedback from developers has been very positive for the most part. Any negative feedback I'm aware of has been primary due to over committing resources.
I gave this rating because of recent issues with CPU contention. The majority of the root cause was an extreme over commitment of CPU on the admin team, but part of that was related to Red Hat OpenShift itself.
These were both stood up for separate products. Needless to say the workloads on CDP are going to be migrated to Red Hat OpenShift in the very near future.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Red Hat OpenShift go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat OpenShift again?

Yes

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Red Hat OpenShift overall is a pretty fantastic product. However, I think there is a steep learning curve for administrators of the clusters, and a complicated configuration depending on the amount of integrations. Also, the cost of standing up clusters has perpetually increased, which has become a rather expensive endeavor especially when talking about machine learning,

Red Hat OpenShift Feature Ratings

Platform-as-a-Service
6.3
Ease of building user interfaces
6
Scalability
8
Platform management overhead
5
Workflow engine capability
6
Platform access control
7
Services-enabled integration
7
Development environment creation
Not Rated
Development environment replication
Not Rated
Issue monitoring and notification
4
Issue recovery
6
Upgrades and platform fixes
8

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