Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Reviews

The opinionated capabilities helping make a journey to containers simple.

Some of the prebuilt components that are self installed

Management and security of resources

It provides you with a centralized environment to orchestrate or scale up your applications.

Also, a framework independent container platform along with the complete tracking of your resource utilization of all of your deployed applications.

As the community is so small, there is less documentation available.

Also, it is not compatible with every other operating system you can only have a minimal choice of selection between them.

While moving from hypervisor to redhat openshift. It was easy to migrate between the ESXi used virtual machines and openshift on-prem environment. As it is partnered with IBM, so we used IBM Cloud paks for NOI to migrate it.

The best thing about openshift is it give us full customisation rights for creating and deploying any services. Also when a pod gets deleted or gets down it automatically creates a new pod or a replica of it.

Although its a great tool for many companies but still the PVC and external storage creates a mess with the application which causes failure in read and write acess.

It is widely used tool but the main problem that it solves is the container management and its pod monitoring which helps us to create alerts and this makes every company to prevent from a huge losses

Pods Management, routes, services, deployments, projects/ configpaths, oc cli command,cloudbees integration

Cluster admin skills, is not my strong, not more.

release management lifecycle

I like the UI the most about Openshift and also about integrations it comes with ( elastic, kibana) through operators.Documentation is also great to implement

Sometimes configuring security related aspects to container can be difficult

It's solving security related issue which can be seen in normal kubernetes cluster.

I highly recommend considering Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It offers a powerful and feature-rich Kubernetes-based solution for managing containerized applications. It provides an enterprise-ready environment with automation, scaling, and deployment features. Red Hat's commitment to open-source ensures continuous improvement and support from a vibrant community. While there may be a learning curve, the extensive documentation and training resources available make it manageable. Overall, OpenShift is a reliable and scalable option for container platform needs.

Learning Curve: It can have a steeper learning curve compared to other platforms, requiring additional time and effort to fully grasp.

Resource Requirements: Running OpenShift at scale may demand substantial hardware resources, such as CPU, memory, and storage.

Cost: As an enterprise-grade solution, OpenShift comes with licensing fees and support costs, which organizations with limited budgets should consider.

Limited Customization: Some users have expressed limitations in terms of customization options, requiring extra effort or workarounds for specific customizations.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform solves challenges related to containerized application deployment, scalability, lifecycle management, security, collaboration, and DevOps efficiency. It benefits organizations by streamlining deployment, ensuring scalability and performance, simplifying application lifecycle management, enhancing security and compliance, promoting collaboration, and providing enterprise-grade support.

It is enterprise gradede Kubernetes.Developer-Friendly Experience: OpenShift focuses on enhancing the developer experience by providing self-service capabilities, automation, and streamlined workflows. It offers tools for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), enabling developers to efficiently build, test, and deploy applications. It promotes application portability, allowing you to run your applications across hybrid and multicloud environments. It provides features such as role-based access control (RBAC), pod security policies, image scanning, and encryption to safeguard your applications and data. Red Hat also offers security certifications and ensures compliance with industry standards. At the same time it is highly available and scalable.

Running an OpenShift cluster can demand significant CPU, memory, and storage resources, which may lead to higher infrastructure costs compared to simpler container platforms. Also licensing costs are quiet high as I feel.

OpenShift provides built-in monitoring capabilities and integration with popular monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana. Administrators can collect metrics, visualize performance data, and set up alerts to proactively identify and address issues. OpenShift also offers troubleshooting tools, logs aggregation, and debugging capabilities to aid in diagnosing and resolving problems.

Good response for customers.good performance

No dislike for red hat openshift products

Creating a cluster in my project and deploying the services

Openshift use k8s as the underlying orchestration engine which enable automatic scaling, load balancing, and management of containerized applications at scale which provide best solution for containerized applications.

When a new user comes to containerization or Kubernetes then he could find it more complex and also due to tight integration with RedHat technologies can limit flexibility

Provide best Container Orchestration platform,Application Portability,DevOps Collaboration,Scalability and Resilience, Security and Compliance and Ecosystem Integration

The stability of the platform makes it elegant

Nothing at this time. The product works really well.

The security aspect of the platform coupled, with the customer support