We use it for container orchestration. Some customers don't need to go with the coordinated open source as they need a more enterprise solution, so we use OpenShift. We mainly use it to host IBM CloudSec. We are working with CloudSec for integration, CloudSec for automation, and as a prerequisite for them, they need an OpenShift.
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The platform of the future
What do you like best about the product?
OpenShift makes everything about kubernetes ready for the Enterprise. It allows us to apply security, scaling, and elasticity for the whole company without having to require each team to purchase hardware and do their own setup. It is being used for many lift-n-shift apps as well as micro services and now even virtual machines that cannot easily move to containers.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is hard to keep up on all the things it can do and be able to utilize everything to best of its ability.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves our enterprise platform problem, by allowing a central team to manage and maintain it for everyone, regardless of what they are deploying.
Complex but far more accessible and stable than a Vanilla Kubernetes
What do you like best about the product?
Extra functionnalities and specific operators
What do you dislike about the product?
Kind of hard to deploy, subscription policy a bit complex.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provide a reliable platform to deploy our microservices
Great to remove Broadcom/VMware
What do you like best about the product?
Standardization for Platform Engineering compute. The ease for removing/replacing VMware when using OpenShift Virtualization is best thing going in the industry. Aside from rolling your own, most of the teams skillets will transfer to the platform.
What do you dislike about the product?
Implementation patterns are still lacking, despite Red Hat Architecture. This makes mapping deployment scenarios to use-cases, hard, but not impossible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest one currently is removing/reducing Broadcom taxes and perpetual license debauchery!
Red Hat OpenShift
What do you like best about the product?
It provides an all-in-one platform around Kubernetes, including the networking, security, and routing components. The web console is easy to use, and the oc cli tool is intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Ansible playbooks are very complex and difficult to trace back when troubleshooting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's providing a standard for containerized applications across the company, which reduces the effort required for application migrations.
OpenShift review
What do you like best about the product?
Knowing the features that I deploy are tested, community support, and have a good lifecycles.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard to adapt teams used to raw K8s to OpenShift methods.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing a flexible platform for dev and prod environments that need to handle constantly changing business application requirements.
Easy to experiment & integrate with the help of platform operators
What do you like best about the product?
The Openshift Platform Operator Hub, which provides numerous operators for applications such as Keycloak (RHBK), RHOAI, and the support for offline operators download.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes with Operators it is difficult to figure out what exactly gets installed and the functionality of each CRs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Orchestration of containers & resource allocation, monitoring
I love open source and redhat
What do you like best about the product?
Containers are awesome, redhat wraps kubernetes in a nicely curated ecosystem
What do you dislike about the product?
slight lag in latest open source features/versions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
organizes application teams, better developer lifecycles
Awesome explaining experience
What do you like best about the product?
Conductibility and cloud are the base of everything
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing, your explanation was awesome and truthful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Control
Our management
Our management
Deployment with training
What do you like best about the product?
The training makes deployment easy, our solutions are on market place so it is now even easier for our customers to deploy out solutions on openshift
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing :) .. I have to say something so i am saying pricing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick deployment
Seamlessly monitor microservices with streamlined DevOps capabilities
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
With OpenShift, it gives me the ability and capability to monitor all my microservices and all my containers using its integrated monitoring. Its horizontal pod scaling is more efficient than the one used in Kubernetes.
What is most valuable?
Most benefit from it, however, I work with Kubernetes, and installing Vanilla Kubernetes is easy. That said, it introduces many tools that need to be set up individually. OpenShift comes ready out of the box, with all tools installed and configured. Red Hat certifies and confirms that all the components are compatible with each other.
OpenShift's superior dashboard is a notable strength, especially when compared to Kubernetes. The integrated DevOps capabilities, such as pipelines and the container registry, are extremely beneficial.
Additionally, its capability to monitor microservices and containers with integrated tools like Prometheus is a major advantage. The horizontal pod scaling exceeds the scalability features I found in Kubernetes.
What needs improvement?
OpenShift requires a very expensive and complex infrastructure. If I have a Kubernetes cluster with one master and three workers, to apply the same configuration in OpenShift, I need about three masters, three infra, and three workers.
It uses around double the resources of vanilla Kubernetes. Also, learning OpenShift requires complex infrastructure, needing vCenter integration, more advanced answers, active directory, and more expensive hardware. These demands can deter people from learning OpenShift.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Red Hat OpenShift for about four years now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
OpenShift is stable but comes at the cost of a very expensive infrastructure. It provides better performance yet requires more resources compared to vanilla Kubernetes.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
OpenShift's horizontal pod scaling is more effective and efficient than that used in Kubernetes, making it a superior choice for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
We have dealt with many cases with Red Hat support, and while they eventually solve issues, it sometimes takes them a long time to reach a resolution, particularly with complex matters related to IBM Cloud. We have rated their support a seven out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used Vanilla Kubernetes, VMware Kubernetes, etc., before. OpenShift is the more powerful and supported solution between them.
How was the initial setup?
The setup involves creating a configuration file called 'install-config.' After providing necessary parameters such as vCenter's URL, username, and password, an Ignition file is generated. A virtual machine is then created from an OVA file with attached parameters.
Although the process is still somewhat complex due to user-provisioned infrastructure, OpenShift offers a simpler installer-provided infrastructure. We chose user-provided because it offers more control over our environment.
What was our ROI?
With OpenShift combined with IBM Cloud App integration, I can spin an integration server in a second as compared to traditional methods, which could take days or weeks.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The cost of OpenShift is very high, particularly with the OpenShift Plus package, which includes many products and services. While I know it's expensive, I do not have the specific numbers.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I have used Vanilla Kubernetes, VMware Kubernetes, etc., before. OpenShift has proven to be better.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend having a solid understanding of Kubernetes before transitioning to OpenShift as it is based on Kubernetes. Without this knowledge, managing and maintaining OpenShift can be a nightmare.
I rate OpenShift as a nine point nine out of ten. I suggest considering the necessary infrastructure and related costs before adopting OpenShift.
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