We need to build a lockdown version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to build our application on top.
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Makes it easy to go back and look at all the Open CVEs
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
It gives us a stable and secure platform on top of which we can build our applications.
We use Red Hat Enterprise Linux for containerization projects. It allows us to do better application isolation using containers. If I want to take a program that runs on my system and put it in its own network namespace, I can put it in a container. I can put a physical interface in with it and run them together in that container.
It definitely makes it easy to go back and look at all the Open CVEs and things like that.
It works well for us in terms of the portability of applications and containers for keeping our organization agile. We are able to do the kind of things we need to do. We are able to modify the system to do whatever we need to do to get where we want to go.
What is most valuable?
Things like packaging and the stability you get from things being downstream are valuable. A lot of times, upgrades are more security-based and not feature-based, so things do not break API-wise as we go forward a lot of times.
What needs improvement?
I feel like it is going all over the place now. Sometimes it is hard to figure out what is going on. I would like more guidance.
We definitely spend a lot of time developing on top of things, but I am not sure what on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux side can be better.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ten years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is very scalable. I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
It has been great when we needed it. We have not needed a lot of it, but we have had no problems when we needed it.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We did not use a similar solution previously. We have only been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
How was the initial setup?
We use it on-premises. We use the ISO installer. We install it via CD ROM on-site.
I was not involved in its initial deployment.
What was our ROI?
It is the guarantee that we are getting the updates that we could backport into the system and we have a stable system to build on.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux since I have been with the company. They might have evaluated other solutions before I joined.
What other advice do I have?
To a colleague who is looking at open-source, cloud-based operating systems for Linux instead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I would ask, "Why?" We plan to stick with Red Hat as far as we see in the future, and we have no plans to change.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has not helped us to centralize development. It is not something we are looking to use it for.
We use Red Hat Insights very little. We work mostly in an offline environment. It is hard to use Red Hat Insights in an offline environment.
I would rate Red Hat Enterprise Linux a nine out of ten.
Gets the job done.
What do you like best about the product?
With 10+ years of adminstrating RHEL systems, it's what I'm most familiar with. I do very much enjoy being a Linux admin and being able to solve problems and create solutions for my developers. My team really should work to take advantage of the some of the new features of RHEL.
What do you dislike about the product?
The EPEL repository has been a challenge with some broken dependencies where some of the applications from there won't work properly. However, we use custom mirrors for security purposes, so it could be an issue with our repos, and not Red Hat itself. When I looked a year or so ago, I did not see a RHEL9 intro course as an option to familiarize myself with the new features as there was for RHEL8. That would have been very helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Consistent, familiar OS across multiple environments.
RHEL in the airplane Maintenance platform
What do you like best about the product?
As a whole i think is really stable, easy to support
What do you dislike about the product?
Would prefer more direct Red hat support
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Is helping support our Airplane Maintenance platform
Linux Enterprise system
What do you like best about the product?
stablity and performance, Enterprise support
What do you dislike about the product?
option like clone image that allow to boot system back in previous image
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Handling issue on urgent basis.
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What do you like best about the product?
Good features and support for the end users.
What do you dislike about the product?
High cost comparing to other Linux products.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RHEL is required for the usage of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Good OS for everything
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use to develop and maintain applications and services.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost of license is too high and hard for the company to allocate such a budget.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It simplifies a lot of development and troubleshooting
Redhat enables the user to gain focus on work without worrying about setting up the environment
What do you like best about the product?
RedHat provides all the programs and tooling to develop and monitor your software.
RedHat provides support when you need it. The RedHat documentation can be used 24/7 and is really helpfull!
RedHat provides support when you need it. The RedHat documentation can be used 24/7 and is really helpfull!
What do you dislike about the product?
RedHat requires a paid subscription to be able to start using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem of a operating system able to develop, test, deploy and integrate software and monitor the hardware used by this software without having to think about drivers and primary software solution (Network, firewall, service management)
Linux in a high demanding environment
What do you like best about the product?
What I like the best about RHEL is the stability that it provides for all the different use cases that you want to use RHEL for.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently there are no major dislikes about RHEL. The only thing is that it can be challenging to get the configuration you want.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
RHEL helps us solves the challenge to deliver a stable solution to our customers. May other solutions do not provide the stabillity that RHEL does.
Have been a RedHat SA for 12 years and a lifetime working with computers
What do you like best about the product?
The support ecosystem is great. The training opportunities are also excellent
What do you dislike about the product?
I have Robles keeping up with the pace of changes but that isn't just RHEL
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analyzing large amounts of data
Consistent, scalable, and geared toward security
What is our primary use case?
We have extensive contracts with Red Hat. We have it for the operating system. I manage the cloud deployment for GCP, and we have got Red Hat Satellite running in GCP. All of our VMs run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud. On-prem, we are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on our OpenShift cluster, and we have a supercomputer that has got 753 nodes with 50,000 cores running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We use a lot of the other products too.
How has it helped my organization?
There is consistency across the deployment. Generally, when you are looking to hire people, if you hire people who know Red Hat Enterprise Linux, they have a certain level of understanding that goes along with using the operating system.
It is easy to secure. It has a lot of built-in security features, and it is very stable, which is a big deal.
It makes it easier to have one team that deals with both on-prem and cloud because there is a uniform operating system and tooling. You do not have to have a set of admins where one knows one thing and the other one knows another.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has enabled us to centralize development. We are using the same platform everywhere. It is the same tooling, and everyone is working in the same system.
We are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for containerization projects. We are building out OpenShift on-prem right now on bare metal. We are running the hub cluster from GCP to spin up the bare metal cluster on-prem. We will hopefully be moving more and more things towards containerized workflows. We are running OpenShift, so it all runs on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
For security, SELinux is built in. It is out of the box. It is built towards building a secure system. We are in the process of working on compliance and getting this 800-171 certified. That is in process. They have regular security updates and lots of tools for rolling out updates. In that sense, there is a continuous upgrade path that is well-worn and fairly easy to maintain.
In terms of portability of applications and containers built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for keeping our organization agile, when it is in a container, it does not matter if you are running a UBI container or some other sort of container. If you have an environment that will run a container, you can throw a container in it, and it will run, so the portability does not belong to the OS at that point. It belongs to the containerization system.
What is most valuable?
It is consistent. It is geared toward security. I am used to it. I know only Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I do not know Ubuntu or any of the other flavors of Linux.
What needs improvement?
It is good. I do not have anything to improve for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but CentOS could be open-source again.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux since 2014. I have been using Red Hat since 1.2. It was probably 1998.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have a cluster with 50,000 cores. It is pretty scalable.
How are customer service and support?
Their customer service is good. We have a TAM. Our TAM is great. Without a TAM, it is hard to get new tickets through.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used many solutions. I have used many that predate Linux. For Linux, I have run Slackware, but that is just for fun. Professionally, it has all been Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
How was the initial setup?
Our deployment experience is good. For the things in the cloud, I use Satellite. I build images and deploy from images to the cloud. It is a mutable deployment chain rather than a standard upgrade path.
What about the implementation team?
We deploy it in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The vendor management takes care of that.
We have an enterprise agreement. From our department's standpoint, everything gets rolled into the enterprise agreement, which is great because we never see it.
What other advice do I have?
To a colleague who is looking at open-source, cloud-based operating systems for Linux instead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I would say, "Why would you look at something other than that?" I have built things on Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I was out of the industry for a while, and I came back, and I focused on Red Hat Enterprise Linux because it pays better. There are more standardized jobs in the area if you know Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The certification that you get from Red Hat means something quite specific.
I would rate Red Hat Enterprise Linux a nine out of ten.
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