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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat Limited | 4.18 20250122-0Linux/Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Very complex to integrate, but provides fast container deployment
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
It is very lightweight and can be deployed very fast, especially when it comes to containers. It can spin the web and the DB very fast, so we don't need to deploy the server and the VM. Everything is in the container.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement with integration.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution has good scalability. I rate the scalability of the solution a nine out of ten. There is also room for improvement in the scalability of the solution.
One or two users are using OpenShift in our company, and we hope to increase the usage.
How are customer service and support?
The support is very good. Their response and technical skills are good.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have used Docker before. We shifted to OpenShift because we were using Docker for self-learning.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is complex. The solution is deployed on-premises. However, it can also be deployed on the cloud.
To deploy OpenShift, first, you must get the installer and then prepare a minimum requirement. You will need a key physical server as a load balancer. OpenShift has a lot of roles in its nodes, with worker nodes and master nodes. Since different nodes have their role, the setup is complex. You will need to set up ten or 12 nodes like this. After you have set up all the nodes, you need to do the integration and set up OpenShift.
It takes a month or a year to deploy it.
What about the implementation team?
The deployment can be done in-house. There are two people required for maintenance.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is expensive for licensing. The customer has to pay for the license.
What other advice do I have?
Before choosing OpenShift, I advise you to know your application landscape very well. Only then will you know if you require OpenShift. If you are unclear about your application environment, layout, and structure, it is potentially not a good idea because you don't understand it.
Overall, I would rate the solution a five out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Empowers cloud transition and integration, offering strong usability and centralized consultation
What is our primary use case?
The principal use case of the platform is the transition and migration to the cloud. The second one is the modernization of our integration platforms.
What is most valuable?
The usability and the developer experience. The platform has a centralized consultant that is easy to use for our development, operations and security teams.
What needs improvement?
The price needs to be improved in OpenShift Container Platform.
When I choose this, the product is the first factor that we have to make a long analysis to compare the real cost for the other services. However, price is high.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenShift Container Platform for five years. We started with OpenShift Container Platform and now we have OpenShift Container Platform tools.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the product’s stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the tool’s scalability a nine out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The solution is difficult to set up because of the limitations of the premises.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the product a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
With an excellent technical support in place, the tool needs to focus on improving its buggy interface
What is our primary use case?
I usually help companies design their environments, find workloads efficiencies, suggest best practices, and provide an overview of the environment, which involves consultation and a focused-oriented approach. I also deploy and develop solutions for companies. I do end-to-end deployment for companies.
OpenShift Container Platform is used by companies moving from their old monolithic environment to a microservices-oriented architecture. If a company wants to do a BAU sort of stuff, they already have OpenShift Container Platform, but they need someone to drive it or work on its day-to-day automation while looking at its integration with Ansible or Puppet.
What is most valuable?
People choose OpenShift Container Platform because it's an open-source and Red Hat Kubernetes product. Red Hat has made Kubernetes command-line oriented, obscure, and hard to learn. OpenShift is easier to learn for a newbie, especially for someone who has not used CLI. The support structure of OpenShift is pretty good and absolutely terrific. The bug fixes and patching capabilities, along with the whole ecosystem of OpenShift Container Platform, are very mature from a technical standpoint or from an enterprise standpoint. If you are a big company and invest a lot of money in certain solutions, you need and expect top-notch support and features of very high quality. OpenShift Container Platform is a very good way to get in started in this whole containerization journey for some companies because the underlying product is from Red Hat, which has its own benefits. The aforementioned factors play a role in the decision-making process of most companies.
What needs improvement?
I have only been working for two years on OpenShift Container Platform, and I have only seen good stuff so far. Hopefully, in the next two years, I will have a bit more hands-on experience to find out some pain points in the product.
There are no perfect tools. Many things can be done better in a product, but I don't know how to make it possible. Once I have done enough with the tool, I should be able to give you a bit more insight into the product's pain points.
The interface could be a bit more useful or better. The product's interface is a bit buggy.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenShift Container Platform for a couple of years. I am a consultant who specializes in Red Hat products. I am a Red Hat-certified engineer.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool is scalable enough because it is available across the clouds, like AWS or Azure. You can have the tool deployed on-premises too. I think it's a pretty scalable tool.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support has been pretty good. Red Hat offers the best support to its users.
What other advice do I have?
I am a person who is a bit more infrastructure-focused. JBoss is a middleware software, and I don't really work in that space. I am more into the underlying infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Containers and Kubernetes, and that sort of stuff, including OpenShift and OpenStack. I am not really into the application layer.
Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Reliable storage solution
What do you like best about the product?
It provides seamless integration with Red Hat OpenShift making storage persistent for containers.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a complicated software and does require a certain level of expertise to start with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is a proven solution for us when it comes to data storage of ephemeral containers. Also the support from Red Hat team is also good.
More tools available to maintain and manage clusters
What is our primary use case?
We use OpenShift Container Platform for on-premises services.
What is most valuable?
More tools are available in OpenShift Container Platform to maintain and manage the clusters.
What needs improvement?
OpenShift Container Platform is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenShift Container Platform for four to five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
OpenShift Container Platform is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate OpenShift Container Platform a nine out of ten for scalability. There are many users using it in our organization.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of OpenShift Container Platform was straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
OpenShift Container Platform’s deployment takes a couple of minutes.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment with OpenShift Container Platform. The solution is worth the money.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
OpenShift Container Platform is highly-priced. Besides the license fee, you must have a dedicated set of resources to maintain and manage OpenShift Container Platform.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I rate OpenShift Container Platform a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Redhat
What do you like best about the product?
Very useful toll and user friendly interface help to companies
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning skills required for this tool and expensive
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Time saving
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes
redhat storage
What do you like best about the product?
multi-cloud portability and excellent support
What do you dislike about the product?
cache flush problem since such applications typically use direct I/O
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy container storage for developers with limited storage expertise
Very good software for deployment management of containers
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to use this in any environment is easier than the competitors. Migrating containers from on-premises to the cloud provders is very beneficial to the support team.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a new operating system for our administrators since we typically use VMware and Microsoft in our data centers. So it will be a steep learning curve but does appear to have some good benefits for the longer term.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing our administrators with a one-stop-shop for their data center environments that plays well into a software development lifecycle that is container focus.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ensure that you receive enough training if you are not used to using Red Hat software in your environment.
Very Likely
What do you like best about the product?
The Automation and the RedHat Support are best.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing , I didn't feel anything which I dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can build my own Storage as a Service kind of a thing.
Comprehensive solution for container storage in one place
What do you like best about the product?
Administration tools available for admin tasks, I can perform some complex tasks in just one click from the administration dashboard, compared to others tool this just its great.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some integration issues with other technologies can be a little bit confused, due to poor documentation in some cases, and it can take more time than expected to get things done.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am developing and implementing applications in less time than we used to do it before. We are delivering solutions just in time the market needs it. We are doing more with less.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great storage container solution. I recommend it.
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