We compared OpenShift and Pivotal Cloud Foundry based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
OpenShift and Pivotal Cloud Foundry both offer scalable, secure, and user-friendly platforms with efficient automation capabilities. While OpenShift excels in customer service and integration options, Pivotal Cloud Foundry is praised for its flexibility and extensive documentation. However, OpenShift users have raised concerns about the complex interface and setup process, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry users have highlighted scalability and support as areas for improvement. Both platforms have proven to be profitable investments with fair pricing structures.
Features: OpenShift stands out with its robust scalability, efficient containerization, strong security measures, extensive automation capabilities, and seamless integration. Pivotal Cloud Foundry excels in its scalability, flexibility, strong automation, simplified development process, and extensive documentation and resources.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for OpenShift is reported to be smooth and hassle-free, with no negative comments from users. In comparison, Pivotal Cloud Foundry also has reasonable setup costs, according to user feedback. Both products have straightforward and easily manageable licensing processes., OpenShift users have reported it as a profitable investment, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry has yielded a positive ROI with valuable features, scalability, streamlined processes, and increased productivity.
Room for Improvement: OpenShift could benefit from improvements in its user interface, initial setup process, error handling, customization options, and integrations. Pivotal Cloud Foundry would benefit from enhancements in scalability, documentation, support resources, features, flexibility, and performance optimization.
Deployment and customer support: Based on the user feedback, it appears that the implementation process for OpenShift can vary, with some users reporting spending separate timeframes on deployment and setup. In contrast, feedback for Pivotal Cloud Foundry suggests that these terms may refer to the same period, and the duration can range from weeks to months depending on specific circumstances., OpenShift's customer service received praise for its promptness, effectiveness, and expertise. Customers deemed the experience exceptional. Pivotal Cloud Foundry's service was also praised for being responsive, helpful, and reliable with knowledgeable and friendly representatives. Overall, customers seem satisfied with both services.
The summary above is based on 41 interviews we conducted recently with OpenShift and Pivotal Cloud Foundry users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The developers seem to like the source-to-image feature. That makes it easy for them to deploy an application from code into containers, so they don't have to think about things. They take it straight from their code into a containerized application. If you don't have OpenShift, you have to build the container and then deploy the container to, say, EKS or something like that."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is the great customer service and the ability for our team to get assistance when we need it."
"This solution helps us to account for peak seasons involving higher demand than usual. It also gives us confidence in the security of our overall systems."
"The most valuable feature is the high availability for the applications."
"What I like best about OpenShift is that it can reduce some of the costs of having multiple applications because you can just move them into small container applications. For example, applications don't need to run for twenty days, only to be used up by Monday. Through OpenShift, you can move some of the small applications into any cloud. I also find the design of OpenShift good."
"Overall, the solution's security throughout the stack and software supply chain is excellent."
"The security is good."
"The most valuable feature of OpenShift is the containers."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."
"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."
"We find its stability and scalability valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."
"Stability is not a concern with this product."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier."
"I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities."
"The latest 4.0 version of OpenShift disabled a few of the features we previously made use of, although this wasn't a huge deal."
"Latency and performance are two areas of concern in OpenShift where improvements are required."
"The interface could be simplified a bit more."
"OpenShift could improve by providing the ability to integrate with public cloud platforms. This way we can easily use the services that these platforms offer. For instance, Amazon AWS. However, all the three major hyper-scalers solutions offer excellent DevOps and CI/CD tooling. If there was an easy way to integrate with them it would be beneficial. We need a way to easily integrate with the monitoring and dashboard services that they provide."
"OpenShift could be improved if it were more accessible for smaller budgets."
"There have been some issues with security, in particular, that we had to address. At times they make it “clunky." I am quite confident these parameters will appear in the next releases. They have been reported as bugs and are actually in process."
"I think that OpenShift has too many commands for running services from the CLI, and the configuration files are a little complicated."
"Some of the storage services and integrations with third-party tools should be made possible."
"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."
"Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
"It should offer more security features."
"I'd like to see a larger service offering."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."
"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."
"In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases, and improve the deployment experience."
"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."
OpenShift is ranked 4th in PaaS Clouds with 53 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. OpenShift is rated 8.4, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of OpenShift writes "Provides us with the flexibility and efficiency of cloud-native stacks while enabling us to meet regulatory constraints". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". OpenShift is most compared with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry. See our OpenShift vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.
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