We performed a comparison between HPE Ezmeral Container Platform and OpenShift Container Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware and others in Container Management."If customers focus on primary apps or if they are using them for data science, this is a good solution."
"OpenShift is a user-friendly container platform with a solid GUI that helps you follow what is going on and gives you an overview of all your clusters. It's more user-friendly than the Kubernetes itself. The interface helps you learn the platform and provides access to some features or specific comments."
"The auto scalability feature, which is based on smart agendas, determined from pre-prepared rules is the most valuable feature. You can also create different routes for deployment. Deployment types can be provided with an identifier, such as an ARB deployment. This really helped in rolling out releases without disrupting services for the end-users."
"Technical support is good; they are fast and reliable."
"Dashboards... give us all the details we need to see about the microservices."
"Red Hat's security throughout the stack and software supply chain is good. It is a lightweight operating system. You don't have to worry about the security patches on the system. You can update the entire environment with security patches, which is a nice feature."
"The platform is easy to scale as it supports Windows worker node."
"I think it's a pretty scalable tool...The solution's technical support has been pretty good."
"It’s user-friendly."
"The modernization in Ezmeral could be improved."
"We've encountered challenges when transitioning applications between these environments."
"OpenShift Container Platform needs to work on integrations."
"The initial setup can be hard."
"One area for improvement is that we can't currently run Docker inside a container, as it clashes with security consents. It would be good if we could change that."
"The setup process is not great."
"With the recent trend of cloud-native, fully managed serverless services, I don't see much documentation about how a customer should move from on-prem to the cloud, or what is the best way to do a lift-and-shift. Even if you are on AWS OCP, which is self-managed infra services, and you want to use the ROSA managed services, what is the best way to achieve that migration? I don't see documentation for these kinds of use cases from Red Hat."
"OpenShift has a pretty steep learning curve. It's not an easy tool to use. It's not only OpenShift but Kubernetes itself. The good thing is that Red Hat provides specific targeted training. There are five or six pieces of training where you can get certifications. The licenses for OpenShift are pretty expensive, so they could be cheaper because the competition isn't sleeping, and Red Hat must take that into account."
"OpenShift has certain restrictions in terms of managing the cluster when it's running on a public cloud. For example, identity and access management integration with the IM of AWS is quite difficult. It requires some open-source tools to integrate. This is one area where I always see room for improvement."
HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is ranked 16th in Container Management while OpenShift Container Platform is ranked 1st in Container Management with 36 reviews. HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is rated 7.0, while OpenShift Container Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HPE Ezmeral Container Platform writes "Easy to install with good support, but the deployment of applications could be simplified". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenShift Container Platform writes "Provides automation that speeds up our process by 30% and helps us achieve zero downtime". HPE Ezmeral Container Platform is most compared with Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Docker and Google Kubernetes Engine, whereas OpenShift Container Platform is most compared with Amazon EKS, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Amazon Elastic Container Service and Google Kubernetes Engine.
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