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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform pros and cons

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PROS

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform offers high availability, scalability, and security, making it powerful for businesses.
The platform integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines, offering robust automation and deployment capabilities.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides centralized control of container resources, which enhances productivity and reduces deployment time.
Autoscaling and built-in resiliency allow for efficient infrastructure management and potentially lower costs.
Advanced cluster management and security features are highly valuable, supporting both virtualized and containerized environments.

CONS

The support costs for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform are considered too high.
Integration capabilities need improvement as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform has restrictions and challenges in certain environments.
Setting up Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform locally can be complex, requiring RHL Linux and facing installation challenges.
Documentation needs to be enhanced, particularly for transitions from on-prem to cloud environments and quick guides for users.
Pricing is seen as too expensive, prompting calls for a more competitive cost structure.
 

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Pros review quotes

Marouane - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at MISSASERVICE
Jul 8, 2026
The powerful thing about Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is for deploying how to install our application, how to deploy it, and it is easy to work with this platform to do DevOps or CI/CD.
SS
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 8, 2026
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to check logs whenever an error occurs, or a pod is in a pending state or in a crash loop back error.
ST
Open Shift Lead at Al Rajhi Bank
Jan 15, 2026
The benefits I have seen from using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform include that it provides a seamless application business, and the business is never going to be impacted because deployments and upgrades can be completed without impacting the real business.
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Rifat Rahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect & CEO at Tirzok Private Limited
Aug 19, 2025
If I summarize the main benefit of this solution for my customers, it is the management of both virtualized and containerized environments, where the containerization will be more focused in the future.
NM
Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa
May 14, 2025
I definitely recommend Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to other organizations due to its high availability, security, ease of use, and all the built-in features it offers.
Prasad Gupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at IBM Software Labs
Sep 26, 2024
It automates rolling out new features, packaging the code, conducting security scans, and deploying to OpenShift.
MS
Technical Lead for OpenShift Platform at ODC-Noord
May 9, 2024
For us, the fully automated upgrades are valuable. We have to maintain the clusters in production. For us, it is very important that it does not take too much time to manage all the clusters and do life cycle management and upgrades.
Mallepoola Sravan Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer I at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 24, 2024
The most valuable features of OpenShift include its advanced security, integrated DNS system, built-in pipeline management with Tekton, enhanced networking routes, and dedicated platforms for DataOps and MLOps.
Vlado Velkovski - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Architect at KIBS
Dec 23, 2022
The stack in the software supply chain is one of the main reasons that we use OpenShift. When I came to this company, we bought hardware from IBM named Bluemix, and they used ICP, which stands for IBM Cloud Private.
Anand-Awasthi - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at IBM
Aug 2, 2024
It has been a good solution to deploy all containerized applications.
 

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Cons review quotes

Marouane - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at MISSASERVICE
Jul 8, 2026
It is a little bit complicated to set up Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on a local server.
SS
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 8, 2026
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform can be improved by adding more features such as viewing things in dashboard mode, which would be helpful.
ST
Open Shift Lead at Al Rajhi Bank
Jan 15, 2026
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform needs some improvements, for example, in upgrade time, as normally, an extended upgrade method should be allowed, but sometimes if anyone clicks twice, it tries to upgrade the second level and gets stuck, so that area should be enhanced.
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Rifat Rahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect & CEO at Tirzok Private Limited
Aug 19, 2025
Regarding return on investment, my customers have not yet seen value in money while or since implementing the Container Platform.
NM
Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa
May 14, 2025
There are some occasions when support from Red Hat is not what we expect; in instances of outages, it sometimes takes a substantial amount of time to resolve issues.
Prasad Gupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at IBM Software Labs
Sep 26, 2024
The interface has numerous UI bugs that need addressing.
MS
Technical Lead for OpenShift Platform at ODC-Noord
May 9, 2024
We are not big customers of Red Hat, but sometimes, we have severe bugs. We are very innovative, and sometimes, we have to wait for a long time to get proper attention. Red Hat should improve on that.
Mallepoola Sravan Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer I at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 24, 2024
Setting up OpenShift locally can be challenging, particularly because it requires RHL Linux and has specific restrictions.
Vlado Velkovski - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Architect at KIBS
Dec 23, 2022
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.
Anand-Awasthi - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at IBM
Aug 2, 2024
One challenge is that sometimes it may be difficult to find the answers to your questions if you are not a Red Hat customer.