Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Reviews

Our company supports most of the banks in India. We use four kinds of solutions broadly categorized as UPI and IPI deployed on AWS called ROSA and on Azure called ARO.

The most valuable features of OpenShift are the advanced cluster manager and advanced cluster security with the StackRox.

OpenShift needs to improve their container storage. In the next release of OpenShift I would also like to see simplification of Calico BGP with the container network and integration with MinIO, Portworx, and Rubrix.

I have been using OpenShift Container Platform since 2016.

OpenShift is a stable solution.

The platform is easy to scale as it supports Windows worker node.

Technical support at Red Hat is good.

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The initial setup of OpenShift is straightforward.

When I compare the platform's deployment to other solutions like Kubernetes, OpenShift is good. When comparing with Rancher or VMware Tanzu, OpenShift is better than both. Specifically, the support and documentation of OpenShift is better than VMware.

I would rate OpenShift an 8 out of 10 overall.

We use OpenShift Container Platform for on-premises services.

More tools are available in OpenShift Container Platform to maintain and manage the clusters.

OpenShift Container Platform is an expensive solution, and its pricing could be improved.

I have been using OpenShift Container Platform for four to five years.

OpenShift Container Platform is a stable solution.

I rate OpenShift Container Platform a nine out of ten for scalability. There are many users using it in our organization.

The initial setup of OpenShift Container Platform was straightforward.

OpenShift Container Platform’s deployment takes a couple of minutes.

We have seen a return on investment with OpenShift Container Platform. The solution is worth the money.

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.

Overall, I rate OpenShift Container Platform a nine out of ten.

The way our consultancy works is we have a number of internal products which we use, such as testing systems. We deploy our applications in scientific products and take advantage of automation. We are focusing on automation development for our customers. 

Previously we were using different automation methods. This product, however, is great. With OpenShift, you're able to achieve significantly higher deployments. There are more deployments per month on OpenShift. At the same time, it's all the tower application availability issues on offer that are great. Now, OpenShift follows us to make sure that all our applications are always highly available.

Openshift is a very developer-friendly product. 

The self-service allows us to deliver applications fast to production.

The functionality is quite good, even though we may only use 30% of it.

The solution has pretty good features overall. I can't recall if there are any that are lacking.

The pricing is quite high. It would be nice if they could make it more competitive.

The solution needs to introduce open ID connect integration for role-based access control.

I've been using the solution for maybe four years at this point.

This is a rather new product. It's only been on the market for 1.5 years, and therefore has a lot of growing to do. While the earlier versions were not as stable, we find version four to be very good and much improved.

You can scale the solution, however, we don't have that much money and therefore we aren't really scaling it.

We have architects, engineers, DevOps, and developers on the solution. We're a pretty small company of about 50, and maybe 40 users are using Openshift internally.

If anything, we would have to go to Red Hat to get technical support, however, we've been able to solve our own problems internally. Therefore, we've never really used technical support. I can't speak to their level of responsiveness or knowledge.

While it's completely different, we did use Ansible as a way of automation and to deploy applications, for example, on top of just using Linux and additional layers of stuff. Openshift is just a better product and more geared towards what we need.

We started to use an Openshift a long time ago. Right now, it's difficult to say if it's straightforward or complex as every version is completely different. Once we were with Openshft version three, it was pretty easy to install. As was version four.

However, then it will be installed inside your infrastructure on the public clouds of endpoints.

The solution is very costly. However, you do get good value for the price, and therefore we're willing to pay even if the cost is high.

We are a Red Hat partner. We're a consultancy firm.

We started using OpenShift version two, then we migrated to OpenShift's version three and now we are on a complete version four.

We tend to use all deployment models - on-premises, public and private clouds, and hybrid options.

If a company is considering the solution, I would advise that they maybe start working with some guys who have experience with the product. It will be much more work otherwise, and you can save time by avoiding POCs. 

Overall, I would rate the solution ten out of ten. Even though the pricing is high, I knew what I was getting into, and for me, for the value we get from the product, it's worth the cost.

I mainly use Container Platform for hosting and orchestrating our internal application.

The best feature is the management for the port life cycle, which automatically recycles, pulls, and scales up and down based on needs and requests.

Container Platform could be improved if we could aggregate logs out of the box instead of having to do it through integrations with other products.

I've been using OpenShift Container Platform for a year.

Container Platform is scalable. 

The initial setup was easy, and deployment on the cloud took around an hour.

We implemented using a vendor team.

The pricing is a bit more expensive than expected - it's moderately expensive.

We also evaluated open-source Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu, and VMware.

I would advise anybody thinking of implementing OpenShift Container Platform to get trained before using it because there are some tricks you need to learn hands-on. I would rate this solution seven out of ten.

The complexity of the installation could be reduced. While we got the necessary support, the instructions could be clearer.

We started using OpenShift recently.

It is quite stable.

In terms of scalability, I don't see any challenges.

Technical support is good; they are fast and reliable.

The initial setup is complex, but we got the necessary support. So, there were no major issues or challenges.

The price is slightly on the higher side. It is something that can be worked on because most of the businesses now have margins.

You should map the requirements of the solution that you're looking for before jumping into a container platform, but if you are looking for a container platform, OpenShift is a good option. I would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.

We are using it for a payment system.

We run business-critical applications on OpenShift. It is very good.

Since we had limited time for our project, this solution was very helpful in getting us into production within a short time frame.

The management console is easy to use. You can easily install some components with OpenShift Operator. 

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.

It has an option to install OpenShift without connecting it to the Internet. We tried this, but it was very hard. We couldn't manage to use that option. We wanted to use it offline for installations, updates, upgrades, etc., but we didn't find the offline installation and updates easy. This could be better.

We have been using it for two months, since December, with an important project.

I find the platform stable.

It is scalable. The problem is the license.

It is used not only with our company, but with some banks.

New banks or another organization may come to use the product going forward. 

We use the technical support, but not much. Some of my friends use it more in-depth. I think it is not so great, but useful. By starting at Level 1 to Level 2 to Level 3, accessing the right person sometimes takes us time.

We were previously using a container platform with Onsite, but we were using it for different applications, like servers.

We went with OpenShift because we knew that we already had Linux systems running on Red Hat and were getting support from Red Hat, e.g., we are using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.

The initial setup was not complicated. It has many documents. Since we bought in a company, they had some predefined documents, which was helpful for us. 

It took two to three weeks to do the initial five online installations, then we installed three different clusters in one week.

We had a step-by-step plan that we followed to implement this solution. We installed the machine, then the images on the machine. We ran them after the cluster was up, then we installed the Operators.

We worked with a local company during installation. Those guys did the installation. They did not have in-depth product knowledge, but they were helpful. I think the company was a partner of Red Hat.

Take some time to understand and learn the product before starting it.

Our Red Hat products integrate well in our company. 

My company has a background with Red Hat. The people from our company had established relationships with Red Hat.

I would rate this product as an eight out of 10.

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.

OpenShift's documentation could be better. It's difficult to document everything you need in a specific use case. You have to seek some support or spend a few minutes trying to figure out what's going on.

Another thing that bugs me is that they removed the software in NFS storage. I don't understand why because this is a common type of storage. I am having problems with that, so I wish they would put it back. 

I've been dealing with the OpenShift Container Platform for about two years. I am not an end-user, but I develop solutions with it. I test, make proofs of concept, and design solutions that run on top of it, like Cloud Pak.

OpenShift has great technicians who work with developers. It's nice to have access to real product developers when you contact tech support.

I rate OpenShift Container Platform eight out of 10. It's an excellent solution. It might be a bit more difficult to maintain than some solutions, but it brings you a lot of value. 

OpenShift Container Platform could improve by having better integration.

I have been using the OpenShift Container Platform for approximately one month.

The solution is stable. However, it depends on the integrations of the solution on how stable it will be, such as what tools you integrate with.

I have not contacted support.

The license to use the OpenShift Container Platform is free. If you are capable with Java you can modify it.

OpenShift Container Platform is an open-source solution. My advice to others is to get to the basics, the similar the better.

I rate OpenShift Container Platform a six out of ten.