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Red Hat OpenShift pros and cons

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Pros & Cons summary

Red Hat OpenShift offers robust security with role-based access and strong context constraints, excelling in Jenkins integration for CI/CD workflows. Its self-provisioning and scalability with Kubernetes support efficient load handling. Cloud-agnostic, OpenShift aids multi-cloud environments without vendor lock-in. However, limited support for legacy applications, complex CLI configurations, integration challenges, high infrastructure costs, and weak documentation can deter adoption for those with smaller budgets.

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PROS

Red Hat OpenShift offers robust security and role-based access control, providing a secure environment for applications.
It provides excellent integration with Jenkins for continuous integration and development, enhancing DevOps practices.
Red Hat OpenShift allows for seamless scaling and uptime of applications, automatically adjusting resources during peak loads.
The platform supports a wide range of languages and environments, enabling developers to deploy applications easily with source-to-image features.
Red Hat OpenShift facilitates easy deployment and management of applications across multi-cloud environments, avoiding vendor lock-in.

CONS

Red Hat OpenShift needs improvement in legacy application support and integration with Bitbucket repositories.
There are concerns about the complexity of commands and configuration files.
Support for auto-scaling based on metrics other than CPU and memory is limited, hindering dynamic scaling capabilities.
Documentation and technical support require enhancements for better user assistance.
Red Hat OpenShift's infrastructure demands are expensive and complex, which can deter adoption.
 

Red Hat OpenShift Pros review quotes

JK
Dec 12, 2022
OpenShift offers more stability than Kubernetes.
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reviewer1563195 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 25, 2021
The solution provides a lot of flexibility to the application team for running their applications in the container platform, without needing to monitor the entire infrastructure all the time. It automatically scales and automatically self-heals. There is also a mechanism to alert the team in case it is over-committing or overutilizing the application.
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Markos Sellis - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 9, 2023
Its security is most valuable. It's by default secure, which is very important.
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Dec 7, 2022
OpenShift is based on Kubernetes and we try to use all the Kubernetes objects of OpenShift. We don't use features that are specific to OpenShift, except internal certificates for the services. The one feature that is missing from Kubernetes and that is really useful in OpenShift is the lifecycle of the cluster and the ease of installation. We use VMware and VMware integration internally with the OpenShift installer, which is very good. With OpenShift it's easy to spin up or scale out a cluster.
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JS
Mar 15, 2022
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.
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Balaji K R - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 9, 2023
In terms of implementation, OpenShift is very user-friendly, which is an advantage. We are using it along with GitLab for implementing CI/CD pipelines. That's a feature that other products also have, but in OpenShift, we find it good.
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AS
Apr 26, 2023
The most valuable feature of OpenShift is the security context constraint (SCC). The solution’s security throughout the stack is good. And security context constraints provide port-level security. It's a granular level of control, where you can give privileges to certain users to work on certain applications.
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reviewer1768764 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2022
The company had a product called device financing, where the company worked as a partner with Google. It allowed customers to take mobile phones on loan or via credit. When we migrated those services to OpenShift in February last year, we were able to sell over 100,000 devices in a single day, which was very good.
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Vikram Casula - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 14, 2022
Its interface is good. The other part is the seamless integration with the stack that I have. Because my stack is mostly of Red Hat, which is running on top of VMware virtualization, I have had no issues with integrating both of these and trying to install them. We had a seamless integration with the other non-Red Hat products as well.
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ES
Jan 29, 2024
OpenShift offers robust tools for monitoring application traffic, allowing us to analyze client requests and other business-related metrics.
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Red Hat OpenShift Cons review quotes

JK
Dec 12, 2022
The operators need a lot of improvement, with better integrations.
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reviewer1563195 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 25, 2021
Documentation and technical support could be improved. The product is good, but when we raise a case with support—say we are having an image issue—the support is not really up to the mark. It is difficult to get support... When we raise a case, their support people will hesitate to get on a call or a screen-sharing session. That is a major drawback when it comes to OpenShift.
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Markos Sellis - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 9, 2023
Autoscaling is a very unique feature, but it could be useful to have more options based on traffic statistics, for example, via Prometheus. So, there should be more ready solutions to autoscale based on specific applications.
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Dec 7, 2022
The solution needs to support the new features in Kubernetes more quickly.
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JS
Mar 15, 2022
The software-defined networking part of it caused us quite a bit of heartburn. We ran into a lot of problems with the difference between on-prem and cloud, where we had to make quite a number of modifications... They've since resolved it, so it's not really an issue anymore.
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Balaji K R - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 9, 2023
We want to see better alerting, especially in critical situations requiring immediate intervention. Until we go to the dashboard, it can be challenging to quickly recognize that there's an issue for us to deal with. Therefore, a popup of the event or a tweaked GUI to catch our attention when it's alerting would be a welcome change. Everything else is good. We don't need any additional features. From the operations perspective, as an administrator, there is nothing concerning.
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AS
Apr 26, 2023
One area for improvement is the documentation. They need to make it a little bit more user-friendly. Also, if you compare certain features and the installation process with Rancher, Rancher is simpler.
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reviewer1768764 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2022
The whole area around the hybrid cloud could be improved. I would like to deploy a Red Hat OpenShift cluster on-premise and on the cloud, then have Red Hat do the entire hybrid cloud management.
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Vikram Casula - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 14, 2022
One of the features that I've observed in Tanzu Mission Control is that I can manage multiple Kubernetes environments. For instance, one of my lines of business is using OpenShift OKD; another one wants to use Google Anthos, and somebody else wants to use VMware Tanzu. If I have to manage all these, Tanzu Mission Control is giving me the opportunity to completely manage all of my Kubernetes clusters, whereas, with OpenShift, I can only manage a particular area. I can't manage other Kubernetes clusters. I would like to have the option to manage all Kubernetes clusters with OpenShift.
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ES
Jan 29, 2024
An enhancement to consider for the future might involve incorporating a comprehensive solution for CI/CD tailored specifically for OpenShift.
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