Senior Kubernetes Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2022-12-07T02:23:00Z
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.
VP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
2022-10-05T10:34:09Z
Oct 5, 2022
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.
Head Of Infrastructure & Cloud ops at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2022-09-14T10:05:28Z
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.
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 scalability of OpenShift combined with Kubernetes is good. At least from the software standpoint, it becomes quite easy to handle the scalability through configuration. You need to constantly monitor the underlying infrastructure and ensure that it has adequate provisioning. If you have enough infrastructure, then managing the scalability is quite easy which is done through configuration.
Executive Head of Department - M-PESA Tech at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2022-01-26T12:05:00Z
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.
Cloud Native Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-04-25T12:17:00Z
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.
TechOps Engineer - Middleware & Containers specialist at EBRC -European Business Reliance Centre
Real User
2018-04-02T10:24:00Z
Apr 2, 2018
We are able to operate client’s platform without downtime during security patch management each month and provide a good SLA (as scalability for applications is processed during heavy client website load, automatically).
System Installation Solution Department Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
MSP
2018-04-02T10:24:00Z
Apr 2, 2018
I love to automate everything and OpenShift was been born for that. It takes care of the network layer itself and I don't need to dive into it; I can work on a top level. Our project has numerous services designed to run in Docker containers, and we have run almost all pieces in OpenShift.
Red Hat OpenShift offers a robust, scalable platform with strong security and automation, suitable for container orchestration, application deployment, and microservices architecture.Designed to modernize applications by transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-native environments, Red Hat OpenShift provides powerful CI/CD integration and Kubernetes compatibility. Its security features, multi-cloud support, and source-to-image functionality enhance deployment flexibility. While the GUI...
OpenShift facilitates DevOps practices and improves CI/CD workflows in terms of stability compared to Jenkins.
It is a stable platform.
The solution is easy to scale.
I am impressed with the product's security features.
It's cloud agnostic and the containerization and security features are outstanding.
Its security is most valuable. It's by default secure, which is very important.
Two stand-out features are the security model and value-add features that don't exist in Upstream Kubernetes.
OpenShift offers more stability than Kubernetes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We have found the cluster management function to be very good with this product.
The most valuable feature of OpenShift is the containers.
The initial setup is simple, and OpenShift is open-source, so it's easy to install on any cloud platform.
The stability has been good.
The security features of OpenShift are strong when in use of role-based access.
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 scalability of OpenShift combined with Kubernetes is good. At least from the software standpoint, it becomes quite easy to handle the scalability through configuration. You need to constantly monitor the underlying infrastructure and ensure that it has adequate provisioning. If you have enough infrastructure, then managing the scalability is quite easy which is done through configuration.
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.
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.
Provides support throughout the whole platform.
The most valuable feature is the high availability for the applications.
This solution is providing a platform with OOTB features that are difficult to build from scratch.
We are able to operate client’s platform without downtime during security patch management each month and provide a good SLA (as scalability for applications is processed during heavy client website load, automatically).
I love to automate everything and OpenShift was been born for that. It takes care of the network layer itself and I don't need to dive into it; I can work on a top level. Our project has numerous services designed to run in Docker containers, and we have run almost all pieces in OpenShift.