Our primary use case for Red Hat OpenShift involves leveraging its container orchestration platform to enhance application modernization efforts. We host containerized applications and integrate GPU capabilities for optimized deployment of AI workloads.
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What do you like best about the product?
Running containers and its UI is so user friendly. its add-ons are helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
compatibility Issues with upgrades, and migrating apps at scale is tedious.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Container platform, its useful in running several containers.
Batteries included platform
What do you like best about the product?
Secure by default and batteries included
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes too much complexity and over engineered solutions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reducing people needed to manage k8s platform
Enables seamless workload management and supports enterprise-grade integration
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Simplifies transitioning from legacy systems to containerized environments, enabling better scalability and flexibility.
Provides GPU integration and infrastructure that support the deployment and scaling of data-intensive AI workloads.
Accelerates delivery pipelines with robust CI/CD features, helping teams bring applications to market faster.
What is most valuable?
Scalability and High Availability: OpenShift makes it easy to scale applications horizontally or vertically based on demand. Its high-availability capabilities ensure reliability and minimize downtime.
Built-in Security Features: Enhanced security tools like role-based access control (RBAC), network segmentation, and image vulnerability scans protect containerized applications.
Operator Framework: This simplifies the management of Kubernetes applications, automating tasks like installation, upgrades, and maintenance.
What needs improvement?
Simplified Networking: While OpenShift has advanced networking features, simplifying configurations for complex setups could make it more accessible to users with varying expertise levels
Resource Management Visibility: Improving the display of limits and quotas issues can help developers better manage resources and avoid bottlenecks.
Availability and capacity reporting
For how long have I used the solution?
We have approximately two years of experience with Red Hat OpenShift.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Red Hat OpenShift is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability of Red Hat OpenShift as an eight or nine out of ten. The platform has shown significant improvement with each new version, adding valuable features while making it easy to scale by adding or removing worker nodes and storage.
How are customer service and support?
Red Hat's technical support is good, and I would rate it a nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What about the implementation team?
We provide a range of services, acting as implementers, integrators, and partners with Red Hat OpenShift.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Red Hat OpenShift has a high price, and the licensing model can be prohibitive for smaller customers. Initially, licensing was per CPU, with a memory cap, but the price has doubled, making it difficult to justify for clients with smaller compute needs.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Not tested any other solution
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate Red Hat OpenShift a nine out of ten. Despite the higher price and needed improvements, OpenShift is an enterprise-grade solution that meets most business needs. I would rate the overall solution a 9 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Using OpenShift for Containerization, virtualization and deploying microservices
What do you like best about the product?
Using it in CI/CD DevOps lifecycles and achieving a real GitOps workflows by integrations with OpenShift GitOps based on the open source project Argo CD and OpenShift pipelines which is based on Tekton.
Ability to deploy microservices.
Ability to have containerization, virtualization and AI in a single platform.
Ease of network connections between the created pods either in the same project (namespaces) or different namespaces.
Ability to create Network Policies to isolate traffic and achieve better network security.
Ability to manage and secure multi-clusters using RHACM and RHACS as part for the Red Hat OpenShift Plus subscriptions.
Ability to deploy microservices.
Ability to have containerization, virtualization and AI in a single platform.
Ease of network connections between the created pods either in the same project (namespaces) or different namespaces.
Ability to create Network Policies to isolate traffic and achieve better network security.
Ability to manage and secure multi-clusters using RHACM and RHACS as part for the Red Hat OpenShift Plus subscriptions.
What do you dislike about the product?
OpenShift Virtualization still needs more enhancement to achieve the expected user experience of enterprise customers. Its UI needs to be enhanced with having the ability to do everything using its Web UI with no need to command line interface.
Large scale traffic intensive performance needs to be more clear for Telco Operators to achieve mass market use cases.
Better integration with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform needs to be added to automate tasks and enhance the DevOps CI/CD life cycle.
Exposing traffic to external networks need to be more easier and intuitive.
Large scale traffic intensive performance needs to be more clear for Telco Operators to achieve mass market use cases.
Better integration with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform needs to be added to automate tasks and enhance the DevOps CI/CD life cycle.
Exposing traffic to external networks need to be more easier and intuitive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automate the deployment of Microservices
Ability to achieve containerization and virtualization in a single platform with AI as well using the RHOAI product.
Ability to achieve containerization and virtualization in a single platform with AI as well using the RHOAI product.
Migration success with improved security and integration features
What is our primary use case?
I used OpenShift for the enterprise service cost system of a bank. We completed the migration of the bank's core banking system using OpenShift as the infrastructure. OpenShift acts as an orchestration platform and is used as our private cloud.
What is most valuable?
OpenShift is a spin-off of Kubernetes, built on top of Kubernetes. It has features that enhance security, ease of deployment, and service exposure compared to Kubernetes. It also provides good integration with GitOps and ArgoCD.
Additionally, OpenShift offers an easy-to-use graphical user interface for cluster management, making it more accessible for administrators.
What needs improvement?
I had to frequently upgrade my cluster due to OpenShift's rolling updates every six months, which I found to be excessive. Making updates a yearly occurrence could be beneficial. In terms of self-service for developers, there is room for improvement. The removal of Grafana and HPA from monitoring caused some issues. Observability could be more robust.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with OpenShift for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
OpenShift is very stable. I've had my cluster running for over four years, with issues caused more by poor monitoring or user error rather than the product itself.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
OpenShift is highly scalable, allowing us to manage thousands of pods effectively. We've implemented features like Horizontal Pod Autoscaling to adapt based on demand and integrated with F5 for high availability.
How are customer service and support?
Red Hat's technical support is responsive and effective. I had 50 to 59 support cases, many of which were resolved quickly depending on the urgency and expertise needed.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We moved from a legacy system to OpenShift due to its stability and capabilities provided by being backed by Red Hat.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward, especially on the cloud where it was set up quickly. The on-premises setup was more challenging due to additional configurations required.
What about the implementation team?
We handled the implementation internally with our team, which consisted of three engineers managing the analytics environment.
What was our ROI?
Moving to OpenShift resulted in increased system stability and reduced downtime, which contributed to operational efficiency. Although it increased costs, it helped modernize our infrastructure.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing for OpenShift includes support and licensing, which costs approximately $400.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We did not evaluate any other options aside from our legacy system before choosing OpenShift.
What other advice do I have?
If you have the skill and experience, Kubernetes can be used in production. OpenShift provides extra coverage in terms of security and management. Have a disaster recovery plan due to frequent updates.
I rate OpenShift at nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Automation boosts load management with promising growth in application modernization
What is our primary use case?
The main goal is the modernization of our applications. We have a few applications running on mainframes, which increase costs. We aim to modernize them on containers and microservices. We are shifting towards Kubernetes or Docker. As an enterprise client, the best solution is Red Hat OpenShift paired with support from Red Hat.
What is most valuable?
A valuable feature of Red Hat OpenShift is its ability to handle increased loads by automatically adding nodes. This automation impresses us and benefits us in managing loads on applications.
Although we have just started the transition and are moving slowly, OpenShift has been helpful in modernizing our applications, and it is a positive step forward.
What needs improvement?
The GUI could have more capabilities, particularly around virtualization. Some features are missing, such as storage migrations, when compared with VMware.
As we use both Red Hat virtualization and OpenShift together, differentiating between them becomes challenging. We should aim to include VMware-like capabilities to be competitive, especially considering cost factors.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with OpenShift for a year now.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Right now, I would rate the stability of OpenShift as eight out of ten. It performs well under load, providing the desired output.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Red Hat OpenShift scales excellently, with a rating of ten out of ten. It allows for scaling as much as needed, which is a significant advantage.
How are customer service and support?
We are currently dealing with both local support and Red Hat support, and they have been amazing.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were a VMware house for a long time, about ten to 15 years. However, the cost for VMware skyrocketed, making it hard to continue using it.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is complex.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The cost is a crucial factor, particularly with licensing. As things evolve, companies increasingly focus on cost-effectiveness.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Kubernetes, as an open-source option, is a significant competitor, particularly for those dealing with cost concerns.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate OpenShift nine out of ten overall.
It is suitable for any company, regardless of size. Smaller companies may opt for open-source solutions like Kubernetes. However, OpenShift offers comprehensive support, which is appealing to enterprise clients.
Containerized applications scale efficiently and has flexible pricing
What is our primary use case?
We are building an application that is a containerized application, and we are using Red Hat OpenShift for that application.
What is most valuable?
The concept of containers and scaling on demand is a feature I appreciate the most about Red Hat OpenShift.
Our solutions can easily scale to any number of users or requests if we are running on the cloud. The cloud also supports the pay-as-you-go model, so scalability is the biggest benefit.
What needs improvement?
They could work on the pricing model, making it more flexible and possibly lower.
For how long have I used the solution?
It has been almost one and a half years, maybe a little more.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability somewhere around eight to nine out of ten. It is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is easy to scale Red Hat OpenShift. The on-demand provisioning of pods and auto-scaling, whether horizontal or vertical, is the best part.
How are customer service and support?
I have been pretty happy in the past with getting support from Red Hat. We haven't had many cases regarding the support for OpenShift, however, we opened a couple of tickets, and they were satisfactorily answered.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We have also used the VMware environment in our setup.
How was the initial setup?
I would say the initial setup is not very complex, but moderately complex, similar to other containerized platforms like Kubernetes. Compared to what we are used to running, such as other virtualization platforms like VMware, it is moderately complex.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Red Hat can improve on the pricing part by making it more flexible and possibly on the lower side.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
For the very basic features, I can compare it with VMware Tanzu as we are running a basic setup at the moment.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Red Hat OpenShift somewhere around eight out of ten.
AI integration sounds like a good idea as AI is the future, and a lot of products in the market are benefiting from AI integration.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Flexible and simple to use
What do you like best about the product?
The solution provides flexible usage options and simple management.
What do you dislike about the product?
The first approach, if there is not much context, can be confusing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
First, approach the solution
Experience
What do you like best about the product?
The versatility it has in the world :)
What do you dislike about the product?
It is expensive for a student who wants to learn
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cloud easier to access
My experience with OpenShift
What do you like best about the product?
The perfect integration with Kubernetes as it adds many additional tools, making the management of containers and applications easier without much manual effort, and its enterprise support is a great plus for critical production projects. Additionally, security updates and advanced functionalities ensure stability.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its learning curve since, although it has many features, setting up OpenShift initially can be complicated, especially for users coming from pure Kubernetes or who have little experience with PaaS platforms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The complex management of containers and orchestration since Kubernetes is a powerful tool but difficult to handle without customization or advanced knowledge. OpenShift simplifies cluster management, automating tasks such as deployment, scaling, and monitoring of containers.
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