Openshift as on orchestration
What do you like best about the product?
It provides you with a centralized environment to orchestrate or scale up your applications.
Also, a framework independent container platform along with the complete tracking of your resource utilization of all of your deployed applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
As the community is so small, there is less documentation available.
Also, it is not compatible with every other operating system you can only have a minimal choice of selection between them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
While moving from hypervisor to redhat openshift. It was easy to migrate between the ESXi used virtual machines and openshift on-prem environment. As it is partnered with IBM, so we used IBM Cloud paks for NOI to migrate it.
With an excellent technical support in place, the tool needs to focus on improving its buggy interface
What is our primary use case?
I usually help companies design their environments, find workloads efficiencies, suggest best practices, and provide an overview of the environment, which involves consultation and a focused-oriented approach. I also deploy and develop solutions for companies. I do end-to-end deployment for companies.
OpenShift Container Platform is used by companies moving from their old monolithic environment to a microservices-oriented architecture. If a company wants to do a BAU sort of stuff, they already have OpenShift Container Platform, but they need someone to drive it or work on its day-to-day automation while looking at its integration with Ansible or Puppet.
What is most valuable?
People choose OpenShift Container Platform because it's an open-source and Red Hat Kubernetes product. Red Hat has made Kubernetes command-line oriented, obscure, and hard to learn. OpenShift is easier to learn for a newbie, especially for someone who has not used CLI. The support structure of OpenShift is pretty good and absolutely terrific. The bug fixes and patching capabilities, along with the whole ecosystem of OpenShift Container Platform, are very mature from a technical standpoint or from an enterprise standpoint. If you are a big company and invest a lot of money in certain solutions, you need and expect top-notch support and features of very high quality. OpenShift Container Platform is a very good way to get in started in this whole containerization journey for some companies because the underlying product is from Red Hat, which has its own benefits. The aforementioned factors play a role in the decision-making process of most companies.
What needs improvement?
I have only been working for two years on OpenShift Container Platform, and I have only seen good stuff so far. Hopefully, in the next two years, I will have a bit more hands-on experience to find out some pain points in the product.
There are no perfect tools. Many things can be done better in a product, but I don't know how to make it possible. Once I have done enough with the tool, I should be able to give you a bit more insight into the product's pain points.
The interface could be a bit more useful or better. The product's interface is a bit buggy.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenShift Container Platform for a couple of years. I am a consultant who specializes in Red Hat products. I am a Red Hat-certified engineer.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool is scalable enough because it is available across the clouds, like AWS or Azure. You can have the tool deployed on-premises too. I think it's a pretty scalable tool.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support has been pretty good. Red Hat offers the best support to its users.
What other advice do I have?
I am a person who is a bit more infrastructure-focused. JBoss is a middleware software, and I don't really work in that space. I am more into the underlying infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Containers and Kubernetes, and that sort of stuff, including OpenShift and OpenStack. I am not really into the application layer.
Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Best containerization platform for microservice application
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about openshift is it give us full customisation rights for creating and deploying any services. Also when a pod gets deleted or gets down it automatically creates a new pod or a replica of it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although its a great tool for many companies but still the PVC and external storage creates a mess with the application which causes failure in read and write acess.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is widely used tool but the main problem that it solves is the container management and its pod monitoring which helps us to create alerts and this makes every company to prevent from a huge losses
very good
What do you like best about the product?
Pods Management, routes, services, deployments, projects/ configpaths, oc cli command,cloudbees integration
What do you dislike about the product?
Cluster admin skills, is not my strong, not more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
release management lifecycle
Its flagship product is the OpenShift Container Platform
What do you like best about the product?
it is very easy to understand and helful in day to day work
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its security is most valuable. It's by default secure, which is very important.
Cloud native way : OpenShift
What do you like best about the product?
The additional functionalities that it offers, which are not there in Kubernetes, is what makes OpenShift different.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you are setting up OpenShift on bare metal servers it may get complicated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Whenever we encounter issues, the support from the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is excellent.
Review on openshift and it amazing container orchestration features
What do you like best about the product?
Redhat high support, easy integration with various solutions, high secured, more user friendly console
What do you dislike about the product?
Openshift gives exceptional features but their are many many open source solution like openshift.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing and maintaining high availability of the container with secure and vaible solution and support from redhat
More Secure and Developer Friendly
What do you like best about the product?
I like the UI the most about Openshift and also about integrations it comes with ( elastic, kibana) through operators.Documentation is also great to implement
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes configuring security related aspects to container can be difficult
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's solving security related issue which can be seen in normal kubernetes cluster.
Great automation and scalability
What do you like best about the product?
This service effectively delivers and maintains our infrastructure application on-premises and in the cloud. Multi-cluster management and providing the best security features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Required more depth in the product documentation. Disaster recovery services are costly. Queues and API manager integration need more improvement. The support service is not good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The stability and scalability make our system more productive.
A Review of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
What do you like best about the product?
I highly recommend considering Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It offers a powerful and feature-rich Kubernetes-based solution for managing containerized applications. It provides an enterprise-ready environment with automation, scaling, and deployment features. Red Hat's commitment to open-source ensures continuous improvement and support from a vibrant community. While there may be a learning curve, the extensive documentation and training resources available make it manageable. Overall, OpenShift is a reliable and scalable option for container platform needs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning Curve: It can have a steeper learning curve compared to other platforms, requiring additional time and effort to fully grasp.
Resource Requirements: Running OpenShift at scale may demand substantial hardware resources, such as CPU, memory, and storage.
Cost: As an enterprise-grade solution, OpenShift comes with licensing fees and support costs, which organizations with limited budgets should consider.
Limited Customization: Some users have expressed limitations in terms of customization options, requiring extra effort or workarounds for specific customizations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform solves challenges related to containerized application deployment, scalability, lifecycle management, security, collaboration, and DevOps efficiency. It benefits organizations by streamlining deployment, ensuring scalability and performance, simplifying application lifecycle management, enhancing security and compliance, promoting collaboration, and providing enterprise-grade support.
