We performed a comparison between OpenShift and VMware Tanzu Application Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Valuable features include auto-recreate of pod if pod fails; fast rollback, with one click, to previous version."
"The stability has been good."
"The security is good."
"Self-provisioning support saves a lot of time and unnecessary work from the system administrator who can use this time to run and monitor the infrastructure. For the developer, this means less time waiting for the provisioning and excellent flexibility for development, testing, and production. Also, in such systems it is easy for developers to monitor applications even after deployment."
"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."
"Security is also an important part of this solution. By default, things are running with limited privileges and securely confined to their own resources. This way, different users and projects can all use the same infrastructure."
"This solution is providing a platform with OOTB features that are difficult to build from scratch."
"The solution is integrated very well with a lot of other systems. Also, its GUI is very good."
"There are a lot of services available in VMware Tanzu Application Service, such as databases and application servers. You have everything you need in one application and you do not need to search outside of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to check the flow of all the different variants within our applications."
"Tanzu is easy to upgrade and scale, whether we're talking about horizontal or vertical scaling. It is as smooth as possible without any downtime. The platform maintenance, upgrading, and operations part is very smooth."
"The solution needs to support the new features in Kubernetes more quickly."
"The solution only offers support for one server."
"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."
"The product’s integration with Windows containers and other third-party products needs improvement."
"OpenShift could be improved if it were more accessible for smaller budgets."
"My team has found some bugs in OpenShift due to continuous integration, and this is an area for improvement in the platform. RedHat should fix the bugs. Another area for improvement in OpenShift is that upgrading clusters can be challenging, resulting in downtime. Application support also needs improvement in OpenShift because the platform doesn't support all applications in the cloud. I'd like upgraded storage in the next release of OpenShift, especially when I need to do a DR exercise. It would also be good if the platform allows mirroring with another cluster, or more portability in terms of moving applications to another cluster."
"We need some kind of a multi-cluster management solution from the Red Hat site."
"I want easier node management and more user-friendly scripts for installing master and worker nodes."
"The implementation is not easy, it is very complex and can take a day or two to complete."
"The solution's initial setup process was complex...The solution could benefit from improved customization and visibility for its users."
"Tanzu could provide more granular control over whatever networking is being done on the containers. I would also like to see a slightly more detailed view of application-level tracing. I'm referring to the connections between different microservices. If they added a service-matching feature, that would be helpful for the customers to build or be more effective."
"The solution is currently focused on VMware infrastructure and I would like to see more options made available."
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OpenShift is ranked 4th in PaaS Clouds with 53 reviews while VMware Tanzu Application Service is ranked 12th in PaaS Clouds with 4 reviews. OpenShift is rated 8.4, while VMware Tanzu Application Service is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of OpenShift writes "Provides us with the flexibility and efficiency of cloud-native stacks while enabling us to meet regulatory constraints". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Application Service writes "A solution with a good GUI and the ability to integrate with other systems seamlessly". OpenShift is most compared with Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift, whereas VMware Tanzu Application Service is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud. See our OpenShift vs. VMware Tanzu Application Service report.
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