The functions and features in Azure Red Hat OpenShift that I have found most valuable are that it is a platform that is baked into Azure. Since it is baked into Azure, it is managed operation by Azure, which takes out the complexity of the infrastructure management and day two operations when compared with on-premise OpenShift. Azure Red Hat OpenShift helps to streamline my application development process. When I compare Azure Red Hat OpenShift with ROSA, which is on AWS, Azure Red Hat OpenShift uses the Azure DevOps pipeline, while ROSA uses the AWS GitLab pipeline. My team has used both for application deployment and application release, and we are not using the native features of OpenShift but rather the DevOps feature of Azure, which is one of the unique things about Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Azure Red Hat OpenShift is integrated well. Prodevans, my company, has built two marketplace products on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, meaning we have also certified our own product on Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Azure Red Hat OpenShift does help to reduce release cycle time. That is natively built into Red Hat OpenShift, which has the least dependency on Azure, but since we are using the Azure pipeline and the DevOps pipeline, it is well integrated.

