Azure Red Hat OpenShift Reviews

Most clients working on container technology want to move to the public cloud. With container technology, they can deploy Apache on Azure, AWS, GCP, or any other cloud platform.

The best part of OpenShift is you can migrate any OpenShift provider's container to any platform. If you want to migrate your containers from Azure to AWS or from on-premises to Azure, you can do so easily.

We can build a complete CI/CD pipeline on Azure using Azure tools or third-party tools. Azure Red Hat OpenShift does not include all CI/CD pipeline tools, so third-party software can be used. Red Hat builds some of the CI/CD pipelines sold on the Red Hat Platforms, which are used for any cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Red Hat should provide this because we don't want to use third-party tools like Jenkins or other automation platforms.

I have been using Azure Red Hat OpenShift for one and a half years. We are using V4.12 of the solution.

I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.

We cater this solution to high-end customers.

I rate the solution’s scalability a ten out of ten.

We have to wait sometime for the support engineer for specific issues.

Neutral

The initial setup is not easy or not difficult. Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a complex platform, but it is also very powerful. We need to use some Azure resources, such as certificates and routes, to run it effectively. This means that we have some dependencies on the Azure platform.

Deployment takes two and three hours to complete.

I rate the initial setup a six or seven out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

The product is affordable.

I rate the product’s pricing a three out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We use OpenShift on Azure as IaaS.

The cost of licensing per core is very expensive. I am in the process of migrating to AKS to reduce costs.

They need to improve the core licensing model.

It's expensive compared to a similar product, and we've only used some of its features on Kubernetes. Therefore, we are evaluating whether we will consider the possibility of replacing OpenShift, but nothing is certain yet.

We evaluated Rancher and AKS, and in the comparison, AKS proved to be more suitable for the company's needs.

Based on my experience, I would rate it a seven out of ten. It is a good product.