Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

"When it comes to the Linode Kubernetes Engine and the amount of automation it provides, it's awesome, it's a game-changer. If a process randomly dies, it could take me a while to notice that it has died, if I haven't set up monitoring. With Kubernetes, it will just restart itself using Heartbeats."

"The fact that you can get a person on the phone has just been fantastic."

"The fact that you can do any Linux distribution is great. You can try out any Linux distribution, even some of the more obscure ones, and they are always keeping them up-to-date. As soon as a new distribution comes out, it is on the platform pretty much the same day, which I find really helpful."

"The creation of instances is very good, as is their interface which is not complex and is easy to use. With the dashboard it is easy to create a new instance and add your favorite things. You can add Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS, or any flavor of operating system. You can select the RAM for your instance as well."

"For small businesses and people who have some technical skills and are good with Linux command line, this solution is great. I love Linode because it is very fast. Whereas, the same configuration on Azure and AWS will be so slow. The best thing is that their pricing and speed are great."

"Service availability is the most valuable feature. It gives every user 100 percent uptime."

"The cloud management panel is nice."

"The most valuable feature is the static IP address, which has been very helpful for being able to log into the same address over the course of more than a decade."

"The software is user-friendly and straightforward to use, which is favorable to a developer."

"The initial setup process is easy."

"The architecture is the best. The solution is scalable if you are on a container-based solution."

"It has been a good solution to deploy all containerized applications."

"The most valuable are security features, particularly when operating in the cloud."

"Centralized control of container resources is most valuable."

"It is easy to expand."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is its scalability on demand, which allows for potentially lower costs, and Built-in resiliency."

"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."

"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."

"Because they are a smaller company, they do not have, for example, all of the ways for authentication that Amazon or Azure has."

"The main area for improvement is the lack of a backup feature to the local hard disk or storage."

"I would like to see more seamless integration with backup, although it's pretty easy to do."

"There is no notification from the company regarding upgrades."

"I am not satisfied with the customization options from Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) because I still haven't tried any new capabilities provided by them yet."

"It would be helpful if they provided the additional Linux distributions that I prefer using. But there is still a workaround. I can do it without direct support. It's a bit more complicated, but it can still be done."

"There is room for improvement with integration."

"Setting up OpenShift locally can be challenging, particularly because it requires RHL Linux and has specific restrictions."

"The product's setup process could be easier."

"Quality of support may be improved."

"We encounter difficulties while accessing the environment and managing the cluster. This particular area needs improvement."

"Setting up OpenShift isn't easy. I rate it three out of ten for ease of setup. We're deploying it in three phases. They're in the second phase now. The total deployment time will be five months. We expect to complete the deployment this March. There are 13 people on three teams working on this deployment."

"The product monitoring tool does not work for us."

"Things are there and the documentation is there, however, there still needs to be quick guides available."

"Pricing-wise, I find it simple in that they give you a monthly fee, but they also charge it hourly. So, if you are using the service for a small part of the month, then you are only paying for that small amount instead of a whole month, like with other providers. It is a flat monthly fee if you use the service for the entire month. It just makes things so simple. Because they are focusing on Linux, you don't have to worry about licensing costs of Windows and things like that. So, the price that they give you is the price that you need to pay each month. I just find it so simple compared to the likes of AWS and Azure. It is nice, easy, and predictable. I know exactly what I am going to be paying each month and what resources I get for that price."

"Compared to other service providers, like AWS and Google, the cost of services are much less and more affordable. We are saving about 90 percent by going with Linode versus other cloud providers."

"The solution is neither cheap nor expensive."

"Currently, we are at $40 a month but they have costly solutions as well."

"When we started with the service, the cost was approximately €5 per month."

"One key difference is that pricing is very hard to come by and to understand with all the bigger companies. Their pricing models are so weird and it's hard to figure out exactly how much I am going to pay for this kind of service. Everything is piecemeal. With Linode, it's simple and straightforward. You know exactly what you will have to pay at the end of the day."

"Being that they are small, their prices are slightly higher than the large providers like Amazon if you compare raw computing power."

"At this point, I'm paying more like $35 per month for a slightly bigger machine, and the backup, and the object service."

"We paid for Cloud Pak for integration. It all depends on how many VMs or how many CPUs you are using. They do the licensing based on that."

"The pricing and licensing are handled on an upper management level, and I'm not involved in that, but I understand the solution to be somewhat pricey."

"OpenShift Container Platform is highly-priced."

"I'm an architect, so I have no involvement in the pricing and licensing of the platform."

"I'm not familiar with pricing or financial aspects. In terms of effort versus benefit, it's worth it."

"The price is slightly on the higher side. It is something that can be worked on because most of the businesses now have margins."

"The pricing is a bit more expensive than expected."

"It largely depends on how much money they earn from the application being deployed; you don't normally deploy an app just for the purpose of having it. You must constantly look into your revenue and how much you spend every container, minute, or hour of how much it is working."