Azure Red Hat OpenShift vs Cloud Foundry comparison

Microsoft and Cloud Foundry are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Microsoft is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.3, while Cloud Foundry is ranked #21. Microsoft holds a 0.6% mindshare in PSP, compared to Cloud Foundry’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 33% of Cloud Foundry users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Cloud Foundry and Azure Red Hat OpenShift are competing products in the cloud-based application platform services category. Based on data comparisons, Azure Red Hat OpenShift appears to have an upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set and integration capabilities.

Features: Cloud Foundry offers seamless multi-cloud support, scalability, and developer-centric tools. Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides enhanced security, integrated CI/CD, and operational consistency across hybrid environments. The differences focus on integrated tools and security offerings, with Azure Red Hat OpenShift being more cohesive for larger, security-focused deployments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cloud Foundry is noted for easy deployment and straightforward scaling. Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers extensive customer service and integration aids, which are beneficial for complex, large-scale deployments. Advanced support options and integrated deployment tools provide an advantage for enterprises with comprehensive needs.

Pricing and ROI: Cloud Foundry provides a cost-effective setup focusing on rapid application deployment and high ROI. Azure Red Hat OpenShift, with higher initial setup costs, delivers substantial ROI through extensive features and seamless integration, offering long-term value for organizations seeking a feature-rich platform.

To learn more, read our detailed Azure Red Hat OpenShift vs. Cloud Foundry Report (Updated: July 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

12th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Cloud Foundry

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

21st

Average Rating

5.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Azure Red Hat OpenShift is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloud Foundry is 2.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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ArtemiiKropachev

Vice President, Engineering & Principal Architect at Li9 Technology Solutions

A high-performing solution provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand and lot of automation that developers can utilize

Azure Red Hat OpenShift is very valuable because it is a complete application delivery platform with a lot of automation that developers can utilize. It's a complete solution without building your own on top of Kubernetes. As a consulting company, we implement Azure Red Hat OpenShift for our clients, who appreciate its integration capabilities for enhancing cloud operations. While we handle implementation, build processes, and automation, the operational responsibility lies with the customer. The service provides basic processes and support from Red Hat and Microsoft, which benefits clients by allowing them to focus on their business rather than regular operations like cluster upgrades.

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Carlos Bittrich

Technology Advisor at Fabrik

Quick to deploy but being deprecated by IBM and should be merged with Kubernetes

We enjoy the fast deployment. Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the developer or administrator. The autoscaling is great. It is just a switch that needs to be turned on, and autoscaling starts working. At this moment, you begin to see different meters about usage that helps you in updating the scaling limits, which help you tune the running instances. Besides this, autoscaling can be scheduled, so in times of low activity, you can have lower limits or increase in advance for special dates. It has good logging. CF has logging events that help identify when a transaction runs and its response time which helps in monitoring execution.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"In Kubernetes, when traffic goes out of a pod, it has to have its own IP address. Every service that's going out requires another IP. But with OpenShift, you don't have to deal with any of those IPs because they use NAT."

"Flexibility, a very well-developed interface, and ease of learning are the most valuable features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift."

"Technical support from Red Hat is very good."

"The solution's support and its automation tool that ensures we are secure and appropriately configured are the most valuable features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift."

"I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten."

"It has a feature to automatically scale up or scale down. If my application is running in peak hours, it will automatically increase."

"As a consulting company, we implement Azure Red Hat OpenShift for our clients, who appreciate its integration capabilities for enhancing cloud operations. While we handle implementation, build processes, and automation, the operational responsibility lies with the customer. The service provides basic processes and support from Red Hat and Microsoft, which benefits clients by allowing them to focus on their business rather than regular operations like cluster upgrades."

"It supports AKS and other projects like Kubernetes or EKS."

More Azure Red Hat OpenShift pros

"My favorite component of IBM's solution is Node-RED, which greatly shortens the amount of time required to develop, test, and deploy new applications."

"Cloud Foundry builds the runtime environment directly without requiring dependency management from the user."

"IBM is the only vendor to offer integration with blockchain for smart contract development."

Cons

"Azure Red Hat OpenShift's support should be improved."

"Regarding room for improvement, there's always room, but it's mainly about Azure itself rather than Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Azure is not as advanced as AWS in terms of supported services. AWS is the leader in this area. However, there's no need for service improvement in Azure Red Hat OpenShift as the service is excellent. I don't need additional features because I can customize it according to the customer's needs."

"Technically, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is fine. However, its marketing could be improved, especially when compared to the robust marketing efforts of Azure, HPE, and Nutanix."

"One of the things to notice is that this product can be expensive."

"I would like Azure Red Hat OpenShift to be more open to new frameworks and languages. Currently, if I create a pod with Rust, it doesn't work in OpenShift, and I must create a layer of interpretation."

"The product is expensive."

"Automation could be improved."

"There is room for improvement in terms of orchestration. While Azure orchestration offers valuable features, it's worth noting that it may not match the level of orchestration provided by Kubernetes itself."

More Azure Red Hat OpenShift cons

"In IBM Cloud, the product has been deprecated in favor of Kubernetes, which is a more complicated infrastructure to manage."

"After the initial excitement period with Node-RED is over, you crave the need of additional integrations to third-party services."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is expensive compared to a similar product."

"Compared to other cloud environments like Amazon or Google, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is an expensive solution."

"Azure Red Hat OpenShift is not a low-price solution; it's expensive. Pricing depends on the strategy and whether you buy it directly from Red Hat or the Azure portal. Additionally, some customers may need a complete disaster recovery solution, which requires additional licensing and software products for implementation, such as backups."

"I rate the product's price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"IBM has a free tier and payment option depending on the products selected."

"The pricing models should be reworked to the needs of a wider range of companies. Some customers will not be able to afford it until quite a few years into production, even after good PoC results and a successful launch."

"You are allocated a minimum amount of resources in the free tier. This seems fair and highly scalable, as you pay per usage as per cloud pricing schemes."

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Financial Services Firm

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Government

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Financial Services Firm

27%

Manufacturing Company

18%

Computer Software Company

13%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

The most valuable features of the solution are accessibility and scalability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

The pricing for OpenShift is similar to other solutions like Docker ( /products/docker-37146-reviews ) Studio. The plans with ARO and AWS are standard in the market. However, using OpenShift on-pre...

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What needs improvement with Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

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Overview

Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand, monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft and Red Hat. Kubernetes is at the core of Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift brings added-value features to complement Kubernetes, making it a turnkey container platform as a service (PaaS) with a significantly improved developer and operator experience.

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Cloud Foundry, home of the open source application development technologies CF Application Runtime and CF Container Runtime, is more than a platform. It’s a flexible way of embracing digital transformation that helps businesses evolve in the face of constant change. To put it another way, with Cloud Foundry, companies can rest assured they will have the right tool for the right job.

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Grape Up, c-Com, KONE, TITAN, CSAA, Bosch, Allstate, Verizon, West Corp., Telstra

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