Linode vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

Linode
Read 27 Linode reviews
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96% willing to recommend
Red Hat OpenShift Container...
Read 43 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform reviews
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  • 11,004 Comparison Views
95% willing to recommend
 

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Categories and Ranking

Linode
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (6th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (7th)
Red Hat OpenShift Container...
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
Container Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Linode is 11.8%, down from 18.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Unique Categories:
Container Management
35.2%
 

Featured Reviews

RW
Aug 2, 2022
Prompt and professional service, easy to set up, supports many versions of Linux
Given our business model, it is very important that Linode offers a focused set of cloud computing services because it means that we can then mirror our software in the cloud. When we do want to do things like developing web service interfaces then the environment is available. We chose SUSE Linux but we could have chosen Fedora. They offer quite a number of Linux solutions. Initially and at this point, the fact that Linode offers worldwide coverage via multiple data centers is not important to us. However, our software is becoming obsolete and when they finally stop using it, we'll offer an archive, online inquiry for them. At that point, it will be an important feature. We have accessed it using SSH on a number of different platforms and it works every time.
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MS
May 9, 2024
Resilient, fully automated upgrades, and fast speed of delivery
My grief with Red Hat is that they are taking all open-source products and rebranding them as if they are their products. I get questions from our customers. They ask questions such as why are you using OpenShift? Why go for vendor lock-in? I have to explain that there is no real vendor lock-in. They should tone down the aggressive branding a bit. At times, we also have some problems with getting the proper attention for specific bugs. Red Hat should work on that. We are not big customers of Red Hat, but sometimes, we have severe bugs. We are very innovative, and sometimes, we have to wait for a long time to get proper attention. Red Hat should improve on that. Red Hat sometimes shifts its focus. We are moving our entire platform from OpenStack to bare metal, so we were running OpenShift on bare metal. They should improve their installers, and they should not change these installers all the time. They can maybe have two instead of four. They have shifted their attention to public clouds, so we now have to wait for our RVs, which is sometimes annoying. We are not using the Red Hat GitOps operator. We are using the ArgoCD operator because the GitOps operator provided by Red Hat is too old. Our customers are asking for a certain functionality, and the Red Hat operator is lagging behind. It is the same with their Single Sign-On. We are not using Red Hat Single Sign-On because the versions are too old. They should speed it up a bit.
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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

"Generally speaking, I have not found any faults using Linode. For what we wanted, they provided a complete solution."
"We can scale up and down as we require."
"The most valuable feature is the domain settings page."
"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 ability to fire up a virtual machine, use it, and then kill it, is quite a valuable feature for me."
"The cloud management panel is nice."
"The most valuable aspects of Linode are the virtual server and the clean server. I install what I need on it."
"It is also important that Linode offers worldwide coverage via multiple data centers. The ability to deploy on multiple servers, worldwide, allows us to have distributed services and failover and redundancy."
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"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it has a lot to offer to developers, so they don't need to care about the infrastructure or basic setup of the containers, so you can just jump in and develop."
"The console or the GUI of OpenShift is awesome. You can do a lot of things from there. You can perform administration tasks as well as development tasks."
"The platform has significantly improved our organization by enhancing productivity and reducing the time required to deploy applications."
"Technical support is good; they are fast and reliable."
"I find the security features and use of operators in OpenShift Container Platform highly valuable."
"The platform is easy to scale as it supports Windows worker node."
"The tool's most valuable features include high availability, scalability, and security. Other features like advanced cluster management, advanced cluster security, and Red Hat Quay make it powerful for businesses. It also comes with features like OpenShift Virtualization."
"Dashboards... give us all the details we need to see about the microservices."
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Cons

"There is room for improvement regarding customer support."
"The product must improve its security."
"Our primary concern is always the latency."
"Before they changed the dashboard, I found some of the more granular options easier to find."
"When it comes to marketing and exposure, Linode needs improvement because I just randomly found them by looking for Linux solutions."
"I would like Linode (without cluttering things) to provide some type of DevOps workflow where people are configuring their pipelines from running their tests and deploying to their test server. Once approved by clicking a button, it just gets deployed to production. I would like something like Azure DevOps, which we use for large applications, and would be something nice to have in Linode."
"They recently changed the web interface and although the older one did not look as good, the new one is less responsive."
"I don't know how all of their services work, but my understanding is that they're not offering the entry-level machine for someone who just wants to own their own web page."
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"It is difficult to deploy the OpenShift cluster in a bare-metal environment."
"OpenShift has certain restrictions in terms of managing the cluster when it's running on a public cloud. For example, identity and access management integration with the IM of AWS is quite difficult. It requires some open-source tools to integrate. This is one area where I always see room for improvement."
"My impression is that this solution is pretty expensive so I think the pricing plan could improve."
"We are not big customers of Red Hat, but sometimes, we have severe bugs. We are very innovative, and sometimes, we have to wait for a long time to get proper attention. Red Hat should improve on that."
"The complexity of the installation could be reduced. While we got the necessary support, the instructions could be clearer."
"The setup process is not great."
"It can take 10 to 15 minutes to deploy a microservice. The CI/CD process takes a long time, and if it's because of OCP, that is something that can be changed."
"The monitoring and logging could be improved."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees to include things like extra public IPs and backup services."
"is a little cheaper than Google or Amazon, more or less on par with the other competitors."
"It is quite affordable, which makes it a great choice."
"I pay just over £20 per month and have done so ever since I started eight years ago, which to me is good value."
"The monthly cost depends on your requirements."
"Being that they are small, their prices are slightly higher than the large providers like Amazon if you compare raw computing power."
"The pricing model is simple."
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"Its price is a bit high because it's a premium product, but as long as the business is ready to pay for that, it's okay."
"The pricing is expensive for licensing."
"I'm an architect, so I have no involvement in the pricing and licensing of the platform."
"Its licensing is completely incomprehensible. We have special people within our company. They discuss with Red Hat subscription managers. It is too complex, and I do not understand it. We are from the government, and we are trying to be as cheap as possible. Sometimes, I am just amazed at the amount of money that we have to pay. It is crazy."
"The solution is expensive, and I rate it an eight out of ten. There is a subscription called OpenShift Plus, which offers additional features and products the vendor provides to complement the OpenShift Container Platform. These include ACM, Red Hat Quay, and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation."
"I'm not familiar with pricing or financial aspects. In terms of effort versus benefit, it's worth it."
"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 price is slightly on the higher side. It is something that can be worked on because most of the businesses now have margins."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
University
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Linode?
When I started using Linode, I found its functionality easy to navigate, user-friendly and responsive to my needs. It provides clear reminders about services I'm not using, like DNS zones, which I ...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Linode?
Compared to other providers, I find Linode's pricing a bit higher. Storage could be more affordable.
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What needs improvement with Linode?
I'm not sure what could be improved at Linode since they're likely already making enhancements, especially with the Akamai acquisition and, I don't have any specific suggestions as I haven't encoun...
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Which is better - OpenShift Container Platform or VMware Tanzu Mission Control?
Red Hat Openshift is ideal for organizations using microservices and cloud environments. I like that the platform is auto-scalable, which saves overhead time for developers. I think Openshift can b...
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What do you like most about OpenShift Container Platform?
The tool's most valuable features include high availability, scalability, and security. Other features like advanced cluster management, advanced cluster security, and Red Hat Quay make it powerful...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenShift Container Platform?
I rate the pricing a four or five out of ten.
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Overview


Simplify your cloud infrastructure with our Linux virtual machines and robust set of tools to develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and easier.

Linode believes that in order to accelerate innovation in the cloud, virtual computing must be more accessible, affordable, and simple. Our infrastructure-as-a-service platform is deployed across 11 global markets from our data centers around the world and is supported by our Next Generation Network, advanced APIs, comprehensive services, and vast library of educational resources. Linode products, services, and people enable developers and businesses to build, deploy, and scale applications more easily and cost-effectively in the cloud.

Increase storage capacity with additional Block Storage or S3-compatible Object Storage. Add instant Backups with complete independency to your stack. Ensure your applications and services are highly-available with Linode NodeBalancers. Deploy Kubernetes clusters with our fully-managed container orchestration engine.

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CPU, transfer, storage, and RAM bundled into one simple price.

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Red Hat® OpenShift® offers a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications. Benefit from streamlined platform installation and upgrades from one of the enterprise Kubernetes leaders.

 

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