Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform vs VMware Tanzu Platform comparison

Red Hat and VMware are both solutions in the Container Management category. Red Hat is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3, while VMware is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.5. Red Hat holds a 19.7% mindshare in CM, compared to VMware’s 12.1% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

Red Hat OpenShift and VMware Tanzu compete in the container platform market. OpenShift has a slight edge due to its robust security features and strong integration capabilities.

Features: OpenShift Container Platform provides robust auto-scalability, advanced cluster management, and intricate user access controls, making it secure and developer-friendly. It offers ease of integration with existing systems and supports flexible resource scaling. VMware Tanzu is notable for its seamless integration with VMware's infrastructure, including vSphere, and efficient management of Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environments. Users appreciate its comprehensive suite for container management.

Room for Improvement: OpenShift needs better integration, improved routing capabilities, and more effective networking functions like IP whitelisting. Simplifying installation and reducing pricing may boost user adoption. VMware Tanzu should enhance integration with non-VMware products and improve networking controls. Its pricing structure could benefit from more granular control and improved disaster recovery options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenShift supports multi-cloud deployments, offering substantial flexibility with well-regarded customer service, though responsiveness can vary. VMware Tanzu excels in integration with VMware ecosystems, providing ease of deployment in hybrid and public clouds. Yet, customer support can be inconsistent and sometimes lacking in-depth knowledge.

Pricing and ROI: OpenShift is recognized for its high cost, justified by its extensive feature set and enterprise support, offering significant ROI through infrastructure cost reduction and improved scalability. VMware Tanzu is seen as more affordable compared to some competitors, yet initial costs remain high. Its value lies in integration capabilities, though some users critique complexity in licensing compared to other solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

Red Hat OpenShift Container...

Ranking in Container Management

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Tanzu Platform

Ranking in Container Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Build Automation (13th), PaaS Clouds (13th), Cloud Management (24th), Development Platforms (3rd), Service Mesh (8th), Agile and DevOps Services (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is 19.7%, down from 21.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Tanzu Platform is 12.1%, down from 17.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform	19.7%
VMware Tanzu Platform	12.1%
Other	68.2%

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Rifat Rahman

Infrastructure Architect & CEO at Tirzok Private Limited

Integration and automation have transformed deployment and maintenance

Regarding the learning curve, the customers actually do not need the technical nitty-gritty details; they need to know about the containerization journey because they are not familiar with it. They know it as a theory, but they don't understand anything about its practical implications. That's the main challenge. The solution itself doesn't require a high learning curve; it is actually quite good to manage. However, application developers and managers have to understand the beauty of it, and that is the challenge. If Red Hat can execute some programs regarding that, it will help. Regarding Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, it is expensive according to market feedback. Notably, the platform plus is perceived as quite expensive and some features from an infrastructure perspective are lacking.

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DarshanChaudhari

Solutions Architect Hybrid Cloud Practice US/Europe at Tech Mahindra Limited

Empowers seamless connectivity and integration through APIs while offering robust auto-scaling

I am involved in IT services and we provide a solution to customers. We work with VMware, Nutanix, OpenShift, and Microsoft Hyper-V The Tanzu platform is highly available, scalable, and flexible. It offers native services for autoscaling and integrations through APIs, allowing seamless…

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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

"The stack in the software supply chain is one of the main reasons that we use OpenShift. When I came to this company, we bought hardware from IBM named Bluemix, and they used ICP, which stands for IBM Cloud Private."

"OpenShift integrates seamlessly with our CI/CD pipelines, offering robust automation and deployment capabilities."

"The usability and the developer experience. The platform has a centralized consultant that is easy to use for our development, operations and security teams."

"It’s user-friendly."

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

"Openshift is a very developer-friendly product."

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

"Technical support is good; they are fast and reliable."

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"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to check the flow of all the different variants within our applications."

"Tanzu Mission Control has quite a set of rich features when compared to OpenShift."

"The most important thing about the solution is its flexibility."

"The initial setup is easy."

"VMware Tanzu Mission Control has many valuable features, such as ease of use and customization."

"The solution is integrated very well with a lot of other systems. Also, its GUI is very good."

"Defining security metrics has proven beneficial for customers in maintaining a safe environment."

"The most important feature of Tanzu Mission Control is its integration with the other products, especially with ESX and vSAN. This is a strong part of Tanzu Mission Control. In other solutions, such as OpenShift or Kubernetes, you can find similar features, but they don't have similar integration. With Tanzu Mission Control, you get a total solution with only one provider. You have the integration with the infrastructure, virtualization of networking, and virtualization of storage. You have a natural integration, and you don't have the problem of integrating it with different products or providers. Sometimes, different companies have good integration, but it is not always guaranteed. For example, many years ago, Cisco and VMware were good partners in networking, but when VMware started to sell ESX, the relationship was broken. This is the problem that you can face when you are using solutions from two different companies."

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Cons

"With the recent trend of cloud-native, fully managed serverless services, I don't see much documentation about how a customer should move from on-prem to the cloud, or what is the best way to do a lift-and-shift. Even if you are on AWS OCP, which is self-managed infra services, and you want to use the ROSA managed services, what is the best way to achieve that migration? I don't see documentation for these kinds of use cases from Red Hat."

"There are some occasions when support from Red Hat is not what we expect; in instances of outages, it sometimes takes a substantial amount of time to resolve issues."

"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."

"It has an option to install OpenShift without connecting it to the Internet. We tried this, but it was very hard. We couldn't manage to use that option. We wanted to use it offline for installations, updates, upgrades, etc., but we didn't find the offline installation and updates easy. This could be better."

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

"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."

"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 initial setup can be hard."

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"The disaster recovery feature could be improved to provide better tracking of issues. I would also like to see the introduction of a dashboard view, for even further integration of all the areas that Mission Control looks at."

"The infrastructure is quite challenging."

"Customers have noticed a considerable price increase after VMware's acquisition by Broadcom."

"I would like to see additional support for things outside of Cloud Foundry."

"One potential area for expansion would be leveraging AI capabilities, which my customer might be interested in exploring as they grow."

"LYNX is a managed cluster solution that takes care of specific details within a cluster, such as sequences or services. I haven't seen this feature in Tanzu Mission Control."

"Addressing the high upfront costs could improve the product. Implementing a subscription-based model with tiered service options could make it more accessible to a broader range of customers."

"VMware Tanzu Service Mesh could add better integration with other cloud platforms, such as vRealize Automation or VMware vCloud Director for cloud providers."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

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

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

"We currently have an annual license renewal."

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

"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."

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"Its pricing is very competitive. We get around 70% or 75%, sometimes even 80%, discount on the product. I would rate it a four out of five in terms of pricing."

"VMware Tanzu Mission Control is cheaper than Red Hat OpenShift."

"It is not the most expensive option, and I believe the capabilities align well with the value it provides."

"The licensing cost is expensive."

"One of our Spanish customers told us that VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is a very expensive product for their data center."

"There are different licenses available. You have to upgrade your license if you want to scale the solution more."

"The solution is bundled in with Cloud Foundry so the pricing is not independent."

"The license for VMware Tanzu Application Service is expensive. The license should be cheaper."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	39

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

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?

Regarding whether Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is expensive or if the price is reasonable for my customers, to me, the services it provides should incur some costs, but based on market feed...

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What do you like most about VMware Tanzu Mission Control?

It definitely gives the end customer a good overview and perspective of running applications in terms of overall workload footprint. TMC provides a very detailed description of your cloud-native ap...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Mission Control?

The price of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is greater than that of Red Hat's competitor solution. I would rate the pricing of VMware Tanzu Mission Control as four out of ten.

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What needs improvement with VMware Tanzu Mission Control?

The product should support integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The tool's flexibility in onboarding different clusters needs to improve, it's presently limited to a few clusters on the li...

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Tanzu Application Catalog, Application Platform, Application Service, Hub, Mission Control, Service Mesh, Build Service, Concourse for VMware Tanzu

Overview

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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VMware Tanzu Platform is designed for cloud-native development and management of Kubernetes, CI/CD processes, microservices, and containerized workloads. It supports deployments both on cloud and on-premises, providing centralized management via Mission Control.

VMware Tanzu Platform offers seamless integration with vSphere, ESX, and vSAN, supporting centralized cluster management and lifecycle management. The platform provides a GUI for monitoring CI/CD pipelines and network policies, enhancing multi-tenancy and Day 2 operations. Users can easily manage Kubernetes clusters, monitor applications, and integrate with tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Foundry, and Azure. It ensures compliance and security for service providers, financial institutions, and businesses.

What are the key features of VMware Tanzu Platform?

Integration with vSphere, ESX, and vSAN: Enhances compatibility and flexibility.
Seamless Cluster Management: Centralized control over Kubernetes clusters.
CI/CD Pipelines and Network Policies: Simplifies monitoring and management.
Multi-tenancy Support: Facilitates resource sharing among multiple users.
Comprehensive Lifecycle Management: Streamlines deployment and scalability.
Observability Platform: Provides enhanced visibility and control.

What benefits and ROI should users look for in VMware Tanzu Platform reviews?

Centralized Management: Simplifies operations and reduces manual effort.
Enhanced Compliance and Security: Meets regulatory requirements.
Flexibility in Deployment: Supports both cloud and on-premises options.
Seamless Integration: Works with multiple vendors and tools.
Developer-Friendly Environment: Improves productivity and innovation.

Industries such as financial institutions, service providers, and businesses requiring rigorous compliance and security deploy VMware Tanzu Platform. These entities benefit from centralized management, streamlined DevOps processes, and integrated tools, enhancing their capabilities in cloud-native developments and containerized workloads.

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Sample Customers

Edenor, BMW, Ford, Argentine Ministry of Health

Verizon, Cerner, Zipcar, Avarteq

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