Rancher Labs vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

"The scalability potential is very good."

"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."

"The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations."

"The product is simple to use for a beginner."

"The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access."

"A great UI with very good integrations."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."

"This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us."

"I have found the ability to scale up is most valuable."

"The most valuable feature for me in the OpenShift Container Platform is the option to manage different containers and environments and also being able to switch among them."

"The platform is easy to scale as it supports Windows worker node."

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

"Autoscaling is an excellent feature that makes it very simple to scale our applications as required."

"OpenShift is a user-friendly container platform with a solid GUI that helps you follow what is going on and gives you an overview of all your clusters. It's more user-friendly than the Kubernetes itself. The interface helps you learn the platform and provides access to some features or specific comments."

"They have built on top of Kubernetes. Most of the Kubernetes latest technology is already supported by the solution."

"It is very lightweight and can be deployed very fast, especially when it comes to containers."

"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."

"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."

"They should improve application visibility along with code visibility."

"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."

"While Rancher Labs provides some level of security, it's not considered very robust."

"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."

"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."

"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."

"I believe OpenShift Container Platform can improve in networking, architecture, and cloud areas by reducing deployment time, lowering costs, and streamlining engineer resources"

"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."

"In my experience, the issues are not always simply technical. They do stem from technical challenges, but they struggle with the topic of adoption. When you encounter all of the customer pull, there are normally several tiers of your client pop that can adopt either the fundamental features or a little more advanced ones. The majority of the time, the challenge is determining how to drive adoption, how to sell the product to the customer, and how much time they can spend to really utilize those advanced features. If we get into much more detail, but this is from my perspective as the platform engineer and not the end customer, the ability of the end user to be able to debug potential issues with their application That is arguably the most important, let's say, work throughput in my area."

"Container Platform could be improved if we could aggregate logs out of the box instead of having to do it through integrations with other products."

"There should be a simplification of the overall cluster environment. It should require fewer resources. Just to run a simple Hello World app, it requires about seven servers, and that's just crazy. I understand that it is fully redundant, but it's prohibitively expensive to get something simple going."

"There is room for improvement with integration."

"The setup process is not great."

"The stability needs improvement."

"This is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs involved."

"The cost is reasonable since it's open source. Rancher effectively addresses container orchestration trends, especially for those with some Kubernetes knowledge."

"The pricing of the solution sits in the mid range, not high and not low. It has a fixed price that you pay every month."

"The solution is free and open source but there is a fee for support."

"There is an annual subscription. The price of the solution should be cheaper and have better pricing flexibility."

"Although Rancher Labs is an open-source solution, they also offer a paid version, where you buy the support when needed."

"There are no hidden charges attached to the product unless a user opts for the premium support offered by the solution."

"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."

"OpenShift with Red Hat support is pretty costly. We have done a comparison between AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Services) which provides fully managed services from AWS. It's built on open-source-based Kubernetes clusters and it is much cheaper compared to Red Hat, but it is a little expensive compared to ECS provided by AWS."

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

"If you buy the product for a year or three, you get a lot of discounts...I feel that the product is worth its cost, especially since setting it up can be done with just a few clicks."

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

"We have to pay for the license."

"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."