OpenShift Container Platform alternatives and competitors

Kubernetes is our platform of choice for running things in production, applications, and the like. Everything we build runs on Kubernetes, it's our platform of choice. I'm the principal devs engineer.

Kubernetes has improved our time to market because it's quite lightweight and easy to install. 

The most important feature is container orchestration. Kubernetes provides us with a mechanism to deploy or run in an automated fashion across nodes. I don't need to worry if it's running on node one or node two, it's all taken care of by Kubernetes. 

They have a very minimal interface to do certain things and that could be enhanced so that someone who is not as comfortable on CLI can also use the interface and play around with the cluster. Commercial offerings like Red Hat OpenShift offer it, but the open-source community edition from CNCF doesn't. I'd like to see an incubating project there. It's not one organization that is contributing to Kubernetes, it's a CNCF project, i.e. an open-source contributing forum.

They could possibly promote some data APIs to the production stage. They have a lot of APIs which are in beta stage which they continue to test. Perhaps it's time to upgrade them to a more product-release stage. I think it would offer peace of mind to customers in terms of stability. 

I've been using this solution for four years. 

This is a stable product if you are on a long-term support release. It's quite widely tested and used.

Kubernetes is highly scalable. We have around 150 users and it's used daily, mainly by developers and engineers. 

Kubernetes has a very active and vibrant community forum and people can join Slack Workspace and ask questions there. They announce new releases there too and people help out. If there are issues, you can open tickets, open GitHub issues and things like that.

We previously worked with Apache Hadoop but it was becoming somewhat cumbersome and complex to install.

Deployment complexity depends on the use case. I can install it on my laptop and it's easy but if it's being installed on production it needs to be set up in a cluster formation. That kind of deployment is moderately complex, and that's where we come into the picture, providing the automation for that. For someone without any knowledge in the area, deployment might require a third-party consultant or an integrator to help with that. 

I have some basic experience with Rancher and Red Hat OpenShift, which has a very nice graphical interface. An administrator, developer, or even a user can do a lot of stuff other than just seeing what applications are running. It's something that separates the commercial offerings from the community version of Kubernetes. If there were something like that in the open-source version, it would be a game changer. Of course, the commercial version also comes with hours of tech support and guides.

This product is mainly used for monitoring. 

We can manage the cluster easily. They have an open-source option so we can manage everything with the Rancher. 

The initial setup is simple and straightforward. 

The features like that included in Kubernetes, Q, EKS, and AECS should be included in the Rancher Labs.

We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default. It would be great for a cluster monitoring tool. 

I've worked with the solution for four years. 

It's a stable product. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

Scaling is not required. This solution is only for monitoring only. 

As of now, I have not required the assistance of technical support.

I also work with Kubernetes and prefer it for the learning curve. For production, I prefer OpenShift.

It is straightforward and simple to set up. It is not overly complex. 

Based on the cluster, the deployment only takes about ten to 15 minutes. 

If there is a cluster deployment, it means only one user will be present to install Rancher, and only a normal user is required. One user is enough for the installation and management point. It's not difficult to maintain.

As for the maintenance, if you install any tool in a particular node, then we need to maintain it for security patching. Apart from that, they do not require any maintenance.

It is an open-source solution. We don't need any specific license in order to use it. 

I'm working with the latest version of the solution. 

Rancher is highly recommended. Many tools are available. If you go for AWS, they have a tool; if you go for Azure, they give you a separate tool and service. However, if you prefer no downtime, OpenShift is the best tool.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

We use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to manage our containers and to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud.

Overall Amazon EKS is a good solution in the industry. The solution can support multi tendencies, and network isolations are the key factors.

Amazon EKS is predominately public. However, the government has started to have a lot of interest in Kubernetes and is receiving more education on Kubernetes and Amazon EKS. If we can have the security of Amazon EKS align with the security that is set out by the government it would be much better.

I have been using Amazon EKS for approximately six months.

Amazon EKS is scalable.

We are in the process of migrating from OpenShift to Amazon EKS which will be a lot of work to migrate over. We have about over 300 developers who are going to use Amazon EKS in the future.

We have previously used OpenShift.

I did the implementation of the solution myself in my organization.

I have found OpenShift to be a better tool and I would recommend it.

I rate Amazon EKS an eight out of ten.

We are interested in using this solution as a Container as a Service (CaaS).

The multi-tenancy with the VCD is great. 

This product doesn't have a GUI. In order to use it properly, I need to connect it to a new GUI or build a GUI to manage it — it's pretty difficult.

This solution should come in a suite including other solutions like Grafana and Prometheus.

I have only been using this solution for a couple of weeks; I am just testing it out. 

As we don't have a license, we don't receive customer support. 

The initial installation could be easier — it's complex. 

I installed this solution by myself.

Currently, I am evaluating Rancher and OpenShift.

At this point in time, I would give this solution a rating of seven out of ten.