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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform pros and cons

Vendor: Red Hat
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform offers auto scalability and automation, significantly reducing developer overhead.
The platform integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines, providing robust automation and deployment capabilities.
It enhances security throughout the stack and software supply chain, providing stability and reducing patching concerns.
Built on Kubernetes technology, OpenShift supports modern advancements, ensuring future readiness.
OpenShift's flexibility and scalability meet diverse enterprise needs, including efficient management of clusters and environments.

CONS

Networking and routing capabilities could be improved, with better restrictions on IP access and integration of identity management tools.
Deployment, particularly in offline or bare-metal environments, is complex and resource-intensive.
Documentation lacks clarity on cloud migration and advanced feature adoption.
Pricing is high, and cost-effectiveness is a concern for many users.
Support is limited, particularly for lower-tier subscription levels and non-customers, leading to delayed resolutions.
 

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Pros review quotes

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Digital Solution Technical Analyst at ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
May 4, 2022
The auto scalability feature, which is based on smart agendas, determined from pre-prepared rules is the most valuable feature. You can also create different routes for deployment. Deployment types can be provided with an identifier, such as an ARB deployment. This really helped in rolling out releases without disrupting services for the end-users.
AK
CTO and Principal Architect at Li9 Technology Solutions
Nov 13, 2020
Openshift is a very developer-friendly product.
reviewer1505007 - PeerSpot reviewer
It Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 23, 2021
Red Hat's security throughout the stack and software supply chain is good. It is a lightweight operating system. You don't have to worry about the security patches on the system. You can update the entire environment with security patches, which is a nice feature.
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Chandrashekhar NR - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 7, 2021
Some of the primary features we leverage in the platform have to do with how we manage the cluster configurations, the properties, and the auto-scalability. These are the features that definitely provide value in terms of reducing overhead for the developers.
Russell Nile - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 12, 2022
Centralized control of container resources is most valuable.
DeepakMishra - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO, Head of Sales and Business Development at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Apr 25, 2022
The platform is easy to scale as it supports Windows worker node.
reviewer1296444 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 30, 2022
The solution is stable. However, it depends on the integrations of the solution on how stable it will be, such as what tools you integrate with.
PS
IBM Data & IA Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
May 15, 2022
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.
Varundeep Kaur - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President at SDL
May 26, 2022
Technical support is good; they are fast and reliable.
reviewer1560270 - PeerSpot reviewer
Corporate Engineering Manager at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
May 26, 2022
The best feature is the management for the port life cycle, which automatically recycles, pulls, and scales up and down based on needs and requests.
 

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Cons review quotes

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Digital Solution Technical Analyst at ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
May 4, 2022
From a networking perspective, the routing capability can be matured further. OpenShift doesn't handle restrictions on what kind of IPs are allowed, who can access them, and who cannot access them. So it is a simple matter of just using it with adequate network access, at the network level.
AK
CTO and Principal Architect at Li9 Technology Solutions
Nov 13, 2020
The solution needs to introduce open ID connect integration for role-based access control.
reviewer1505007 - PeerSpot reviewer
It Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 23, 2021
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.
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Chandrashekhar NR - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 7, 2021
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.
Russell Nile - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apr 12, 2022
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.
DeepakMishra - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO, Head of Sales and Business Development at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Apr 25, 2022
OpenShift needs to improve their container storage.
reviewer1296444 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 30, 2022
OpenShift Container Platform could improve by having better integration.
PS
IBM Data & IA Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
May 15, 2022
Another thing that bugs me is that they removed the software in NFS storage. I don't understand why because this is a common type of storage. I am having problems with that, so I wish they would put it back.
Varundeep Kaur - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President at SDL
May 26, 2022
The complexity of the installation could be reduced. While we got the necessary support, the instructions could be clearer.
reviewer1560270 - PeerSpot reviewer
Corporate Engineering Manager at a consultancy with 5,001-10,000 employees
May 26, 2022
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.