I'm currently engaged in developing containerized microservices applications, managing thirteen modules within an OpenShift environment. These modules collectively handle automated payment processes for various services. My role involves closely monitoring these modules on OpenShift, ensuring optimal resource allocation such as storage and CPU usage. Additionally, I'm tasked with implementing solutions for scenarios of resource overutilization, including autoscaling capabilities to accommodate high traffic periods efficiently. I also focus on scaling down resources during low-traffic periods to optimize cost and performance.
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Significantly enhanced and streamlined our organization's application development and deployment processes
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
OpenShift has significantly enhanced and streamlined our organization's application development and deployment processes. It offers more than just Kubernetes clusters, providing additional features like the Dashboard, which greatly simplifies tasks for developers. Moreover, OpenShift adds an extra layer of security, ensuring that applications run securely with features like hashing upgrades.
It offers a vast repository of images and tools tailored for deployment and application development. This rich ecosystem makes deployment and performance optimization much easier compared to our previous methods. Additionally, by opting for OpenShift, we gain access to comprehensive support from their expert team.
It streamlines our development and deployment processes through automation. From development to deployment, all processes are automated, providing efficiency and productivity gains. Developers can submit their changes for approval, and once approved, the deployment to production can proceed without requiring manual intervention. This streamlined workflow not only makes the process easier but also enhances productivity across the team.
The integration capabilities of OpenShift with other platforms and services have greatly enhanced our workflow. When you opt for OpenShift, whether through a subscription or by installing it on your servers, you gain access to a comprehensive support system provided by Red Hat. OpenShift features a marketplace with a wide array of operators, facilitating seamless integration and deployment of various services. For instance, popular services like Elasticsearch can be easily integrated into the cluster directly from the user interface and dashboard, making the installation process much simpler and more user-friendly.
The broad support for multiple languages and frameworks in OpenShift has positively impacted the productivity of our development teams. We've observed significant improvements in our tools and team collaboration since adopting this platform. As we continue to enhance our processes, it's evident that most of our development team members are actively engaged and contributing, particularly our dedicated engineers and architects.
When comparing the efficiency of OpenShift Container Orchestration to other solutions we've considered, such as Kubernetes, we find that OpenShift aligns well with our existing architecture and team structure. Our approach resembles the architecture of OpenShift, with a team leader overseeing multiple workers.
What is most valuable?
One of the most valuable features of OpenShift for our operations is its auto-scaling capability. This feature is crucial for handling high loads or traffic spikes in our applications. With OpenShift, we have the flexibility to scale our applications up or down as needed, providing a significant benefit to our operations.
OpenShift offers robust tools for monitoring application traffic, allowing us to analyze client requests and other business-related metrics. This enables us to effectively manage our applications and make informed decisions to optimize performance.
What needs improvement?
An enhancement to consider for the future might involve incorporating a comprehensive solution for CI/CD tailored specifically for OpenShift.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with it for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate its stability abilities eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate its scalability capabilities seven out of ten. More than three thousand users use it daily.
How are customer service and support?
We are experiencing dissatisfaction with the technical support as we often receive delayed responses when raising questions. I would rate it five out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously worked with Kubernetes cluster, but we switched to using OpenShift, as advised by our architect. This change is aimed at achieving greater scalability and stability for our product, as we've encountered challenges with our setup at the time.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was relatively straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
We manually installed the deployment three months ago, utilizing grid protection systems. I have been handling both development and production environments. In the development phase, I build deployments from scratch, while for production, I collaborate with another vendor. I manage all steps of installation and ensure smooth migration to the production environment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The cost is quite high. I would rate it eight out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate it seven out of ten.
Stable platform providing a high grade of security and reliability
What is our primary use case?
OpenShift works as a data pipeline management tool.
What needs improvement?
There are challenges related to additional security layers, connectivity compliance for endpoints, and integration. Additionally, it needs a little training to understand the process.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a highly stable product. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
We have deployed OpenShift on the cloud. It is a one-time setup and can take longer to deploy. Once implemented, the rest of the deployment becomes easier. I rate the process a six out of ten.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product has reasonable pricing. It is an affordable solution but needs a learning effort to understand industrial-grade security.
What other advice do I have?
OpenShift facilitates DevOps practices and improves CI/CD workflows in terms of stability compared to Jenkins. We receive new versions of the plugin in timely intervals. If we do not upgrade the plugins, it introduces some security vulnerabilities at a corporate level.
I advise others to go for the product as it offers high security and reliability. I rate it an eight out of ten.
current base of all technology
What do you like best about the product?
ease to use,ease of implemention,custmor support
What do you dislike about the product?
one problem that is api restart and we lose control
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
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OpenShift is easy to use and scale applications
What do you like best about the product?
Kubernetes is a nice solution for scaling up and down applications based on load. OpenShift is becoming more popular so other tools usually have a solution for using their tools with OpenShift. And OpenShift is built with security in mind to help make sure developers are doing the right thing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Getting a new cluster created and installing new operators or upgrading operators on the clusters.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy to implement good ci/cd process and standards for our company. Helps us cut down on resources because we can easily scale applications down and back up
An expandable solution with an easy initial setup phase and a great GUI
What is our primary use case?
Compared to OpenStack, OpenShift is the best product in the market. There are plenty of cloud service providers who use OpenStack or other open-source products, but OpenShift is the best. Even AWS is just an okay product, but they have different proprietary software, which is not the same as OpenShift.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of the solution stem from the product's GUI, and other such areas of the product have been set up. Compared to AWS, OpenShift is better.
What needs improvement?
Latency and performance are two areas of concern in OpenShift where improvements are required.
OpenShift's scalability has scope for improvement.
OpenShift's technical support team needs to improve the support they provide to my company since the support we currently receive depends on the support package we have from the ones that OpenShift offers, like platinum, gold, or silver. OpenShift's technical support team is good, but it takes time for them to find the root cause of a particular issue. One of the clients of my company doesn't face many issues with the product, so we don't use much of the technical support. I can say that OpenShift's technical support team is okay in general.
I have experience with the product, but I don't possess a large amount of technical knowledge to comment on what functionalities need to be added to the product.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenShift for two years. My company is a user of Red Hat products.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable or expandable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Eight members of my company's team use OpenShift.
How are customer service and support?
For one of my company's clients, we have to deal with the technical support team of OpenShift. With Red Hat, my company has platinum support. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
AWS and DigitalOcean are products with which I have some experience.
Kubernetes on AWS is a bit complex to set up, whereas OpenShift is easier for me to set up. However, they use the same things during the setup process. OpenShift is just a better product for a new user compared to AWS since the former is easier to understand.
How was the initial setup?
The product's initial setup is very easy, especially compared to AWS.
The solution is deployed on a public cloud since half of the deployment is in the data center and half of it is in the cloud.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My company makes payments towards the licensing costs attached to OpenShift.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
During the evaluation phase, I looked at Google Cloud.
What other advice do I have?
I carried out OpenShift's integration process for two or three firms as a part of the team, so it was not done by myself alone. I did carry out the integration process for AWS. Comparing OpenShift with AWS, I found the former to be much easier.
I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.
Easy-to-use product with valuable features for integrating CI/CD pipelines and repositories
What is our primary use case?
We use OpenShift for the deployment of microservices architecture and containerizing applications.
What is most valuable?
The product is easy to use. It has valuable features for integrating CI/CD pipelines, repositories, and support from open-source communities.
What needs improvement?
The product’s integration with Windows containers and other third-party products needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using OpenShift for three to four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable platform.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product is expensive to scale for smaller businesses in an on-premise environment. They can instead opt for a public cloud setup. The enterprises that can afford the cost should only opt for it if they have a specific use case or want to transform applications.
How are customer service and support?
We receive remote and on-call support services on purchasing an enterprise support subscription.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The implementation is not as straightforward as VMware products. It requires prior experience for easier deployment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product’s pricing is expensive. It has the biggest market share right now as a containerization platform. It is the highest-selling product.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Vanilla doesn’t have essential features like CI/CD integration, repositories, and community, similar to OpenShift.
What other advice do I have?
I rate OpenShift a nine out of ten. It is a wonderful product. I advise others to choose the environment size properly. You can deploy it on a public cloud and not necessarily on-premises. You can decide depending on the workload and data localization requirements.
Very good platform to implement on-prem Kubernetes
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to learn and manage after you learn basic Kubernetes concepts. It provides guard rails and tools to make managing Kubenetes easier . Especially OCP4 addressed several challenges in OCP3 so becoming more user friendly .
What do you dislike about the product?
We want to dynamically adjust spinning up and down of our batch applications that only run at night , but we end up consuming capacity anyway to gurantee availability of system resources.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deploying on-prem containerized applications in consistent manner and allowing scalability .
Openshift as on orchestration
What do you like best about the product?
It provides you with a centralized environment to orchestrate or scale up your applications.
Also, a framework independent container platform along with the complete tracking of your resource utilization of all of your deployed applications.
Also, a framework independent container platform along with the complete tracking of your resource utilization of all of your deployed applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
As the community is so small, there is less documentation available.
Also, it is not compatible with every other operating system you can only have a minimal choice of selection between them.
Also, it is not compatible with every other operating system you can only have a minimal choice of selection between them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
While moving from hypervisor to redhat openshift. It was easy to migrate between the ESXi used virtual machines and openshift on-prem environment. As it is partnered with IBM, so we used IBM Cloud paks for NOI to migrate it.
Best containerization platform for microservice application
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about openshift is it give us full customisation rights for creating and deploying any services. Also when a pod gets deleted or gets down it automatically creates a new pod or a replica of it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although its a great tool for many companies but still the PVC and external storage creates a mess with the application which causes failure in read and write acess.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is widely used tool but the main problem that it solves is the container management and its pod monitoring which helps us to create alerts and this makes every company to prevent from a huge losses
very good
What do you like best about the product?
Pods Management, routes, services, deployments, projects/ configpaths, oc cli command,cloudbees integration
What do you dislike about the product?
Cluster admin skills, is not my strong, not more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
release management lifecycle
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