The platform's most valuable features include cost reduction through VM application migration to containers, scalability for controlling memory and CPU usage, and the reliability offered by application containerization.
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easy to use container platform
What do you like best about the product?
Same consumer experience regardless the infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Redhat Support is not upto the mark. Performance numbers are misleading.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Same consumer experiance with multiple infrastructure.
Extremely good and mature product to be used for scale
What do you like best about the product?
Good features and very stable. Good Control for platform admins.
What do you dislike about the product?
RedHat L1 support for the platform is not as good as the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
providing the paas platform for enterprise.
great
What do you like best about the product?
easy configuration great support great sales team
What do you dislike about the product?
easy to use esy configuration fast quick
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
cheaper than using regular servers
Reliable platform with efficient features for VM application migration to containers
What is most valuable?
What needs improvement?
One area for product improvement is the support limitations within the subscription models, particularly the restricted support hours for lower-tier subscriptions.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have six years of experience working with the OpenShift Container Platform.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product has proven to be very stable, crucial for supporting our applications effectively.
How was the initial setup?
Setting up the OpenShift Container Platform was straightforward. It's primarily deployed on-premises, although I've also utilized cloud solutions. It takes 15 days to complete the setup. Around three executives are involved in both the deployment and ongoing maintenance.
I rate the process an eight.
What was our ROI?
The migration from VMs to containers has resulted in significant cost savings for us.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product pricing is competitive and structured around vCPU subscriptions, aligning with our application requirements.
What other advice do I have?
OpenShift integrates seamlessly with our CI/CD pipelines, offering robust automation and deployment capabilities. I would highly recommend it.
I rate it a ten.
Supports Kubernetes technology, but the stability needs improvement
What is our primary use case?
OpenShift Connect Platform is on a private cloud setup. There, we deploy all of our applications.
What is most valuable?
They have built on top of Kubernetes. Most of the Kubernetes latest technology is already supported by the solution. The only thing is, we need to change our view of the routes.
What needs improvement?
The stability needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenShift Container Platform for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability wise, I think there were few issues, but I'm not sure whether it was on an organization level or it was from OpenShift. The stability is a seven out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is not very complex but it is not as easy as Kubernetes.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We have to pay for the license.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I rate the solution a seven 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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Helps to deploy applications but improvement is needed in integrations
What is our primary use case?
We use the OpenShift Container Platform to deploy applications. It helps to deploy them from a monolithic to a microservices approach.
What is most valuable?
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 for businesses. It also comes with features like OpenShift Virtualization.
What needs improvement?
OpenShift Container Platform needs to work on integrations.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the tool's stability an eight out of ten. We encountered certain bugs and issues, which were resolved once we raised them with Red Hat.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate OpenShift Container Platform's scalability a ten out of ten. The autoscale feature is particularly beneficial for managing varying traffic loads on the platform. It automatically deploys additional VMs in response to high traffic and scales down when the traffic returns to normal levels. This feature is more powerful when deploying the OpenShift Container Platform on cloud platforms like AWS or Azure, where it adapts to the fluctuating traffic demands. My company has 15 customers who are mostly enterprise businesses.
How are customer service and support?
Red Hat offers good technical support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
I rate the product's deployment an eight out of ten. It was a little complex. There are two to three types of initial configuration, including UBI. UBI is complex. Deployment takes around two hours to complete.
The deployment process involves some complexity. We create configuration files and distribute these files to the platforms we work on, such as VMware or Nutanix. Subsequently, we initiate the initial deployment and configuration of OpenShift.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
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.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend studying the documentation thoroughly and preparing the infrastructure according to the guidelines. Following the documentation is crucial, and most issues reported were related to network problems. Therefore, I suggest becoming proficient in troubleshooting network issues to identify and resolve problems. I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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
Provides advanced features and enhanced security, but might pose a challenge in integration with Kubernetes
What is our primary use case?
We have been developing telco cloud-native applications that need to run on Kubernetes. In our deployments, we've used both, Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift.
How has it helped my organization?
The primary benefits we've observed primarily revolve around the security aspects.
In comparison to Kubernetes, OpenShift offers additional features, essentially making it an extended version with enhanced capabilities. It performs better, offering approximately thirty percent more than Kubernetes.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable are security features, particularly when operating in the cloud. It is considered a necessity, especially in our industry, given the critical nature of the infrastructure.
What needs improvement?
We've encountered challenges when transitioning applications between these environments. For example, an application that runs smoothly on standard Kubernetes might face compatibility issues when ported to OpenShift. This variation has posed some challenges for us, and it's something we're actively addressing. I think it's important to create a plan to ensure seamless compatibility between applications running on vanilla Kubernetes and those on OpenShift. This involves delineating features unique to each platform, such as those specific to vanilla Kubernetes and the additional capabilities offered by OpenShift. The goal is to make it feasible for an application designed for a more basic Kubernetes environment to run smoothly, providing valuable flexibility.
The introduction of OpenShift slowed down our development life cycle due to compatibility issues.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with it for four years.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We transitioned from Kubernetes to OpenShift because our customers specifically requested it.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate it seven out of ten.
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 .
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