I have not used it on IBM Cloud. It is basically used on AWS and Azure. I am using a standard OpenShift.
OpenShift is a container orchestration tool. We have been using it for hosting products on container-based applications.
Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine
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One of the best Kubernetes platform
What do you like best about the product?
It is very easy to configure and use. Containers are supported natively but the ease of orchestration and management of the containers through RedHat OpenShift Kubernetes are far more delighted.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as such. It provides great support with CICD pipelines or even harness, which is the bare minimum expectation and but this service provides way more than that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickly running our containerized application on Kubernetes provides a lot of flexibility. We have seasonal demands for the workloads and it outshines the way it handles the load demand.
Great Tool for Containerization and Management
What do you like best about the product?
- Easy Interface
- Effective Container Management
- Easy Application Management
- Effective Container Management
- Easy Application Management
What do you dislike about the product?
- Not much, its very good tool for migrating to containers for any application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Application MicroServices Running and Management
- Easy Interface and user comfort
- Effective Application Uptime
- Easy Interface and user comfort
- Effective Application Uptime
Highly extensible UI to manage k8s with integrated CI/CD
What do you like best about the product?
Its UI to manage most of k8s resources , built in security feature and CI/CD
What do you dislike about the product?
In the time of trouble with the cluster you have to debug one more extra layer apart from k8s i.e openshift
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides platform on top of k8s to manage several things.
A tool that offers a good production environment that is much more stable
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Actually, what happens is that the solution gives or provides that kind of stability and much more. It gives a good production environment that is much more stable and error-free. That's how the solution contributes to the productivity of my whole organization.
What is most valuable?
If we compare OpenShift and Kubernetes Harbor, OpenShift is derived from Kubernetes. However, some of the most prominent features of OpenShift are its security services and some of the policies, especially security policies that are some of the add-ons and the best things I like in OpenShift.
What needs improvement?
Some things need to be improved in the solution. Some of the storage services and integrations with third-party tools should be made possible.
I think some more things will come in, like the projects of CNCFs. I think that verified CNCF projects will be integrated into OpenShift.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using OpenShift for eighteen months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
I think the support is fine. It depends upon some of the SLAs and how things or how the SLAs have been maintained. Overall, it is fine, so I will rate the support a seven out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
Initially, the setup seemed to be complex, but the recommendations from Red Hat, and especially on the CoreOS systems, for quality, stability, and security purposes, it seems to be complex. However, once we get hands-on experience, it is very, very useful and easily maintainable as well.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment, and it depends upon the types and the nature of some of the most critical applications that have been hosted on the OpenShift infrastructure. Considering in terms of stability, performance-wise, and security-wise, if everything goes fine, I think its return on investment is justified.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price depends on the type and the nature of the organizations, along with the types of projects that are of considerable range. I don't think the price is very much of an issue for any organization against the services being delivered over the cloud and the services of OpenSuite.
What other advice do I have?
If any organization is just working on open-source technologies and wants to have enterprise support and enterprise-grade solutions, then we must go with OpenShift.
Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Smooth and dependable product
What do you like best about the product?
What I like about this product is it provides multi-cloud deployment, which means to support across multiple cloud providers such as AWS, azure as well as on-premises environments, offering flexibility and avoiding dependency on a single vendor.
I can manage the whole cluster with a single dashboard that Openshift provides.
I can manage the whole cluster with a single dashboard that Openshift provides.
What do you dislike about the product?
Well, as a beginner, I found it complex to operate the platform with extensive features and configuration options. Also, we can say that it is a resource-hungry platform requiring a significant amount of CPU, memory and storage to run effectively.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps me to run the microservices on premises. A cost-saving solution of my work.
Abstraction on the top of native kubernetes
What do you like best about the product?
The UI interface provided by openshift is the best and most attractive thing that I have used so far. I fact the native kubernetes is quite tough but when you use openshift then you find high level commands and interfaces which makes thing easier for developer to understand.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much, I would love if openshift could provide more tutorial for pod deployment in golang then it would be nice for developers like us who have recently dive into this technology.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted to host our containers as adapters inside the pod.
Efficient Container Management Platform
What do you like best about the product?
It is comprehensive container management capabilities that streamline the lifecycle. With openshift we can build, deploy and scale containerised applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
Running an openshift cluster requires significant computational resources, making it demanding interns of infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves challenges of conatiner, enabling efficient deployment & management of application. It helped me in service discovery and continous integration/deployment.
Red hat Open shift Kubernetes engine
What do you like best about the product?
It is powered by Kubernetes as the container orchestration engine. It gives access to a community of experts, thousands of software, cloud and hardware partners,knowledge resources and support tools you can't get anywhere else.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes specific bugs require more digging to find out what caused it. Porting of licenses which have been taken directly with the service provider is not very easy to be migrated to the SAAS version managed by AWS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides the basic functionality of Red Hat Openshift. It offers a subset of the features that the Red Hat Openshift container Platform offers, like full access to an enterprise-ready Kubernetes environment and an extensive compatibility test matrix with many of the software elements that you might use in your data center.
A stable and scalable solution for microservices and Kubernetes distribution
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution to split monolithic into microservices. I mostly use OpenShift as a Kubernetes distribution.
What is most valuable?
I am impressed with the product's security features.
What needs improvement?
The tool lacks some features to make it compliant with Kubernetes.
For how long have I used the solution?
I am working with the solution for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The tool is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The cloud version is scalable. The solution's on-prem scalability can be improved.
How are customer service and support?
The tool's support should be improved.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The tool's deployment takes a matter of hours to complete. You need a team of three to four to maintain the solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The product's support is expensive. I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. The tool requires knowledgeable people to manage it.
Fast development, improved quality, and easy management
What is our primary use case?
We use it for container management. It's our container management platform for our financial systems.
How has it helped my organization?
It provides flexibility and efficiency. It helps us to design and deliver applications efficiently. We can modify our application in a smaller scope. We don't need to change the whole application.
It makes development fast because we can separate applications into different parts. We can deliver applications in different phases.
It has helped to improve the quality of our end products. It has reduced the project onboarding time by 20% to 25%.
What is most valuable?
I like OCP, and the management UI is better than the open-source ones.
The integration with 3scale is very good. We use that too.
What needs improvement?
The monitoring part could be better to monitor the performance. The automation part could also be better because we had a hard time integrating our application with OCP.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using this solution for about two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's scalable for one cluster. When it comes to multiple clusters, it could be better.
We have about 100 users who use this solution.
How are customer service and support?
Their enterprise support is okay, but sometimes, their response is slow. Their response is also not accurate sometimes. It's not right.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I didn't use it, but my company used the PKS solution.
How was the initial setup?
It's straightforward. The setup took two to three days.
What other advice do I have?
Red Hat is quite okay as a partner for helping us create the platform that we need. They do help you. They also provide training.
We use Red Hat AMQ streams and 3scale, and its integration with other Red Hat solutions is okay. The advantage of using multiple products from the same vendor is that you can get help from one company. You don't have to go to multiple companies.
It gives me the security that I need, but I didn't evaluate the security much. There is another department that's responsible for that.
I would recommend this solution to others, and overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.
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