Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud vs. SUSE Rancher

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

41 Reviews and Ratings

SUSE Rancher

SUSE Rancher

33 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a comprehensive service that offers fully managed OpenShift clusters, on IBM Cloud platform. It is directly integrated into the same Kubernetes service that maintains 25 billion on-demand forecasts daily at The Weather Company.	N/A
SUSE Rancher	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Developed by Rancher Labs and now from SUSE, Rancher is open-source software that enables organizations to deploy and manage Kubernetes at scale, on any infrastructure across the data center, cloud, branch offices, and the network edge. Rancher centrally manages Kubernetes clusters across the organization in order to ensure security and accelerate transformation. Rancher is also available hosted. Hosted Rancher is a fully managed Rancher control plane - presented as the fastest, most cost…	$7,594.99 per year up to 500 nodes

Pricing

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

SUSE Rancher

Editions & Modules

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Subscription license: 7,594.99
per year up to 500 nodes
Standard Subscription: 11,234.99
per year 10 nodes
Priority Subscription: 30,514.99
per year 10 nodes
Management Server Priority Subscription: 41,830.99
per year 1 instance

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud	SUSE Rancher
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud	SUSE Rancher
Considered Both Products	Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud CK chetan kapoor Lead Engineer Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 1. The pricing is better than the other competitors. 2. We are already using other services being offered by IBM, so it makes better sense to utilize the IBM cloud red hat open shift. 3. Support is also valuable. 4. security is good. 5. constant updates on clusters. 6. cloud … Incentivized Helpful? SR Stephen Rinaldi Creative Director Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Both have unique benefits for different uses. Docker is great for smaller projects on a single host or small cluster, whereas OpenShift is ideal when you need a scalable, fully managed, and secure Kubernetes platform. OpenShift also offers a more fully featured web-based … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is best when it comes to security capabilities and hybrid scenarios. With Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud we could provision new environments very quickly and in cost effective way. Customers could also use the cloud credits that they might have … Incentivized Helpful? CS Carlos Fernando Soares Junior SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a container application platform based on Kubernetes, that leverages our ability to start very quickly any containerized application developed with different languages, plus CI/CD, monitoring and logging and security. Incentivized Helpful? DP Dushyant Pathak Software Engineer Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Google Cloud Platform Incentivized Helpful? SB Susan Barker Sr. Domain Solution Architect, II Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud I prefer RedHat OpenShift because with kubernetes there are tons more installations and work effort required to get applications ready to run in the containerized environment. RedHat OpenShift is faster and easier to get up and running. Incentivized Helpful? Henry PAN Sr. Clouds Architecture/Advisor -iCTO Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Planning to do so late. The evaluation for more vendors is in the cooking, pending budget approval & assignment to the right top guns. With the recession looming, I do wish that this key project could get approved & more discoveries could be made soon as I wished before. Incentivized Helpful? SA Stuart Anderson Head of Innovation & IT Infrastructure Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud We evaluated a number of potential solutions and ultimately chose Red Hat OpenShift because it was compatible with our existing technology. Time and costs savings have been realized throughout the company since we implemented Red Hat OpenShift, and the IT department has been … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud We are using IBM Cloud App ID as a simple method to get an OIDC provider for our applications, that are running within the OpenShift cluster. Also, IBM Cloud Object Storage is used within the workload to store data via an s3 compliant way. The IBM Cloud Container Registry is an … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Red hat Openshift had a better user interface by far. Amazon EKS's was so basic it was essentially useless. We had to use a separate tool called lens to get basic stuff done. Lens was buggy and didn't work as well though, even for basic functionality like updating a K8s secret. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud For our particular use case, Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud was very cost-competitive. We already had RHEL, OpenShift, and Ansible skills that translated to the service. From a feature and function perspective, most solutions have a parity but being open source and less chance … Incentivized Helpful? Jaishankar Gothandaraman Watson Senior consultant Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud For one of our banking clients, I have explored and played around the Kubernetes platform on IBM Cloud. In the process to deploy the application, I had to create the deployment artifacts, which was quite cumbersome. But then for one of the automotive clients I was asked to … Incentivized Helpful? Gonzalo Angeleri Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager Chose Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud We tested Red Hat OpenShift on premise but we decided to go for a public cloud to reduce our infrastructure and pay for what we use. Incentivized Helpful?	SUSE Rancher Verified User Anonymous Chose SUSE Rancher SUSE Rancher is an excellent choice for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, especially when catering to different teams with distinct access rights and requirements. It allows us to deploy these clusters on-premises across various sites or in the cloud. However, if you’re … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SUSE Rancher We started using SUSE Rancher in the early days and spent a large amount of time getting to know and love it. This was before the days of some of the likes of Amazon Web Services who may now provide a cheaper but less feature-rich alternative to SUSE Rancher, however we have … Incentivized Helpful? Szymon Madej DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices Chose SUSE Rancher That is the one of the greatest values of Rancher. You can choose to add new features and functionalities to your environment by implementing other projects from SUSE, but you not forced to. You can use Longhorn as Persistent Storage, but you can use any other i.e. VMware CSI, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SUSE Rancher While Tanzu has a deeper integration in an existing VMWare cluster, we decided for SUSE Rancher because of a more open approach. Incentivized Helpful? AR Aman Rawal Senior Software Engineer Chose SUSE Rancher Lens Kubernetes IDE Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SUSE Rancher SUSE Rancher has the most complete Kubernetes GUI. Incentivized Helpful? Marcello Teodori Senior Manager Chose SUSE Rancher As we use only AWS EKS Clusters originally we were using the AWS Console and CLI but that is too limited in scope. Also, we were using AWS IAM roles to provide access to users but that was lots of extra work to have them integrated into SSO while on Rancher we have just … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SUSE Rancher I find SUSE Rancher easier to use and configure with the features I want to really use. I'm finding more people in the community to help in getting support for the product. The other competitors seem to lock you too much into their own ecosystems and keep many needed details … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SUSE Rancher SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE Manager and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SUSE Rancher lens installs locally and needs access (network) to the kube_api of the clusters. With Rancher, you need access to the rancher front end (UI / 443), and your clusters Kube API does not need to be exposed (even over a VPN or whitelisted ips). For security reasons, the rancher … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SUSE Rancher We were looking for an open-source solution for simply deploying and managing K8s on bare metal in both big and small environments. SUSE Rancher was the easiest to install. Rancher Kubernetes Engine (2) and K3s will give you just a plain simple Kubernetes environment. The … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SUSE Rancher SUSE Rancher has a great GUI, and seems to be a little bit mor open than the competitors. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

SUSE Rancher

Container Management

Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
	Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud 7.5 Ratings 3% below category average	SUSE Rancher 7.5 Ratings 3% below category average
Security and Isolation	8.80 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Container Orchestration	8.30 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Cluster Management	7.20 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Storage Management	7.00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization	7.40 Ratings	7.60 Ratings
Discovery Tools	6.90 Ratings	6.50 Ratings
Update Rollouts and Rollbacks	7.50 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Self-Healing and Recovery	7.60 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging	6.80 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud	SUSE Rancher
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (0 ratings)	6.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud	SUSE Rancher
Likelihood to Recommend	RedHat OpenShift is not only suited for IBM Cloud but can run in ANY cloud. We installed in Azure Cloud, for example. It can also run on Linux servers or a Power 9 machine. It is built for multi-cloud or on-prem environments. IBM support provides such excellent guidance in the installation and configuration that no other product on the market can beat it. Incentivized SB Susan Barker Sr. Domain Solution Architect, II Read full review	SUSE Rancher as a management tool becomes useful on a larger scale. Small deployments not so much. If someone also requires Kubernetes capacity or storage, Rancher is an excellent choice. Also, without Kubernetes' skills, it is unlikely that Rancher deployment is going to be a success. Then again if someone else is managing your Kubernetes capacity, setting up the software's capacity will yield greater control. Rancher is not a very integrated solution similar to others in the market. Incentivized Kim Aaltonen Managing Director Read full review
Pros	Multiclick provisioning of resources makes it super easy to manage pods and deployments. We don't have to maintain code for the same In built security features and customizability ensures that organization wide standards are integrated well into the containers Automated backups, scale ups and fail recovery makes sure of minimal down time Incentivized DP Dushyant Pathak Software Engineer Read full review	Public and private cloud infrastructure providers based on K8s CAPI REST API that can be used to integrate company services with Rancher GUI that is easy to learn and use in daily operations Builtin GitOps automation solution based on Fleet project It is fully open source Szymon Madej DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices Read full review
Cons	I wish it had better compatibility with docker file syntax. We had issues when it couldn't build standard docker files Wish it had better documentation Wish they offered fully supported client libraries for the Openshift API rather than dumping it on a 3rd party Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No possibility to snapshot Projects. You can snapshot and restore the whole Kubernetes cluster, but not a Project or Namespace. For this, you have to use external tools. You cannot detach the Rancher-created Kubernetes clusters from Rancher management. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Overall it deserves an 8 out of 10. The platform is very easy to use as long as the UI is stable. We have had a few buggy versions in the past. However the CLI is excellent and the platform is simple to manage and maintain. It is easy to deploy and offer for company wide use which increases utilization and ROI. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	I think response time for IBM Cloud support should be improved. Incentivized Gonzalo Angeleri Regional Product & Solution Architect Manager Read full review	The documentation is quite complete and there is a very active community that is willing to collaborate and answer questions for those who are just starting out. Jose Manuel Ortega Software Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We evaluated a number of potential solutions and ultimately chose Red Hat OpenShift because it was compatible with our existing technology. Time and costs savings have been realized throughout the company since we implemented Red Hat OpenShift, and the IT department has been freed up to focus on activities that are more valuable. Incentivized SA Stuart Anderson Head of Innovation & IT Infrastructure Read full review	SUSE Rancher is an excellent choice for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, especially when catering to different teams with distinct access rights and requirements. It allows us to deploy these clusters on-premises across various sites or in the cloud. However, if you’re dealing with only one or a few Kubernetes clusters, using SUSE Rancher might introduce unnecessary complexity. This is where EKS wins, as its native cloud based abilities are better suited to scale, support higher complexity and larger demand. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Our customer satisfaction and NPS score has had positive outcomes based on new architecture We are focused on business outcomes vs running the service and maintenance OpenShift on IBM Cloud has had a direct, positive impact on TCO, ROI, and payback period Our staff is more focused on higher-level business activities, i.e. acquiring & customer retention Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Shortens "Time-to-Market" factor for new business applications or implementing new functionalities. From 1 to 50 microservices-based business applications in 6 years. 24/7 availability, generates more money. There are many infrastructure components that are regularly powered-off for maintenance or upgrade, bur we rarely are turning off our downstream Kubernetes clusters where our business applications lives. Single Point of Contact with platform maintenance and development Team, eases implementation of new business applications Szymon Madej DevOps Architect for Containerization Platforms and Microservices Read full review
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