Red Hat OpenShift

Score9.3 out of 10

401 Reviews and Ratings

What is Red Hat OpenShift?

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

Categories & Use Cases

Scalability
Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand
Category average: 8.2
Development environment creation
Ease of creating new development environments
Category average: 8
Ease of building user interfaces
Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools
Category average: 7.9

Platform management overhead
Resources required to keep platform up and running
Category average: 7.4
Issue monitoring and notification
Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems
Category average: 7.3
Issue recovery
Ease of recovery from problem state
Category average: 7.3

Rainer Weninger

Platform Engineer in Information Technology at SCCH (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Red Hat OpenShift as a flexible MLOps platform through OpenDataHub, enabling streamlined model training, tracking, and deployment workflows. It serves as the backbone for our AI Inference Server, allowing us to scale and manage containerized inference endpoints efficiently. Additionally, Red Hat OpenShift hosts our IBM Qiskit development environment via JupyterHub, supporting quantum computing research and prototyping. This setup addresses challenges in deploying reproducible ML pipelines, managing compute resources, and integrating emerging technologies like quantum computing. The scope includes AI/ML development, automated deployment, and hybrid cloud scalability across our research and enterprise infrastructure.

Pros

Hosting Red Hat OpenShift AT (OpenDataHub)
LORA Training for Models
Hositng Inference Systems with MCP Connections
Running Development Pods for Research Projects

Cons

The complexity. Some errors occur of systems that cant interact with each other I even dont know run. The system is way to complex in its structure. It is not a OCP issue itself but Kubernetes. To get more adapted, it must be much more integrated and stable.
The UI is part of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It should also be on the Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine (in a simpler way)
Update Process is failing way too often. There are always issues.
The User enforcement cant be used in our environment. We need root in pods per standard. This is quite complicated in Red Hat OpenShift.

Return on Investment

As a research-focused organization, traditional Time-to-Market isn't a key metric for us—but Red Hat OpenShift has significantly expanded our ability to explore and prototype novel AI and quantum simulation workflows without infrastructure bottlenecks.
The integrated OpenDataHub and JupyterHub environments have improved our productivity by providing a centralized, scalable platform for AI model development and quantum computing experiments.
Red Hat OpenShift’s strong security model and operator lifecycle management have allowed us to safely experiment with cutting-edge technologies while maintaining a stable and compliant infrastructure.
While operational costs are higher than simpler setups, the flexibility and innovation it enables have delivered strong research ROI.

Alternatives Considered

HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric (MapR) and HPE Ezmeral Machine Learning Ops

Other Software Used

Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, Docker, Azure AI Studio

Victor Williams

Linux Administrator in Information Technology at Blue Cross from Blue Shield of Alabama (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Primarily right now we're doing with VMs. We were a Rev customer and migrated our Rev VM workloads to OpenShift virtualization. We also have our eye on the future with container environment, so it fits perfectly into what we were doing now and what we look to do in the future.

Pros

It's a one pane of glass, so when we have Rev only it was a hypervisor for VMs. OpenShift, you can put Ansible in it, you can hook into satellite, it can do with OpenShift AI. You can do AI models and stuff like that. So I think it's more like a Swiss Army knife rather than a fire extinguisher.

Cons

OpenShift virtualization has a little room for improvement. I'm coming from it as a Rev customer. There's some things in that OpenShift virtualization that were in Rev that I would like to see in OpenShift virtualization. I realized that they're chasing the VMware crowd and that's fine, but from us old Rev customers, we'd like to see some things that was in Rev around via migration and things of that nature that could be in OpenShift virtualization, I hope is being planned to be put in.

Return on Investment

It has allowed us to see where we need to be in the container world. I'm going to call it a net neutral impact, not negative or positive. It has given us a sense of what we are ready for and what we're not ready for. You know where you stand.
You don't know what you don't know, so it helps us know what we want to know.

Alternatives Considered

Kubernetes

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Usability

Victor Fim

Software Engineering in Information Technology at Vale (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Red Hat OpenShift is used to run microsservices responsible for integrating our systems around the world and our SAP. We currently have two instances of Red Hat OpenShift, one running in Azure (ARO) and another one running on premises to establish data transfer between our factories with MESS systems and SAP. We keep also B2B to manage services along the railroad that we use.

Pros

System Integration
Microssevices Management
Fast CI/CD Integration

Cons

DevOps
Systems Integration
Software development modernization

Return on Investment

Fast Development
Free to choose how to develop our services
Multi-Cloud platform

Alternatives Considered

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform

Other Software Used

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, TIBCO BusinessEvents, Azure Event Hubs

Austin Allen

Systems Engineer in Information Technology at paychex (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a heavy consumer of Red Hat OpenShift. We use Red Hat OpenShift to host applications that do not currently use or need persistent storage. We have over 200,000 running containers across 64 clusters, and it solves the problem of moving away from the monolithic architecture and utilize microservices which Red Hat OpenShift easily allows us to do.

Pros

Easily deploy Kubernetes Pods in a user friendly way
Great support for the product when issues arise in the environment
Maintenance and patching the environment is easier than ever

Cons

Sometimes alerting can be genetic and hard to troubleshoot, usually the alert is indirectly correlated to another issue
Sometimes the UI can be slow at responding to listing pods, containers, etc

Return on Investment

The ability to easily scale applications across datacenters
Savings on hardware costs due to the nature of Kubernetes

Other Software Used

HashiCorp Vault, Hyper-V

Cristian Bustos

BDM in Information Technology at ST Computacion (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hello! We use Red Hat OpenShift to containerize our applications, particularly the SaaS services we provide to our clients. Additionally, as a Red Hat partner, we are a CCSP. Along with this, we have associated services for which we deliver this type of solution.

Hola! Usamos Red Hat OpenShift para contenerizar nuestras applications, en particular, servicios del tipo SaaS que brindamos a nuestros clientes. Ademas, como partner de Red Hat, somo CCSP, y Junto a ello, tenemos servicios asociados a los cuales entregamos este tipo de solucion.

Pros

Containerization
Virtualization
Optimization
Contenerizacion
Virtualizacion
Optimizacion

Cons

In software development
infrastructure management and optimization
cost reduction
En El desarrollo de software
manejo y optimizacion de infraestructura
reduccion de costos

Return on Investment

faster production of our services
Cost reduction due to better management and problem resolution
Disadvantage: longer adoption time for the work team.
mayor rapidez de puesta en produccion de nuestros servicios
Baja de costos, debido a la mejor administracion y resolution de problemas
Desventaja, mayor tiempo de adopcion para El equipo de trabajo.

Other Software Used

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

SUSE Rancher

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Tanzu Application Platform

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Scalability

Development environment creation

Ease of building user interfaces

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Platform management overhead

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

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