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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Docker

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADocker Enterprise was sold to Mirantis in 2019; that product is now sold as Mirantis Kubernetes Engine. But Docker now offers a 2-product suite that includes Docker Desktop, which they present as a fast way to containerize applications on a desktop; and, Docker Hub, a service for finding and sharing container images with a team and the Docker community, a repository of container images with an array of…

    $5

    per month

    Red Hat OpenShift

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AOpenShift 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.

    $0.08

    per hour

    Pricing
    DockerRed Hat OpenShift
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    unlimited public repositories
    Pro
    $5.00
    per month per user
    Team
    $7.00
    per month per user
    Business
    $21
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DockerRed Hat OpenShift
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DockerRed Hat OpenShift
    Considered Both Products
    Docker, Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Red Hat
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    261 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    217 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    266 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    174 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    211 Answers
    Features
    DockerRed Hat OpenShift
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Docker and Red Hat OpenShift
    Feature
    Docker
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    Ratings
    Red Hat OpenShift
    8.2
    192 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings8.4164 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings9.2182 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings7.8168 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings7.9151 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings8.3170 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings8.3157 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings8.5166 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings8.4159 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.8168 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings7.5165 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.3169 Ratings
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    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    JFrog Artifactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DockerRed Hat OpenShift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.3
    (206 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (128 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.3
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DockerRed Hat OpenShift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Docker, Inc
    You are going to be able to find the most resources and examples using Docker whenever you are working with a container orchestration software like Kubernetes. There will always some entropy when you run in a container, a containerized application will never be as purely performant as an app running directly on the OS. However, in most scenarios this loss will be negligible to the time saved in deployment, monitoring, etc.
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    Red Hat
    Red Hat OpenShift, despite its complexity and overhead, remains the most complete and enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform available. It excels in research projects like ours, where we need robust CI/CD, GPU scheduling, and tight integration with tools like Jupyter, OpenDataHub, and Quiskit. Its security, scalability, and operator ecosystem make it ideal for experimental and production-grade AI workloads. However, for simpler general hosting tasks—such as serving static websites or lightweight backend services—we find traditional VMs, Docker, or LXD more practical and resource-efficient. Red Hat OpenShift shines in complex, container-native workflows, but can be overkill for basic infrastructure needs.
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    Pros
    Docker, Inc
    • Packaging of application to limit the space occupied
    • Ease of running the application
    • Provide multiple ways to handle the application issues and integration of different components like pipeline, ansible, terraform etc
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    Red Hat
    • We had a few microservices that dealt with notifications and alerts. We used OpenShift to deploy these microservices, which handle and deliver notifications using publish-subscribe models.
    • We had to expose an API to consumers via MTLS, which was implemented using Server secret integration in OpenShift. We were then able to deploy the APIs on OpenShift with API security.
    • We integrated Splunk with OpenShift to view the logs of our applications and gain real-time insights into usage, as well as provide high availability.
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    Cons
    Docker, Inc
    • Docker hub image retention policy can be relaxed
    • Docker hub policies can be more developer friendly
    • Docker CLI help section can be improved
    • Image and container storage (local) management can be optimized
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    Red Hat
    • 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.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Docker, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    OpenShift is really easy of use through its management console. OpenShift gives a very large flexibility through many inbuilt functionalities, all gathered in the same place (it's a very convenient tool to learn DevOps technics hands on) OpenShift is an ideal integrated development / deployment platform for containers
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    Usability
    Docker, Inc
    I have been using Docker for more than 3 years and it really simplifies the modern application development and deployment. I like the ability of Docker to improve efficiency, portability and scalability for developers and operations teams. Another reason for giving this rating is because Docker integrates CI/CD pipelines very well
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    Red Hat
    The virtualization part takes some getting used to it you are coming from a more traditional hypervisor. Customization options are not intuitive to these users. The process should be more clear. Perhaps a guide to Openshift Virtualization for users of RHV, VMware, etc. would ease this transition into the new platform
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    Reliability and Availability
    Docker, Inc
    Haven't seen any outages, fatal/unrecoverable errors in my usage so far. Enough said.
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    Red Hat
    Redhat openshift is generally reliable and available platform, it ensures high availability for most the situations. in fact the product where we put openshift in a box, we ensure that the availability is also happening at node and network level and also at storage level, so some of the factors that are outside of Openshift realm are also working in HA manner.
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    Performance
    Docker, Inc
    Docker Desktop. The CPU high usage is a known issue. Needs fixing. Otherwise, it is great overall. Would not use anything else still.
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    Red Hat
    Overall, this platform is beneficial. The only downsides we have encountered have been with pods that occasionally hang. This results in resources being dedicated to dead or zombie pods. Over time, these wasted resources occasionally cause us issues, and we have had difficulty monitoring these pods. However, this issue does not overshadow the benefits we get from Openshift.
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    Support Rating
    Docker, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Every time we need to get support all the Red Hat team move forward looking to solve the problem. Sometimes this was not easy and requires the scalation to product team, and we always get a response. Most of the minor issues were solved with the information from access.redhat.com
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    In-Person Training
    Docker, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    I was not involved in the in person training, so i
    can not answer this question, but the team in my org worked directly
    with Openshift and able to get the in person training done easily, i did not
    hear problem or complain in this space, so i hope things happen
    seamlessly without any issue.
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    Online Training
    Docker, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    We went thru the training material on RH webesite, i think its very descriptive and the handson lab sesssions are very useful. It would be good to create more short duration videos covering one single aspect of openshift, this wll keep the interest and also it breaks down the complexity to reasonable chunks.
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    Implementation Rating
    Docker, Inc
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    Red Hat
    The learning curve is quite high but worth it.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Docker, Inc
    The reason why we are still using Docker right now is due to that is the best among its peers and suits our needs the best. However, the trend we foresee for the future might indicate Amazon lambda could potentially fit our needs to code enviornmentless in the near future.
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    Red Hat
    The Tanzu Platform seemed overly complicated, and the frequent changes to the portfolio as well as the messaging made us uneasy. We also decided it would not be wise to tie our application platform to a specific infrastructure provider, as Tanzu cannot be deployed on anything other than vSphere. SUSE Rancher seemed good overall, but ultimately felt closer to a DIY approach versus the comprehensive package that Red Hat OpenShift provides.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Docker, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    It's easy to understand what are being billed and what's included in each type of subscription. Same with the support (Std or Premium) you know exactly what to expect when you need to use it. The "core" unit approach on the subscription made really simple to scale and carry the workloads from one site to another.
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    Scalability
    Docker, Inc
    It is the only tool in our toolset that has not [had] any issues so far. That is really a mark of reliability, and it's a testimony to how well the product is made, and a tool that does its job well is a tool well worth having. It is the base tool that I would say any organisation must have if they do scalable deployment.
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    Red Hat
    This is a great platform to deployment container applications designed for multiple use cases. Its reasonably scalable platform, that can host multiple instances of applications, which can seamlessly handle the node and pod failure, if they are configured properly. There should be some scalability best practices guide would be very useful
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    Return on Investment
    Docker, Inc
    • Reduces the number of virtual machine which impacted our quarterly billing
    • Using docker with proxy we run multiple application on same port on same host.
    • impact on billing is we have to provide docker training to the people who are working on it.
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    Red Hat
    • All of the above. Red Hat OpenShift going into a developer-type setting can be stood up very quickly. There's a very short period to have developers onboard to it and they're able to become productive much faster than a grow your own type solution.
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