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    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.

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    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.N/A
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    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Considered Both Products
    Red Hat
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    Nothing like OpenShift. Actually, this was our first one. We toyed with maybe doing raw Kubernetes, but with an enterprise company you need an enterprise product.
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    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    It definitely has additional bells and vessels like SM, UI and monitoring/logging stack
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    Tanzu is great as well, but I find Red Hat OpenShift more cost friendly and more Opensource apps available.
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    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    we just got into Red Hat OpenShift and never got back
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    AAP is one of the great deployment tool , it is the most efficient way to deploy apps by creating a quick self manage playbooks.
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    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    They are all nice products, and they all have their place. But I'm convinced that from now on, instead of instantly just creating a Kubernetes cluster, I'm going to start seeing if Red Hat OpenShift is the best answer based on the project's overall needs. It's truly made that …
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    We have only used Red Hat OpenShift.
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    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    We have only used Openshift.
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    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    Our developer community is using Red Hat OpenShift for years and they are familiar and comfortable with the product. Red Hat OpenShift UI makes it easier for new developers to adopt without knowing much of Kubernetes. Our platform team feels it’s easy to mange the cluster and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    So far Red Hat OpenShift seems to be the superior Kubernetes platform manager.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    It is a great compliment to the other services.
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    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    These were both stood up for separate products. Needless to say the workloads on CDP are going to be migrated to Red Hat OpenShift in the very near future.
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    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    kubernaties falls a bit short where Red Hat OpenShift gives a batter way to manage
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    Red Hat
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Rocky Linux. CentOS, Arch about every distribution of Linux. Stability and reliability are king and the support. If something happens or you just hit a bug, that's why you go to Red Hat.
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    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    RHEL because of more wide adoption, stability, general knowledge on the platform and less nonsensical approach to various platform functionalities
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    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    About he same but is way more mature just because it has been around much longer
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    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    I feel that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is more user friendly than SLES. There are slight differences and I think Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) has the edge over SLES.
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    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the goto Linux operating system compared to Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux when you need / want an RPM based operating system, no questions asked. Some applications only support Debian based operating systems which is disappointing, and thus Ubuntu is the …
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    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    It helps and can be used in red hat open shift vms.
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    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Containers vs not
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    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers us the flexibility to choose our flavor of virtualization. As our forecasts are inputted, we can either use OpenStack or OpenShift to suit our needs.
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    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Our use of RHEL has been orthogonal to our exploration of OpenShift and Kubernetes. We have experimented with using minimal footprint RHEL instances inside containers to minimize the total size of our containers.
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    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    We selected due to easy and ustomers aready adoptoed
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    205 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Feature
    Red Hat OpenShift
    8.2
    192 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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    Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces8.4164 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability9.2182 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform management overhead7.8168 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability7.9151 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform access control8.3170 Ratings00 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration8.3157 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment creation8.5166 Ratings00 Ratings
    Development environment replication8.4159 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification7.8168 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue recovery7.5165 Ratings00 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes8.3169 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (206 ratings)
    9.3
    (109 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (23 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (128 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (8 ratings)
    8.5
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Red Hat
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is well suited for cloud environments, fast deployments and to run non-intensive apps/tools (with low memory and low cpu consumption).Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) might not be suited for really huge databases and intensive CPU processing.
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    Pros
    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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    Red Hat
    • Virtualization, like the operating system level task. I see this product is very good and it blends very well with the middleware components like all the JBoss and other things. And other than that, either you install it or a virtual machine or physical servers, it works seamlessly anywhere. And if you want to go further, like Red Hat OpenShift or those things also work very nice with it.
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    Cons
    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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    Red Hat
    • In the LEAP process. The upgrading process, which I'm hearing, like I said it before, prior that I was on rail seven, eight, and nine. Trying to get all of that to rail nine and stay current. The LEAP process from seven to eight is a little bit less than desired. I've talked to some people that from once you get on eight from eight to nine to nine to 10 is a breeze. So I'm looking forward to that.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Red Hat
    We find RHEL to be a superior OS with stable operations and long life. It is also easier to use and fix then most other OS's.
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    Usability
    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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    Red Hat
    The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distro is the simplest enterprise version of Red Hat that is enterprise supported and when you deploy as many VMs as we do, it is vital to have that enterprise support. On top of the enterprise support, having access to a commercially supported backbone for updates and upgrades is a huge plus.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Red Hat
    Product support and regular patches.
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    Performance
    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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    Red Hat
    As with any OS enhanced testing will need to be done prior to application integration.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Red Hat support has really come a long way in the last 10 years, The general support is great, and the specialized product support teams are extremely knowledgeable about their specific products. Response time is good and you never need to escalate.
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    In-Person Training
    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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    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    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
    Red Hat
    The learning curve is quite high but worth it.
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    Red Hat
    Don't be afraid of it, its easy to install and configure for the tasks needed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Red Hat
    So we in our company have used Ubuntu as well. Sometimes we have to use that because a certain application installer requires that we use that operating system, but we really don't prefer it just because it doesn't come with the same Add-on features that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) really great, like Red Hat Insights or Red Hat satellite, things like that. They come package with it. So that would be the main one. I've also used things like FreeBSD, but I think that's just too old at this point to care.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    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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    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    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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    Red Hat
    Operational ease of use backed by support
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Red Hat
    • RHEL provides a good base OS and additional tool sets for various deployments.
    • We are able to use Satellite to manage hundreds of OS's behind our corporate firewall. No other OS provides the level that RHEL does.
    • It is a known good quantity. Their support for the OS is amazing.
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