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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Red Hat JBoss EAP

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AN/AN/A
    Pricing
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Considered Both Products
    Red Hat
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    It definitely has additional bells and vessels like SM, UI and monitoring/logging stack
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    Openshift provides a way to deploy Containerized Java applications running on JBoss EAP and RHEL in a very easy way. Reducing server preparation time, hardening-server headaches, and deploying to different stages nightmares.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    Containers are much more efficient.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    By security, stability and all ecosystem development life cycle tools.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat OpenShift
    OpenShift is a CAAS (container as a service platform). This is a virtualization technology that can compare with traditionnal VAAS (VM as a service) technologies but Openshift is lightweight and fast. Everybody in the IT world is now going to Containers. This is a disruptive …
    Incentivized
    Red Hat
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    261 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    217 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    266 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    174 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    211 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    Feature
    Red Hat OpenShift
    8.2
    192 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    -
    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
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    Feature
    Red Hat OpenShift
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    8.6
    8 Ratings
    8% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings8.18 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings8.68 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.18 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings8.68 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings9.58 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.68 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat JBoss EAP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (206 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (23 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (128 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (8 ratings)
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Red Hat OpenShiftRed Hat JBoss EAP
    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
    JBoss EAP is subscription based/open source platform. It's very reliable and great for deploying high transaction Java based enterprise applications. It integrates well with third party components like mod_cluster and supports popular Java EE web-based frameworks such as Spring, Angular JS, jQuery Mobile, and Google Web Toolkit.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Red Hat
    • MOD_CLUSTER integration. JBoss EAP integrates pretty well with mod_cluster. This is an intelligent load balancer especially useful in highly clustered environments.
    • Supports enterprise-grade features such as high availability clustering, distributed caching, messaging etc.
    • Supports deployment in on-premise, virtual and hybrid cloud environments.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Red Hat
    • Jboss CLI is a great tool but we had trouble using it to get values that are displayed on Jboss GUI. It also has limitations parsing the applications.xml files and we had to use a mix of jboss-cli and linux bash commands to automate certain application administrative tasks.
    • JBoss doesn't really provides performance tuning recommendations. It would have been nice if it could learn from the current demand vs current settings for things like connection pool, server configurations, garbage collection etc.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Red Hat
    We are planning to migrate away from Jboss to Tomcat as Jboss has shown not interest in supporting OSGi which is heavily used at our shop
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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
    JBoss overall is easy to use. The installation and deployment of applications are quick. Documentations and support are also readily available.
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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
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Usually, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is good at performance and well suited for high traffic Java EE-based applications, but we have faced hard times performance tuning it for our specific needs. The product would be nicer if they would add a performance diagnostic and recommendations feature to it.
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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
    Fast response.
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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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    Red Hat
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    Implementation Rating
    Red Hat
    The learning curve is quite high but worth it.
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    Red Hat
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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
    We selected JBoss because of compatibility with EJB's. We currently are trying to reduce our footprint and will highly consider using Tomcat.
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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
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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
    • Improved delivery timelines due to easy out of the box setup.
    • It is a cheap subscription-based/open-source Java EE-based application server. This reduces the overall cost of delivery.
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