This product assessment is based on a synthesis of 76 recent reviews analyzing Red Hat OpenShift across multiple dimensions, including areas for improvement, ROI, and commonly used complementary software. Red Hat OpenShift is a container application platform that allows organizations to manage containerized applications. Reviewers indicate that OpenShift delivers significant value, particularly in decreasing time to market (17% of reviewers) and increasing productivity (12%). Decreased downtime is also a notable benefit, cited by 11% of users. However, areas for improvement exist. Documentation is a recurring concern, with 9.2% of reviewers citing a lack of clarity and detail. Installation complexity is another pain point, noted by 7.9% of reviewers, especially for new users. While some users express cost concerns (4%), the platform generally delivers a positive ROI.

Pros

Decreased time to market (17% of reviewers)
Increased productivity (12% of reviewers)
Reduced downtime (11% of reviewers)
Enhanced security posture (8% of reviewers)
Cost savings (8% of reviewers)

Cons

Inadequate documentation clarity and detail (9.2% of reviewers)
Complex installation process, especially for new users (7.9% of reviewers)
Operator functionalities need improvement (5.3% of reviewers)
Virtualization capabilities require enhancement (5.3% of reviewers)
Pricing and cost concerns (5.3% of reviewers)

What positive or negative impact (i.e. Return on Investment or ROI) has Red Hat OpenShift had on your overall business objectives?

From 76 reviews

Summary

This report synthesizes 76 recent reviews to assess the return on investment (ROI) of Red Hat OpenShift. A significant portion of reviewers indicate that OpenShift positively impacts their business objectives. Specifically, 17% (13 of 76) cite decreased time to market as a key benefit. Reviewers also frequently mention increased productivity, with 12% (9 of 76) reporting improvements in this area. Decreased downtime is another positive outcome, noted by 11% (8 of 76) of reviewers. Furthermore, OpenShift is credited with enhancing security posture and providing cost savings, each mentioned by 8% (6 of 76) of reviewers. In contrast, 4% of reviewers (3 of 76) mentioned mixed experiences regarding cost and ROI, with some finding it pricey, while others cited overall positive ROI.

Reviews

292 Reviews

OpenShift Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 3, 2025

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited if you are looking to do containers, if you're looking for an easy way to build a container platform, there's so much in it to easily do that. Right now it's not as great as handling VMs with my aforementioned comments about how it can improve. So I would say it's low point right now it's the VMs, but it looks like they're improving. But the high point is always containerization.

Victor Williams

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

Vetted Review

OpenShift Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spend less and have common platform for containers and VM

Pros

Open

Cons

Scale

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

OpenShift in Platform Engineering

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use OpenShift within multiple departments, but in mine specifically (integrated platform engineering) we use it for running pods related to hosting web apps for publication resources, running builds, and creating ephemeral testing environments for kits. We have 2 clusters not currently in production, and are working towards that this year.

Pros

Locked down RHCOS hosting vms
Operators make adding major features easier
Console is good for observability

Cons

Docs for installation are especially rough
Connectivity to LDAP for authentication is complex, especially for such a desirable feature
Cluster install takes too long to be truly ephemeral

Likelihood to Recommend

OpenShift is great for our business cases, where things like security and sign ons are a major concern. We've also automated a bit of the setup ourselves to make it easier. Without the prior experience i have, however, install would be infeasible without dedicated support from RH. I would not recommend for personal / community use

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Red Hat OpenShift Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Red Hat OpenShift is an ideal solution which gives unified platform for all kind of workload. Currently seeing the business requirements it is heavily being seen as an alternative for current virtualised platform due to commercials and non flexibility in the offering from legacy platforms.

Pros

Unified platform for Virtualised, containerised and AI workload.
Comprehensive application platform
Consistent across hybrid cloud

Cons

Compatibility with SAP workload
Complexity in setting up the build incase of migration, like network, storage configuration which are done manually can also be automated.
Compatibility with oracle

Likelihood to Recommend

Red Hat has proven OpenShift as a validated solution as per the customer’s requirements and seeing the current market landscape. It gives flexibility in choosing your own solution and workout based on the workload present in the customer’s current environment.

Verified User

Partner in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

4 years of experience

Red Hat OpenShift

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The previous pod cluster did not have a horizontal autoscaling feature however the Red Hat OpenShift has it.

Pros

GUI
Does not require Kubernetes knowledge

Cons

Should have RHACS buit in

Likelihood to Recommend

Even if you don't have the detailed knowledge of Kubernetes you can use it to run on top of the Red Hat OpenShift.

Masa Taguchi

Solution Architect in Information Technology at JRI (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Red Hat OpenShift AI to develop AI solutions within my team
It makes it easy to explore, test, and deploy AI solutions quickly. We are trying to create solutions for energy systems, like forecasting and anomaly detection systems. Red Hat OpenShift provides a nice interface o walk me through the steps of creating models for this use-case.

Pros

It makes it easy to deploy stuff
Performance

Likelihood to Recommend

AI development

Verified User

Employee in Engineering (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Trusted partner

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use for our containerized workloads and it addressed the orchestration issue and support we get

Pros

Orchestration
Observability
resiliency
all in one stack
ACM and ACS

Cons

Red Hat OpenShift service mesh 3.x
Monitoring stack
Observability

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for Java workloads that needs UBI and on JBOSS EAP, Spring Boot, JWS etc

Verified User

Director in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Red Hat OpenShift review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we are using Red Hat OpenShift on top of azure infrastructure to host [...] applications.it allows us to manage ~300 clusters in azure , deal with complex use case and many security and compliance challenges.
We are also migrating applications from on premise cluster to asure and we are relying on Red Hat OpenShift to be able to operate thoses clusters.

Pros

machineset management
days2 operator deployment
cluster operator reconciliation

Cons

olm stability
Native progressive node recycle
Remove default worker that are needed for the OCP install

Likelihood to Recommend

+ Easy way to deploy clusters of many cloud provider
+ Having RedHat support in case of issue is always something good
+ Solve many complex challenge : pcii dss , security requirement etc ...
+ the support of many operator is easing the life of SRE/dev

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Red Hat OpenShift the cloud-native platform for everyone

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Container development, and the needs of develop cloud-native ready apps

Pros

Stability
Simplicity
Security

Cons

Secrets Management by it-self
On-board deployment

Likelihood to Recommend

Is the best solution to get virtualization and container in one-console experience

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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