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Synthesised from 6 reviews | Last Published May 26, 2026

Red Hat OpenShift is utilized by manufacturing organizations to modernize application hosting and accelerate development cycles, particularly for specialized internal workloads within the operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) convergence landscape. The platform serves as a shared tenancy Kubernetes solution, enabling more agile deployment of smaller applications, testing environments, and development systems critical for production processes and logistics. In TrustRadius reviews, it provides a consistent development environment, reducing discrepancies for teams facing workstation restrictions.

Reviewers highlight its streamlined deployment and management, contributing to operational continuity and faster time-to-value for technology investments. However, the cost model, particularly for bare metal licensing, is a significant concern for manufacturing firms, impacting budget predictability and scalability, as cited by two of five reviewers. Overall, while offering agility for development, its financial implications warrant careful evaluation in cost-sensitive manufacturing environments.

Pros

  • Streamlined deployment and management for production-critical applications
  • Accelerates application development for manufacturing processes and logistics
  • Provides a consistent development environment across teams
  • Robust on-premises and bare metal deployment options for OT environments
  • User-friendly interface aids rapid integration of new applications

Cons

  • High cost model, particularly for bare metal licensing
  • Impacts budget predictability and long-term operational expenditure
  • Potential barrier for broader adoption due to perceived high cost
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Red Hat OpenShift Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As I assume for most companies using Red Hat OpenShift, we use the platform as an efficient and automating tool to manage and deploy our containerized applications across several environments. We often use Red Hat OpenShift for our Docker containers to package applications and their dependencies and monitoring their status to help us determine if any issues arise or develop from new code changes.

Pros

  • Great at helping develop and manage containers
  • Helps modernize our older applications
  • Gives Enterprise-Grade features needed for developming our system for our customer.

Cons

  • Reduce complexity for smaller teams/projects/companies
  • More optimization of resource consumption.
  • Improved debugging and troubleshooting tools.

Likelihood to Recommend

When working with containers on our system, there is multiple team members that may be changing, developing, and/or deploying containers around the same time of day. Using Red Hat OpenShift allows us to work seamlessly together. However, when it comes for simple changes/testing, I feel it is often quicker for me to work manually within the containers to then just make developments and then redeploy.
SP
Steven Pazienza
Systems Engineer in Engineering at Collins Aerospace (Aviation & Aerospace, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Red Hat OpenShift
1 year of experience

Why we decided to choose Red Hat OpenShift

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We run Red Hat OpenShift as our Enterprise Shared tenancy kuberbnetes solution for smaller applications, testing, and development workloads. We also use it for dedicated clusters for more complex and intensive workloads. For our development systems we are using DevSPaces to provide a common development environment and assist with restrictions we case with running Linux on development workstations.

Pros

  • It makes meeting Industry Compliance standards much easier
  • It's 'opinionated' choice on many common services helps narrow down selection processes
  • Red Hat OpenShift support for our clusters is critical for our success

Cons

  • I think Red Hat OpenShift is expensive

Likelihood to Recommend

Red Hat OpenShift is well suited for CI/CD pipeline development
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (Defense & Space company, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Red Hat OpenShift
3 years of experience

OpenShift review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SRC is one of the biggest system integrator in Slovenia. As a Red Hat partner we provide our customers solutions their problems. As part of our portfolio we install and maintain their environments. We also help their developers to develop and deopy applications faster using OpenShift.

Pros

  • very easy to maintain
  • integration of different software and product
  • very stable and reaiable platform

Cons

  • very expensive new bare metal licencing (you should allow customers to buy old 64core licences)

Likelihood to Recommend

I will advise every customer to use OpenShift.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Corporate (Computer Hardware company, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Red Hat OpenShift
4 years of experience

Red Hat

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

used on our platform to allow applications to develop

Pros

  • System is efficient
  • Easily understood by staff and users

Cons

  • More economic arrangements for use

Likelihood to Recommend

Fit for purpose
VU
Verified User
Professional in Corporate (Defense & Space company, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Red Hat OpenShift
1 year of experience

Red Hat OpenShift Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use single OpenShift on our on-premise cloud end on bigger edge locations

Pros

  • fully integration of the kubernetes landscape
  • easy out of the box installation

Cons

  • less specific OpenShift CRD's but more common open source CRD's what other products are also using.
  • Make the integrated software like Granfan, Falco more loosely coupled so it easier to choose another product

Likelihood to Recommend

For the more bigger production applications OpenShift works well, on the development side it has his downsides.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (Defense & Space company, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Red Hat OpenShift
20 years of experience

OpenShift Container Platform Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use OpenShift as our productive container platform on-prem and in the cloud

Pros

  • operates on all the cloud platforms
  • Provides documentation

Cons

  • provide a better solution for windows containers.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is likely the best Enterprise Kubernetes available today.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (Pharmaceuticals company, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Red Hat OpenShift
9 years of experience

I Recommend Openshift for Container deployments

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Extensively used Red Hat OpenShift to deploy application workloads in containers. OpenShift can be deployed over onpremise (Virtual machines / bare metal) and in Cloud (Private or Public). Also Red Hat offers managed cloud services over AWS, Azure, Google and IBM Clouds where cluster will be managed by Red Hat & respective cloud providers. As customer we just need to manage the workloads. This will reduce burden on managing the OpenShift clusters separately. Using Red Hat OpenShift over around seven years by now. Support perspective, it should be improved a bit.

Pros

  • Core OS
  • Automation with OCP 4
  • GitOps

Cons

  • Support

Likelihood to Recommend

Get Cloud capabilities at onpremise. Red Hat OpenShift can be deployed over onpremise (Virtual machines / bare metal). Applications running over OpenShift containers can be scaled based on needs. In event of application traffic surge, horizontal pod scaling would help to automatically scale application pods when traffic surges. Only catch here is Red Hat OpenShift should have sufficient worker capacity to support the scaling.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (Aviation & Aerospace company, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Red Hat OpenShift
7 years of experience

My Experience with Red Hat OpenShift

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) to run our AAP and EDA applications. We ARO, we're able to scale up and down easily as needed, and with AAP managing over 3000 servers across multiple teams, that's a huge advantage. We are also looking into moving other Kubernetes workloads into ARO.

Pros

  • Ease of management
  • Logging
  • Auditing

Cons

  • Faster deployment
  • Slightly less confusing tables
  • More graphs

Likelihood to Recommend

Red Hat OpenShift is best suited for container workloads where High Availability is of utmost importance. Between the high availability and the rolling upgrades, Red Hat OpenShift makes sense to be the top choice for those types of workloads. Red Hat OpenShift makes Kubernetes even easier to manage and administer.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (Food Production company, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Red Hat OpenShift
1 year of experience

Red Hat OpenShift review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Right now the largest use that we're seeing for it with a lot of our customers is around Red Hat OpenShift virtualization. Due to some of the turmoil in the market and some of the moves and some of the products that are being discontinued, there's a huge demand for customers to take their virtual machine workloads and move them to another location. Right now, the best choice for that is Red Hat OpenShift virtualization.

Pros

  • Red Hat has gone a very long way towards making the migration from other hypervisors, such as Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or VMware into Red Hat OpenShift virtualization. So the migration, albeit offline, works very well.

Cons

  • I don't know that it would actually be possible, but minimizing the downtime and being able to facilitate a migration without service outages.

Likelihood to Recommend

I've seen multiple universities that have quite investments in Red Hat enterprise virtualization. They don't want to go with the VMware route due to the expense. So Red Hat OpenShift virtualization is a natural fit for them in that environment. I've also seen a lot of VMware customers that are not able financially to sustain the cost increases with the product. So they're looking for an alternative. And Red Hat OpenShift virtualization fills that need.
TC
Thomas Crowe
Senior Principal Consultant in Professional Services at Emergent (Biotechnology, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
Red Hat OpenShift
10 years of experience

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