Based on 6 verified reviews published in the last 18 months
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Overview
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
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 (10,001+ employees)
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)
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 (5001-10,000 employees)
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 (10,001+ employees)
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.
