Red Hat OpenShift virtualization platform is a swift platform for VMware alternative, considering for both virtualization and containerization platform move with in the on prem hardware, migration from VMware to Red Hat OpenShift virtualization is the go to platform. A good platform for the near platform with all the VMware features
Pros
VM to VM migration from different virtualization platform
VM to Containerization platform
More Secure and reliable
Cons
Support 3rd party backup tools
Default Tools for evaluating the current workloads and dashboard
AI features for best practices
Likelihood to Recommend
Most trusted platform for easy migration particularly from VMware
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Engineer in Engineering (Retail company, 1001-5000 employees)
We started using Red Hat OpenShift for our loyalty programs. We are actively looking at other apps to move to Red Hat OpenShift.
Pros
Availability
Scalability
Reliability
Cons
The upgrades are a bit complicated without a TAM
Likelihood to Recommend
Scaling is a huge deal for us since we have rushes over lunch and dinner times. The ability to scale and spin down instances to conserve resources is very helpful for us.
We use RH OpenShift to reduce our stores' overall hardware count and save on costs. The business problem is that it's becoming too costly to maintain our physical hardware at 280+ stores, and we know that we can move all of our core services onto OpenShift clusters and reduce the physical hardware count at our stores.
Pros
Containerizing our services.
High-availability and scalability.
Being a cost-effective solution.
Cons
More reliable upgrade path (in terms of security).
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are going to start using Kubernetes or thinking of moving to Kubernetes from a pre-existing solution, you might as well go with OpenShift. You will end up spending less time and money getting your OpenShift solution set up and running compared to doing so with plain Kubernetes. It has been a game-changer for my company, and we will continue to work on OpenShift for the foreseeable future.
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Contributor in Information Technology (Retail company, 10,001+ employees)
We use Red Hat OpenShift in Azure for our order management system at a large US-based retailer with significant e-commerce presence. It is used to coordinate order fulfillment between systems and we are currently planning to move more traditional PaaS-hosted applications in Red Hat OpenShift.
We have been pleased with our Red Hat OpenShift experience so far and look forward to migrating more applications through modernization efforts.
Pros
DevOps
Automated scaling
Security and controls for engineering teams
Cons
Bare metal / ARO feature offering equivalence
More opinionated cluster deployment strategies
GitOps focused strategies
Likelihood to Recommend
I think a lot of the time Red Hat OpenShift gets the short-end of the stick in the overarching Kubernetes community because it is licensed enterprise software. I would love to see more marketing and advertising with the open source community to help drive excitement around the technology and adoption. This would help drive more innovation from the open source community and inevitably more positive evolution cycles overtime.
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General Manager in Information Technology (Retail company, 10,001+ employees)
OpenShift was used to facilitate research and development within the front end development team. It enabled front end developers to quickly create development environments using pre built cartridges without requiring dev ops support. Previously, developers would have been limited to the languages and tools available to them, which restricted innovation. The speed at which environments can be created has enabled great creativity.
Pros
Pre built cartridges, giving a huge range of software ready to go. Reduces the amount of time required to get up and running.
Integration with GIT was an advantage, cloning the repo and making changes was straight forward.
Speed, creating an environment in minutes, ready to deploy.
Cons
Swapping between different Openshift accounts wasn't as intuitive as I would have imagined, although I doubt that the tool is primarily aimed towards front end developers.
Likelihood to Recommend
OpenShift proved valuable in spinning up environments quickly with specific requirements. This enabled the team to evaluate tools quickly without having to request resources from other departments, develop proof of concept solutions away from our production environment, work collaboratively as part of smaller teams and ultimately to be as creative and innovative as possible.
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Professional in Information Technology (Retail company, 1001-5000 employees)