Good and secure Kubernetes platform.
Updated June 03, 2024

Good and secure Kubernetes platform.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (self-managed)

Modules Used

  • OpenShift Connectors
  • OpenShift Database Access
  • OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka
  • OpenShift API Management
  • OpenShift Service Registry

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

We use it to streamline our deployment workflows and save time/effort. We have a limited time window to do our deployments due to the nature of our 24/7 business. Hence it's important to do it quickly and accurately the first time. OpenShift helps us with faster time to market. Standard containers help us scale based on our trading volume.

Pros

  • Auto scaling.
  • Container orchestration.
  • Multi cluster management.
  • Ease of deployment.

Cons

  • Support
  • Developer experience (installation, logs, debugging).
  • Cost
  • It has helped us reduce headcount by 20% and combine various infra, support teams into SRE roles.
  • Faster time to market helped us reduce weekend work for developers by 50%.
  • Developers could deliver business goals as they didn't have to focus constantly on infra challenges.
While the applications are performant, if there are any issues or we need access to logs to debug, it sometimes takes longer, and there is a learning curve involved for the support teams.
OpenShift is more flexible and can be deployed On-prem and on the cloud. Openshift was easier for the development teams to get up to speed and understand k8 terminology.

Do you think Red Hat OpenShift delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Red Hat OpenShift's feature set?

Yes

Did Red Hat OpenShift live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Red Hat OpenShift go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat OpenShift again?

Yes

Openshift is suitable for microservices-based development environments. In our business, there are sudden peaks in the volumes of trades to be processed. Openshift is suitable as auto-scaling helps our developers focus more on business logic and worry less about infrastructure management. As a heavily regulated industry, Openshift's security features, like RBAC access control and secure containers, help us meet compliance requirements.

Red Hat OpenShift Feature Ratings

Platform-as-a-Service
5.6
Ease of building user interfaces
7
Scalability
8
Platform management overhead
5
Workflow engine capability
6
Platform access control
8
Services-enabled integration
6
Development environment creation
5
Development environment replication
6
Issue monitoring and notification
4
Issue recovery
4
Upgrades and platform fixes
3

Using Red Hat OpenShift

150 - Trade Management, Trade Settlement and compliance applications are currently containerized. Other apps are being moved to cloud in next couple years.
20 - Support users are primarily DevOps users with specialized training in Cloud, Kubernetes, and supporting microservices.
  • Overnight Pricing batch - we are able to scale the compute requirements on the fly
  • Trade reconciliations and settlement apps with bursts of traffic at certain times of the day
  • Apps handling PII data as its possible to configure entitlements at granular level
  • Initially planned to use Openshift for traditional website based applications, however we've now been experimenting moving on-prem applications using OpenShift
  • Developers have been freed of managing infrastructure. They are able to focus on functionality and deployment rather than plan to scale infra to their dynamic needs.
  • Been able to automate our CI/CD pipeline and also helps with software development governance and audit requirements
  • As a global team, we are looking to provide cross region access to our teams to manage , deploy and support each other during their time
  • Held reduce compute costs
  • Automate Disaster Recovery and make it seamless to end user
Godd product. We do have software from multiple providers like Amazon and Oracle and hence sometimes we have integration challenges. We'd like to commit long term to one platform which works with out overall cloud and AI strategy

Comments

  • Brianna Gault | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Brianna Gault
    (Vendor Representative) commented 2 years ago
    Hey there, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience on Red Hat OpensShift. We're thrilled to hear that OpenShift helps you with a faster time to market. Your continued feedback is important to us. If you have any questions or additional thoughts to share, please reach out to us at experience-advocacy@redhat.com. Thanks, Red Hat Customer Experience & Advocacy Team

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