Item: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat OpenShift

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use for deploy of the internal systems of ours university, the majority of them are internal system for the administrative workload, but some have education propose, the biggest problem right know is that we cant use odf for all system data, because for or backup solutions dont support it, so we use nfs for this, and nfs has same delays that impact on the development flow.

Pros and Cons

Pros

really resilient system, we had some serious problems and most of the time we had zero downtime or just a minor one on the production systems.
after the gitops workflow as finished, it was really easy and fast to deploy new systems
as we finished the deployment processes for the dev team, if some system need some custom config ou changes, it really easy do it, as all this process is controlled via IaC

Cons

the search on docs most of the times bring the right words, but wont fix the problem, and some random KB no exactly on the same topic, has the correct answer needed
Some problems are not so clear to find, the error occur on another pod/operators and you have to dig it to understand

Return on Investment

First the negative for us, the dev team start to have a lot of more work because now the can see theirs containers, logs, pipelines, code security flaws, but its not exactly a problem, but the intend thing to happen. Also for then, now they have a lot more access to the application (container, logs, metrics,pipeline), before that all this was handled we the infra team, as for the infra team, we could automated a lot of work, and focus on better process of the dev workflow. Because we arent a profit organization, we dint had a significant impact on finances, just on the worked done, and future proofing our systems, getting better devs practices, etc

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Omnissa Horizon

Likelihood to Recommend

If you use containers and the codes are not legacy, its really good to use for deploy, automation, etc. but with legacy code or systems, can be a little hard to deploy, also systems that are pick with ssl security can bring some problems, or system that arent compatible with containers without a lot of rebase of the code.

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