We use OpenShift on Azure as IaaS.
IT Specialist | SRE | Cloud Public and Private at Parana Banco
Supports AKS but lacks simplified migration process
Pros and Cons
- "It supports AKS and other projects like Kubernetes or EKS."
- "They need to improve the core licensing model."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The cost of licensing per core is very expensive. I am in the process of migrating to AKS to reduce costs.
What needs improvement?
They need to improve the core licensing model.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's expensive compared to a similar product, and we've only used some of its features on Kubernetes. Therefore, we are evaluating whether we will consider the possibility of replacing OpenShift, but nothing is certain yet.
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Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We evaluated Rancher and AKS, and in the comparison, AKS proved to be more suitable for the company's needs.
What other advice do I have?
Based on my experience, I would rate it a seven out of ten. It is a good product.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Senior Engineer at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Provides us with flexibility, efficiency, and internal and external security
Pros and Cons
- "It has a feature to automatically scale up or scale down. If my application is running in peak hours, it will automatically increase."
- "Automation could be improved."
What is our primary use case?
We use this solution for internal and external security for a banking environment. We control the user environment and develop codes.
I'm using version 4.4. It's deployed on a private cloud. We also have physical servers.
What is most valuable?
It has a feature to automatically scale up or scale down. If my application is running in peak hours, it will automatically increase.
OpenShift provides us with the flexibility and efficiency of cloud native stacks, while enabling us to meet regulatory constraints.
What needs improvement?
Automation could be improved. It has a major dependency problem with IBM products. It takes too much time to upgrade one portion to the next portion. We faced a lot of issues with upgrading our DC and DR environment to version 4.10.
It should be easier to migrate our environment into the cloud to easily maintain our revenues on-premises, hybrid, and in the cloud.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used this solution for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The server stability is fine for the OCP cluster.
How are customer service and support?
We're in direct contact with OpenShift and we're an IBM partner, so we have two-way communication for any issues we face in the OCP cluster. We also have a strong internal team in our company.
I would rate technical support as nine out of ten. We're not facing any upgrading in our OCP cluster, but we're facing it in our IBM product.
Red Hat gives us excellent support as a partner.
How was the initial setup?
We have to download all the images into a single point of contact. We have to load all of the images into a booster and push the images to a cluster for installation. You can directly get the images on the cloud implemented, so it's easy.
Deployment takes a week. We have had a lot of internal issues and internal firewall port communication.
For master server creation, it doesn't take more than an hour.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We're using other Red Hat products.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution as eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. partner
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Enterprise Architect Manager at Sys Manager
A stable solution that helps integrate legacy systems with digital products in a special manner
Pros and Cons
- "The solution's support and its automation tool that ensures we are secure and appropriately configured are the most valuable features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift."
- "Azure Red Hat OpenShift's support should be improved."
What is our primary use case?
I had been using Azure Red Hat OpenShift for corporate integrations, trying to build and develop a digital business.
How has it helped my organization?
We recently put in production a new solution based on the Oracle platform. As a platform, this solution needs to integrate with legacy systems that are not appropriately adapted to the cloud-native solutions, and this is the cupping layer.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift and its integration tools provide the tools we need to integrate legacy systems with digital products in a special manner.
What is most valuable?
The solution is supported by Red Hat and Microsoft together, and we have SLAs and SLOs to guarantee our resilience and operation. The solution's support and its automation tool that ensures we are secure and appropriately configured are the most valuable features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
What needs improvement?
Azure Red Hat OpenShift's support should be improved. Sometimes, we have to act together with the Microsoft and Red Hat teams in some troubleshooting situations.
I would like to see something specifically developed or customized for analytics solutions in order to support data pipelines. Sometimes we have to build some predictive machine learning models and deliver them to the production environment. I don't have any DevOps automation or data ops specifically for this kind of data-intensive application.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Azure Red Hat OpenShift for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Azure Red Hat OpenShift a nine out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate Azure Red Hat OpenShift an eight out of ten for scalability.
How was the initial setup?
Azure Red Hat OpenShift's initial deployment depends on the problem that we have to solve for business. Sometimes we have a more sophisticated data pipeline interacting with different data sets with many transformations, and sometimes it's simple.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment with Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Compared to other cloud environments like Amazon or Google, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is an expensive solution. I rate the solution a six out of ten for pricing.
What other advice do I have?
We are currently using version 4.12 of Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
Overall, I rate Azure Red Hat OpenShift an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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