Azure Red Hat OpenShift vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Azure Red Hat OpenShift are competing platforms in the enterprise-grade cloud application sector. Azure Red Hat OpenShift generally has the upper hand due to its expansive feature set, despite its higher costs.

Features: Pivotal Cloud Foundry features automation, lifecycle management, and easy deployment, enhancing performance and CI/CD integration. Azure Red Hat OpenShift excels in language support, container orchestration, and scalability, providing robust tools for cloud-native application deployment.

Room for Improvement: Pivotal Cloud Foundry could benefit from broader language support, improved container orchestration, and enhanced scalability features. Azure Red Hat OpenShift could reduce complexity in initial setup, lower costs, and further streamline its comprehensive deployment model.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides streamlined deployments with fast time-to-market and self-assisted features. Azure Red Hat OpenShift offers flexible deployment models with enhanced scalability and detailed documentation, backed by robust support from Red Hat and Microsoft.

Pricing and ROI: Pivotal Cloud Foundry's simple pricing can lead to a faster ROI. Azure Red Hat OpenShift, though more expensive initially, offers long-term benefits and adaptable solutions that may result in significant ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

16th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

14th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Azure Red Hat OpenShift is 1.0%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is 6.7%, down from 10.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Pivotal Cloud Foundry	6.7%
Azure Red Hat OpenShift	1.0%
Other	92.3%

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DeepakMishra

CEO, Head of Sales and Business Development at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Integrated cloud platform has streamlined app delivery and supported certified marketplace products

A potential area for improvement for Azure Red Hat OpenShift is to see managed identity support and ensure that some of the security features are not conflicting with Azure or Azure product features. I am sure in the future it will be more templatized so that we need not depend on Azure security features. Azure Red Hat OpenShift should be independent of Azure security features with respect to container scan and all that. Why would it use an Azure security feature? That is what I find. It is still yet to be GA and commonly available, but that is a strong reason for improvement.

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reviewer2263239

Head of Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

PCF allows for fine-grained configuration, especially regarding scaling but routing limitations

Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice. A few things, such as what OpenShift does better are cluster management. Like, you can manage the entire thing together. Currently, it's possible to manage all the clusters, especially when it comes to cluster management using straightforward configuration. As of now, we have to handle each application instance individually, which means servicing them one by one. It would be better if we could perform these actions as a group or in a more streamlined manner. One more downside is actually the cost of this environment. So, major downside of Pivotal, it's the cost. So, the runtime running costs are very high. Extremely high.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features of the solution are accessibility and scalability."

"Red Hat is a very stable product with good integration with products such as Kubernetes, and it also offers migration tools."

"I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten."

"Technical support from Red Hat is very good."

"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."

"As a consulting company, we implement Azure Red Hat OpenShift for our clients, who appreciate its integration capabilities for enhancing cloud operations. While we handle implementation, build processes, and automation, the operational responsibility lies with the customer. The service provides basic processes and support from Red Hat and Microsoft, which benefits clients by allowing them to focus on their business rather than regular operations like cluster upgrades."

"Flexibility, a very well-developed interface, and ease of learning are the most valuable features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift."

"It has a feature to automatically scale up or scale down. If my application is running in peak hours, it will automatically increase."

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"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."

"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use."

"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."

"The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily."

"It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment."

"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to scale. The services that connect to the database are also very good."

"We find its stability and scalability valuable."

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Cons

"The product is expensive."

"One of the things to notice is that this product can be expensive."

"Automation could be improved."

"They need to improve the core licensing model."

"There is room for improvement in terms of orchestration. While Azure orchestration offers valuable features, it's worth noting that it may not match the level of orchestration provided by Kubernetes itself."

"Regarding room for improvement, there's always room, but it's mainly about Azure itself rather than Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Azure is not as advanced as AWS in terms of supported services. AWS is the leader in this area. However, there's no need for service improvement in Azure Red Hat OpenShift as the service is excellent. I don't need additional features because I can customize it according to the customer's needs."

"Azure Red Hat OpenShift's support should be improved."

"I would like Azure Red Hat OpenShift to be more open to new frameworks and languages. Currently, if I create a pod with Rust, it doesn't work in OpenShift, and I must create a layer of interpretation."

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"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."

"It should offer more security features."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology it is a bit complex."

"It is not straightforward to setup."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features."

"In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."

"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Red Hat OpenShift is not a low-price solution; it's expensive. Pricing depends on the strategy and whether you buy it directly from Red Hat or the Azure portal. Additionally, some customers may need a complete disaster recovery solution, which requires additional licensing and software products for implementation, such as backups."

"It is expensive compared to a similar product."

"I rate the product's price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"Compared to other cloud environments like Amazon or Google, Azure Red Hat OpenShift is an expensive solution."

"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."

"Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."

"The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."

"We do pay for the licensing cost because we have opted for a private cloud setup. So, it is a cloud setup, and we have to make payments based on the cloud size. I do not consider it very costly when comparing it to the market."

"You're paying for the number of virtual machines you want to install in the installation."

"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is based on the customer's requirements. However, the price is comparable to other similar solutions."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

38%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

The pricing for OpenShift is similar to other solutions like Docker ( /products/docker-37146-reviews ) Studio. The plans with ARO and AWS are standard in the market. However, using OpenShift on-pre...

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What needs improvement with Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

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What is your primary use case for Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

My use case for Azure Red Hat OpenShift is for an employee engagement application and HR, and I have also used it for an agentic bot.

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Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database...

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Comparisons

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Compared 23% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

Google Cloud vs Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Compared 12% of the time

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Also Known As

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PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)

Overview

Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand, monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft and Red Hat. Kubernetes is at the core of Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift brings added-value features to complement Kubernetes, making it a turnkey container platform as a service (PaaS) with a significantly improved developer and operator experience.

Microsoft

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io

Broadcom

Sample Customers

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Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank

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