Azure Red Hat OpenShift vs Red Hat OpenShift comparison

Microsoft and Red Hat are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Microsoft is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.3, while Red Hat is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.5. Microsoft holds a 1.3% mindshare in PSP, compared to Red Hat’s 7.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 15, 2024

Red Hat OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift compete in the cloud solution category. Azure Red Hat OpenShift has the upper hand due to its seamless integration with Azure services.

Features: Red Hat OpenShift offers comprehensive Kubernetes management, enhanced security, and robust developer tools. Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides significant scalability, performance enhancements, and integration with Azure's ecosystem.

Room for Improvement: Red Hat OpenShift could improve its pricing flexibility, documentation accessibility, and support in different regions. Azure Red Hat OpenShift may enhance its user interface, reduce resource consumption, and offer more robust integration options across multi-cloud environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Red Hat OpenShift enables a flexible deployment model with extensive documentation and support. Azure Red Hat OpenShift benefits from established Azure deployment processes and a wide service network.

Pricing and ROI: Red Hat OpenShift has upfront setup costs with a structured fee model, potentially yielding high ROI. Azure Red Hat OpenShift integrates costs within Azure, potentially leading to higher initial expenses but offers added value through enhanced cloud functionality.

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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

Red Hat OpenShift

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Virtualization Software (6th), Container Management (7th), Hybrid Cloud Computing Platforms (4th), Agile and DevOps Services (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Azure Red Hat OpenShift is 1.3%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift is 7.4%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Red Hat OpenShift	7.4%
Azure Red Hat OpenShift	1.3%
Other	91.3%

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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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Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Adopting a flexible and efficient approach with noticeable improvements in operational costs and continued challenges in job management

Currently, one of the biggest challenges we face is with services and jobs. For spawning batches, although it has crons, it is not easy to integrate with enterprise systems such as Autosys. The entire company uses Autosys, but we are not able to integrate it effectively. We need intermediate servers to run OC utility commands and initiate the cron job. We have to do a lot of modifications to ensure our batches work properly. With physical or virtual servers, even in AWS, we are able to write and manage multiple jobs. Managing batches in Red Hat OpenShift has been a significant challenge. Integrating third parties is a challenge with Red Hat OpenShift. For example, with Elasticsearch, onboarding itself was difficult, running file beats and dealing with routing issues. It is not straightforward, especially since we have some components in AWS as. AWS has many capabilities that come out of the box and are easier to work with compared to Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services. The main reason we went with Red Hat OpenShift was because it is a private cloud, and we have regulatory requirements that prevent us from using public cloud.

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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

"In Kubernetes, when traffic goes out of a pod, it has to have its own IP address. Every service that's going out requires another IP. But with OpenShift, you don't have to deal with any of those IPs because they use NAT."

"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."

"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."

"The functions and features in Azure Red Hat OpenShift that I have found most valuable are that it is a platform that is baked into Azure, and since it is baked into Azure, it is managed operation by Azure, which takes out the complexity of the infrastructure management and day two operations when compared with on-premise OpenShift."

"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."

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

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"The most valuable thing about it is the support available."

"It seems like we're getting a pretty high return on our investment because of our ability to navigate, integrate and migrate across platforms."

"Self-provisioning support saves a lot of time and unnecessary work from the system administrator who can use this time to run and monitor the infrastructure. For the developer, this means less time waiting for the provisioning and excellent flexibility for development, testing, and production. Also, in such systems it is easy for developers to monitor applications even after deployment."

"Overall, the solution's security throughout the stack and software supply chain is excellent."

"The scalability of OpenShift combined with Kubernetes is good. At least from the software standpoint, it becomes quite easy to handle the scalability through configuration. You need to constantly monitor the underlying infrastructure and ensure that it has adequate provisioning. If you have enough infrastructure, then managing the scalability is quite easy which is done through configuration."

"OpenShift is the way of the future."

"We have found the cluster management function to be very good with this product."

"I am impressed with the product's security features."

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Cons

"Automation could be improved."

"The product is expensive."

"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."

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

"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."

"They need to improve the core licensing model."

"I would rate the technical support from Microsoft as six."

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"OpenShift can improve monitoring. Sometimes there are issues."

"Room for improvement is around the offerings that come as a bundle with the container platform. The packaging of the platform should be done such that customers do not have to purchase additional licenses."

"Autoscaling issues. It does not increase in a seamless manner. Sometimes, CPU utilization/Memory utilization exceeds and the application just hangs or gets into HeapSpace or OutOfMemory error."

"The platform's documentation could be more comprehensive to cover the full spectrum of user needs. Sometimes, achieving specific goals is challenging due to a lack of detailed guidance."

"One glaring flaw is how OpenShift handles operators. Sometimes operators are forced to go into a particular namespace. When you do that, OpenShift creates an installation plan for everything in that namespace. These operators may be completely separate from each other and have nothing to do with each other, but now they are tied at the hip. You can't upgrade one without upgrading all of them. That's a huge mistake and highly problematic."

"The main drawback was the upgrade from Openshift Enterprise 3.11 to Openshift Enterprise 4 up to now."

"The metrics in OpenShift can use improvement."

"We need some kind of a multi-cluster management solution from the Red Hat site."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

"This solution is fairly expensive but comes at an average cost compared to other solutions in the market."

"The licensing cost for OpenShift is expensive when compared to other products. RedHat also charges you additional costs apart from the standard licensing fees."

"It's important to start small because the solution is scalable. We can build our cluster and look at the bundle option, not the external subscriptions. Talking to the people at Red Hat can save us money."

"The product has reasonable pricing."

"We use the license-free version of Red Hat Openshift but we pay for the support."

"Pricing of OpenShift depends on the number of nodes and who is hosting it."

"The price depends on the type and the nature of the organizations, along with the types of projects that are of considerable range."

"The product’s pricing is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

23%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

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	19
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	53

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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How does OpenShift compare with Amazon AWS?

Open Shift makes managing infrastructure easy because of self-healing and automatic scaling. There is also a wonderful dashboard mechanism to alert us in case the application is over-committing or ...

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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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What needs improvement with OpenShift?

Areas where Red Hat OpenShift can be improved include the licensing being a bit complex and maybe expensive, as that is something in the hands of the organization's higher management, especially wh...

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Overview

Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides enterprises with enhanced cloud-native flexibility and supports efficient multi-cloud migrations, simplifying infrastructure management, security, and patching.

Enterprises find Azure Red Hat OpenShift valuable for its advanced GUI, service mesh, automatic scaling, and integration capabilities. It aids regulatory compliance and streamlines application development with its DevOps integration, reducing release cycle times. The platform is appreciated for scalability, accessibility, and resilience. Users highlight its straightforward configuration, though improvements in the licensing model, cost-effectiveness, CLI, and support for data-intensive applications are needed. Orchestration, compatibility with new frameworks, and Azure dependency are areas for refinement. Built-in CI/CD tools are preferred over third-party solutions.

What are the key features of Azure Red Hat OpenShift?

Advanced GUI: Intuitive interface for streamlined management.
Service Mesh: Simplifies microservices management.
Automatic Scaling: Efficiently manages resources to meet demand.
Integration: Seamlessly connects with enterprise systems.
DevOps: Reduces release cycle time with unique integration.

Why consider Azure Red Hat OpenShift for your enterprise?

Cloud-Native Flexibility: Enhances adaptability for applications.
Security and Compliance: Aids in regulatory adherence.
Infrastructure Management: Simplifies with automation.
Scalability and Resilience: Handles workloads efficiently.

Businesses deploy Azure Red Hat OpenShift for pipeline management, containerized applications, and cloud migration. It supports banking operations, corporate integrations, and digital business development. Enterprises use it for Apache deployment in cloud platforms, advised by consultants transitioning from Broadcom to OpenShift.

Microsoft

Red Hat OpenShift is a comprehensive platform offering versatile container orchestration capabilities, suitable for businesses seeking robust, scalable, and secure solutions for application modernization efforts and microservices deployment.

Red Hat OpenShift combines a user-friendly interface with powerful CLI tools, ensuring rapid deployment and process automation. It seamlessly integrates with Docker and Kubernetes, providing cloud-native stacks for flexibility and compliance. Enhancing development efficiency, OpenShift includes built-in CI/CD tools and dynamic scaling features. It supports multi-cloud environments, avoiding vendor lock-in. However, documentation gaps, interface complexity, and infrastructure demands present challenges, alongside improving integration with third-party tools and monitoring capabilities. Licensing complexities and resource consumption remain areas for improvement, with user experience varying due to support response times.

What are Red Hat OpenShift's key features?

User-Friendly GUI: Offers an intuitive interface for managing containers and applications.
CLI Tools: Robust command line tools for efficient development workflows.
Scalability: Supports dynamic scaling to meet changing demands.
Integration: Seamless integration with Docker and Kubernetes.
Security: Features like role-based access control enhance security.
CI/CD Tools: Built-in tools like Jenkins streamline the development lifecycle.
Multi-Cloud Support: Enables use across different cloud providers.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Deployment Speed: Faster application rollouts and updates.
Automation: Reduces manual tasks, increasing operational efficiency.
Security: High-security standards for protecting applications.
Adaptability: Flexible framework suited for diverse environments.
Resource Management: Efficient allocation of resources for cost savings.

In industries embracing cloud-native architectures, Red Hat OpenShift is adept for hosting containerized applications and transitioning legacy systems. It excels in managing DevOps processes, supporting production and development in sectors such as finance, healthcare, and technology, ensuring robust hybrid on-premise and cloud operations.

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