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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform pros and cons

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PROS

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform offers robust auto-scalability, allowing seamless deployment without disrupting services.
The platform integrates advanced security features, ensuring stable and secure cloud and on-premise deployments.
It provides sophisticated management for both virtualized and containerized applications, enhancing flexibility and productivity.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform enhances operational efficiency with capabilities like smart cluster management and lifecycle automation.
The platform's scalability on demand allows cost-effective resource management and supports high-volume handling efficiently.

CONS

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform has complex installation and requires more straightforward documentation for setup and technical challenges.
Improvements in networking and routing capabilities are needed, including better IP management and role-based access control.
Offline installation and updates are difficult, needing simpler methods for offline usage.
Managing and integrating Red Hat OpenShift on public cloud environments presents challenges, particularly with identity and access management.
The overall cost and resource requirements of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform are high, making it less competitive compared to other services.
 

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Pros review quotes

NM
Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa
May 14, 2025
I definitely recommend Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to other organizations due to its high availability, security, ease of use, and all the built-in features it offers.
ST
Open Shift Lead at Al Rajhi Bank
Jan 15, 2026
The benefits I have seen from using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform include that it provides a seamless application business, and the business is never going to be impacted because deployments and upgrades can be completed without impacting the real business.
Rifat Rahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect & CEO at Tirzok Private Limited
Aug 19, 2025
If I summarize the main benefit of this solution for my customers, it is the management of both virtualized and containerized environments, where the containerization will be more focused in the future.
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MS
Technical Lead for OpenShift Platform at ODC-Noord
May 9, 2024
For us, the fully automated upgrades are valuable. We have to maintain the clusters in production. For us, it is very important that it does not take too much time to manage all the clusters and do life cycle management and upgrades.
Prasad Gupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at IBM Software Labs
Sep 26, 2024
It automates rolling out new features, packaging the code, conducting security scans, and deploying to OpenShift.
reviewer2399271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Referent at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 8, 2024
The most valuable feature of the solution is that it has a lot to offer to developers, so they don't need to care about the infrastructure or basic setup of the containers, so you can just jump in and develop.
Mallepoola Sravan Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer I at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 24, 2024
The most valuable features of OpenShift include its advanced security, integrated DNS system, built-in pipeline management with Tekton, enhanced networking routes, and dedicated platforms for DataOps and MLOps.
Vlado Velkovski - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Architect at KIBS
Dec 23, 2022
The stack in the software supply chain is one of the main reasons that we use OpenShift. When I came to this company, we bought hardware from IBM named Bluemix, and they used ICP, which stands for IBM Cloud Private.
Anand-Awasthi - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at IBM
Aug 2, 2024
It has been a good solution to deploy all containerized applications.
Jose Luis Bonilla - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at Banco Pichincha España
Jun 19, 2024
Integrating the product into our existing infrastructure was easy.
 

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Cons review quotes

NM
Solaris UNIX Systems Engineer at Standard Bank South Africa
May 14, 2025
There are some occasions when support from Red Hat is not what we expect; in instances of outages, it sometimes takes a substantial amount of time to resolve issues.
ST
Open Shift Lead at Al Rajhi Bank
Jan 15, 2026
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform needs some improvements, for example, in upgrade time, as normally, an extended upgrade method should be allowed, but sometimes if anyone clicks twice, it tries to upgrade the second level and gets stuck, so that area should be enhanced.
Rifat Rahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect & CEO at Tirzok Private Limited
Aug 19, 2025
Regarding return on investment, my customers have not yet seen value in money while or since implementing the Container Platform.
Learn what your peers think about Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.
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MS
Technical Lead for OpenShift Platform at ODC-Noord
May 9, 2024
We are not big customers of Red Hat, but sometimes, we have severe bugs. We are very innovative, and sometimes, we have to wait for a long time to get proper attention. Red Hat should improve on that.
Prasad Gupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at IBM Software Labs
Sep 26, 2024
The interface has numerous UI bugs that need addressing.
reviewer2399271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Referent at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 8, 2024
I believe that the documentation part is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required.
Mallepoola Sravan Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer I at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 24, 2024
Setting up OpenShift locally can be challenging, particularly because it requires RHL Linux and has specific restrictions.
Vlado Velkovski - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Architect at KIBS
Dec 23, 2022
OpenShift has a pretty steep learning curve. It's not an easy tool to use. It's not only OpenShift but Kubernetes itself. The good thing is that Red Hat provides specific targeted training. There are five or six pieces of training where you can get certifications. The licenses for OpenShift are pretty expensive, so they could be cheaper because the competition isn't sleeping, and Red Hat must take that into account.
Anand-Awasthi - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at IBM
Aug 2, 2024
One challenge is that sometimes it may be difficult to find the answers to your questions if you are not a Red Hat customer.
Jose Luis Bonilla - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at Banco Pichincha España
Jun 19, 2024
The price must be improved.