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Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud

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What is Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud?

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a comprehensive service that offers fully managed OpenShift clusters, on IBM Cloud platform. It is directly integrated into the same Kubernetes service that maintains 25 billion on-demand forecasts daily at The Weather Company.

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What is Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud?

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a comprehensive service that offers fully managed OpenShift clusters, on IBM Cloud platform. It is directly integrated into the same Kubernetes service that maintains 25 billion on-demand forecasts daily at The Weather Company.

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What is Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud?

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a managed offering to create OpenShift clusters of compute hosts to deploy and manage containerized apps on IBM Cloud. The managed OpenShift offering combines built-in OpenShift capabilities including RHEL-based infrastructure, enterprise hardened Kubernetes, validated integrations, integrated container registry, developer workflow tools, and access to services through service brokers with operational cluster life-cycle support from IBM Cloud SRE based on managing 20k production upstream Kubernetes clusters. As a managed offering, IBM will deploy the compute, networks, and storage based on the customer’s requirements through the UI, CLI, API, or automation through IBM Cloud Schematics. Additionally, IBM provides the tooling for updates including OS patches, vulnerability remediation, and updates to any component in the stack with the customer determining when they should upgrade. Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud supports HA masters, multi-zone clusters, compute isolation choices including bare metal worker nodes, customer managed keys using IBM Key Protect or HyperProtect Crypto Services using FIPS 140-2 Level 4 encryption, and secure access to IBM Cloud services to enhance an application’s capabilities including Watson, IoT, and Analytics.




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Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a comprehensive service that offers fully managed OpenShift clusters, on IBM Cloud platform. It is directly integrated into the same Kubernetes service that maintains 25 billion on-demand forecasts daily at The Weather Company.

Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) are common alternatives for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.

Reviewers rate Security and Isolation and Container Orchestration highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications in a IBM cloud environment. Using Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud leverages our ability to start very quickly any containerized application developed with diferente languages, as here we use python, node, javascript and NEXT. We can take advantage of Built-in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, as well, security features, such as network policies and secret management. And its possible to use various databases and data stores.
  • Support for multiple programming languages and frameworks
  • Automated deployment and scaling of applications
  • Security features
  • Support for various databases and data stores
  • Support for monitoring and logging
  • Could generate yaml files automatic
  • Plugin for VS
  • Improve UI
As a developer, Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud leverages our ability to start very quickly any containerized application developed with diferente languages, as here we use python, node, javascript and NEXT. It is crutial for a developer to have Support for multiple programming languages and frameworks, automated deployment and scaling of applications, built-in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools as long security.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Red Hat OpenShift as the primary platform for our applications. The platform hosts around 3000 applications for our company, spread across millions of pods. Given that it's the primary platform for hosting our applications for developers as well as actual business users, the revenue source is both, direct and otherwise
  • Multiclick provisioning of resources makes it super easy to manage pods and deployments. We don't have to maintain code for the same
  • In built security features and customizability ensures that organization wide standards are integrated well into the containers
  • Automated backups, scale ups and fail recovery makes sure of minimal down time
  • Multi cloud support and migration often requires support of cloud teams, and is not entirely automated
  • Often run into common issues like cache clearance of pods, which is an activity we have to do manually, often multiple times a day
  • The UI can be made more intuitive and user friendly
OpenShift on IC is most recommended for enterprise level applications where failure recovery and uptime is critical, with minimal manual intervention, to ensure least downtime. However, it can be a bit of an overkill for disjoint, standalone applications which can be spun up and down manually
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We created a POC last year using RedHat OpenShift in the IBM CLoud. IBM MQ, IBM App Connect Enterpriser and IBM WAS were all implemented in containers. This was to provide a uniform, consolidated, fully monitored, reliable platform for integrations, messaging and WAS applications. We demonstrated this POC in a company wide Hackathon for IT.
  • Provides monitoring ACE, MQ, WAS
  • Provides containerization to faciliate the maximum utilization of resources (cpu, memory, etc.), provides multiple versions of applications running in containers, isolates rogue applications
  • eliminates many administrative tasks
  • provides high availability
  • utilizes storage efficiently
  • easy to use, provides a well formatted interface, well documented, easy to install
  • provides connectors to current database levels
  • easy to configure security and keep track of certificates
  • modernizes antiquated architecture
  • AI for creating connectors "on-the-fly" instead of waiting for a new connector to become available
RedHat OpenShift is not only suited for IBM Cloud but can run in ANY cloud. We installed in Azure Cloud, for example. It can also run on Linux servers or a Power 9 machine. It is built for multi-cloud or on-prem environments. IBM support provides such excellent guidance in the installation and configuration that no other product on the market can beat it.
Henry PAN | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Utilizing OpenShift to bridge apps over AWS & Azure & the integration enables existing us to explore the usage of OpenShift & take advantage of the benefits offered by the platform. The integration will be further enhanced in future OpenShift releases to support more features of OpenShift and enable more capabilities of the underlying infrastructure. So far, the added one more layer has made the apps swap between AWS/Azure possible, but not perfect yet.
  • Hybrid cloud.
  • Multi-cloud management.
  • Complex
  • Deep learning cure.
  • Short talent.
OpenShift as a Service- - Extend into the on-prem, edge, or public cloud environment - Multicloud Container Development.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We run our Kubernetes workload on an OpenShift cluster. Container Orchestration helps us to mitigate most of the problems with scaling and availability. Although we are in full control of all the parameters and can easily monitor them. Especially we are using OpenShift for security reasons and reliability. Within IBM Cloud we are using the offer of ROKS if we need some quick and short clusters for developing and testing.
  • Easy provisioning
  • Easy administration
  • Easy usage
  • Provisioning takes long time
  • Costs are very high
  • User administration is tightly coupled to IBM IAM
You should use Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud when you want to easily try out IBM's great CloudPak capabilities. There is integrated experience to install it on this cluster, which makes it easy to install. Within our company, we use it mainly for PoCs and PoTs, development, and testing. According to the high costs of the offering, we do not use it for the long term. There are other providers, that are providing OpenShift for less money.
Ramindu Deshapriya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud to easily deploy and manage applications within a Container-as-a-Service environment. Being capable of deploying Kubernetes clusters within a fully managed and reliable cloud platform eliminates the need for micromanagement of clusters and integration of 3rd-party monitoring tools. The number of pre-built container images within the OpenShift ecosystem makes [the] integration of standard applications into our clusters very straightforward as well.
  • Managed Kubernetes
  • Reliability
  • Integrated OpenShift APIs
  • Availability of pre-built containers
  • Integrated monitoring
  • Better container management on the UI
  • Easier initial setup
Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is well-suited for situations where you want to deploy a large amount of applications within a Kubernetes cluster where you want to directly convert your source code in to containerized applications and add it to the cluster with minimum effort. It provides a great way to manage and monitor your cluster without having to go to a lot of effort.
Lavish Garg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OpenShift is being used in a particular project to run a web application. This solution makes it easy to quickly deploy and run our application on the cloud and also to implement continuous development and deployment. It significantly reduced the time to market new versions as well as [mproving] the scalability of the application.
  • Scalability
  • Integrations
  • Fast time to value for solutions.
  • There is no offering to install GraphQL database in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.
  • Wish they offered fully supported client libraries for the Openshift API rather than dumping it on a 3rd party[.]
  • Wish it had better documentation[.]
OpenShift is well suited if you want to use docker and [Kubernetes] but you want to hide the complexity of these two technologies. It gives a developer much more freedom in terms of code deployment, builds process, and implementation. One of its strengths is scaling and you can easily configure it for each application.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
To stay competitive and continue to succeed, we realized we needed to update our IT architecture and therefore we decided to implement Red Hat OpenShift to migrate our entire infrastructure from dedicated in-house hardware to the cloud. This digital transformation removed the arduous administrative duties of maintaining and supporting our software and hardware that allowed the IT team to focus on the right work at the right time. Red Hat OpenShift is an agile integration platform that provides high availability and flexibility for rapid development and deployment.
  • Implementing and integration platform to move infrastructure from on-premise hardware to the cloud[.]
  • Establishes a robust network and an updated infrastructure to develop intelligent and integrated services[.]
  • Makes internal development easier and faster and improves data access to developers[.]
  • Most of the frequently accessed parameters are accessed with multiple clicks because the dashboard is comprehensive. If the dashboard is improved then definitely nothing else to dislike[.]
There are no systems in the market at the moment that boast the same characteristics as those of Red Hat OpenShift. This system is able to build an infrastructure that meets the massive scalability, long-term stability, and robust data security of extensive customer demands. I appreciate Red Hat Consulting for assisting with [the] deployment of the continuous integration environment.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We were looking for a non-personnel intensive solution to run containers at scale. Being a fully managed offering red hat Openshift on IBM cloud for that bill! Plus, it provided a path for us to move to the cloud while still being compatible with our on-prem Openshift.
  • Nice user interface
  • Good monitoring control panel
  • Keeps up to date with recent Kubernetes versions
  • I wish it had better compatibility with docker file syntax. We had issues when it couldn't build standard docker files
  • Wish it had better documentation
  • Wish they offered fully supported client libraries for the Openshift API rather than dumping it on a 3rd party
Great for a managed container experience when you need to run a lot of containers at scale. But if you are just starting with containers, it doesn't use any other IBM / Redhat products, you probably don't need it. Instead, you could get by with something like AKS or EKS with Lens.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We started out as a corner use case for a specific development effort. A small application (net new) based on Microservices and container architecture and scale-out design. The application provides a self-service UI to actual paying external customers so the traffic can be in 100s of 1000s concurrent users checking their service status, accounts, and other data and metadata. The pilot went well and application and architecture based on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud with automation, orchestration, and almost infinite auto-scale serves as well.
  • Provisioning, orchestration and resiliency
  • Observability & monitoring
  • Deep security, reduce mystery meat in container images
  • Integration with existing CI/CD tools
  • Central repository and versioning control
  • Better API integration with a wider eco system
  • CLI, UI and API could be better in terms of usability
  • More security feature for east and west traffic, proxy and load balancing
Overall Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud is a great solution. If you are doing lift & shift a monolithic application and think you will benefit from the agility and scalability, you will be disappointed. All modern apps with scale-out and microservices architecture will greatly benefit from the underlying Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud infrastructure. Further, I would recommend that you beef up the bench in terms of skill set before adopting these new technologies.
Jaishankar Gothandaraman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For one of the oil and gas company, we migrated their existing application from Google Kubernetes Service to Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. We wanted to make the application cloud agnostic by deploying on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. Some of the clients of the application used a different cloud provider and it becomes overhead to support all the cloud providers in the Middle East. Hence migrating the application in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud will alleviate some the major changes.
  • All the deployment artifacts can be reused with minor changes to run on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
  • Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud enables users to manage VMs outside cluster using KubeVirt feature
  • The DevOps pipeline, like ArgoCD, was quick and easy to showcase the capability in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud
  • IBM Cloud should provide the capability of integrating with external image registry like Quay.io, which is not available.
  • There is no IBM software available as an operator in the operator hub. Let's say if I have to use IBM App Connect or API Connect, then I have to get CP4I, which comes with software that I don't need. Basically, we need to offer all the SAAS offering as Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud operators, which gives the developer the choice to explore the offering.
  • There is no offering to install graphQL database in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud.
Based on the IaaS support for the warehouse management system, we had couple of outages on the IBM Cloud and there were few instances when the firewall settings were changed inadvertently that led to the application being inaccessible. The client is thinking about moving the application to Azure or AWS.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
RHOKS is being utilized to support the rapid deployment of network management software. Leveraging the cloud offering reduces the complexity and overheads required with deploying and ongoing maintenance of an OpenShift platform.
  • Fast time to value for solutions.
OpenShift on IBM Cloud is suited to environments that have no existing or desire to gain skills in OpenShift configuration and setup.
Gonzalo Angeleri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
OpenShift is being used in a particular project to run a web application. This solution makes it easy to quickly deploy and run our application on the cloud and also to implement continuous development and deployment. It significantly reduced the time to market of new versions as well as improved the scalability of the application.
  • Scalability
  • Integrations
  • Steep learning curve
  • Lack of a trial version
OpenShift is well suited if you want to use docker and kubernetes but you want to hide the complexity of these two technologies. It gives a developer much more freedom in terms of code deployment, build process and implementation. One of its strengths is scaling and you can easily configure for each application.
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