We performed a comparison between OpenShift Container Platform and Rancher Labs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Container Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."More tools are available in OpenShift Container Platform to maintain and manage the clusters."
"I have found the ability to scale up is most valuable."
"Some of the primary features we leverage in the platform have to do with how we manage the cluster configurations, the properties, and the auto-scalability. These are the features that definitely provide value in terms of reducing overhead for the developers."
"Dashboards... give us all the details we need to see about the microservices."
"The platform is easy to scale as it supports Windows worker node."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"Openshift is a very developer-friendly product."
"OpenShift is a user-friendly container platform with a solid GUI that helps you follow what is going on and gives you an overview of all your clusters. It's more user-friendly than the Kubernetes itself. The interface helps you learn the platform and provides access to some features or specific comments."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."
"Rancher Labs is a very user-friendly tool."
"The solution has a lot of good features, such as you can access the console and edit through the GUI. The dashboard and the UI are designed well, user-friendly, and easy to manage, and access."
"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."
"A great UI with very good integrations."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."
"This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us."
"The product is simple to use for a beginner."
"OpenShift has certain restrictions in terms of managing the cluster when it's running on a public cloud. For example, identity and access management integration with the IM of AWS is quite difficult. It requires some open-source tools to integrate. This is one area where I always see room for improvement."
"My impression is that this solution is pretty expensive so I think the pricing plan could improve."
"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."
"It can take 10 to 15 minutes to deploy a microservice. The CI/CD process takes a long time, and if it's because of OCP, that is something that can be changed."
"OpenShift Container Platform needs to work on integrations."
"I want to see more incorporation of native automation features; then, we could write a code, deploy it directly to OpenShift, and allow it to take care of the automated process. Using this method, we could write one application and have elements copy/pasted to other applications in the development process."
"The product's interface is a bit buggy."
"The complexity of the installation could be reduced. While we got the necessary support, the instructions could be clearer."
"I can't migrate to the newer version."
"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."
"If you have poor infrastructure, you will have issues with the tool."
"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."
"Could be more intuitive."
"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."
"There needs to be an improvement in observability and microservice monitoring tools in Rancher Labs."
"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."
OpenShift Container Platform is ranked 1st in Container Management with 36 reviews while Rancher Labs is ranked 5th in Container Management with 13 reviews. OpenShift Container Platform is rated 8.2, while Rancher Labs is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of OpenShift Container Platform writes "Provides automation that speeds up our process by 30% and helps us achieve zero downtime". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rancher Labs writes "An easy-to-use user interface, which makes it easy to work with Kubernetes and containers". OpenShift Container Platform is most compared with Amazon EKS, VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE, Amazon Elastic Container Service and Kubernetes, whereas Rancher Labs is most compared with VMware Tanzu Mission Control, Docker, Amazon EKS, Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE and Google Kubernetes Engine. See our OpenShift Container Platform vs. Rancher Labs report.
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