OpenShift Pricing

JK
OpenShift consultant at HCS Company

The first thing we need to know is that Kubernetes is free. However, if we need to maintain a Kubernetes environment, we need 10 people to build, maintain and keep Kubernetes secure and bring it to the same level as OpenShift. Then we have to pay evenly as subscriptions for OpenShift. 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.

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MB
Senior Kubernetes Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think it is a good idea to start looking at alternatives to Red Hat, perhaps a more open-source solution. This way we can save on licensing costs and have more control over our infrastructure. We get to the point where we can afford to pay skilled people to look at our code instead of paying for a license. OpenShift is really good when we need to start, but once we get to a certain scale, it becomes too expensive. It is more cost-effective to go with a cloud-managed Kubernetes if the organization is already on the cloud.

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SP
VP at United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB)

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

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Vikram Casula - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Infrastructure & Cloud ops at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We are currently using the open version, OKD. We plan to get the enterprise version in the future.

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Mustafa Kavcioglu - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at Halkbank

I don’t have any information about the licensing costs or the process.

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Johann B. - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering manager at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

The pricing is standard; the solution isn't particularly expensive or affordable.

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ES
DevOps Engineer at Nudtteo

The cost is quite high. I would rate it eight out of ten.

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Markos Sellis - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

It's expensive. It may be cheaper to invest in building Vanilla Kubernetes, especially if security is not the number one motivation or requirement. Of course, that's difficult, and in some business areas, such as banking, that's not something you can put as a second priority. In other situations, a Vanilla Kubernetes with a sufficiently strong team can be cheaper and almost as effective. In addition, people who are already working with a specific cloud provider tend to find cheaper solutions by combining Kubernetes on the specific cloud and choosing that over OpenShift.

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EdisonMacabebe - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Section6

Pricing of OpenShift depends on the number of nodes and who is hosting it. OpenShift is more expensive than other solutions, however, I think it is worth it.

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JA
Senior System Engineer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

My company makes payments towards the licensing costs attached to OpenShift.

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Arun Sahani - PeerSpot reviewer
Kubernetes/Openshift Security Consultant at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

The price depends on the type and the nature of the organizations, along with the types of projects that are of considerable range. I don't think the price is very much of an issue for any organization against the services being delivered over the cloud and the services of OpenSuite.

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Yossi Shmulevitch - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at SoftContact

The product's support is expensive. I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten. 

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AK
Executive Head of Department - M-PESA Tech at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We had a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) license for all our servers' operating systems. By having multiple Red Hat products together, you can negotiate costs and leverage on having a sort of enterprise license agreement to reduce the overall outlay or TCO.

The pricing and licensing for OpenShift is okay.

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CB
Senior Manager - Cloud at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

Vendor support is one reason to go with OpenShift. It's an open-source product, but you can pay for support. 

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

Depending on the extent of the product use, licenses are available for a range of time periods, and are renewable at the end of the period.

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AD
Solution Architect at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

The product’s pricing is expensive. It has the biggest market share right now as a containerization platform. It is the highest-selling product.

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AC
IT Specialist at a government with 10,001+ employees

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

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Timothius Tirtawan - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I don't directly deal with pricing or handle the negotiation on licensing. I can't speak to the exact price. 

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AANKITGUPTAA - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS

We get a bundled cost with one of our product suites, but I am unsure of the exact costs.

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PR
Software engineer at ACI Worldwide

We use the license-free version of Red Hat Openshift but we pay for the support. The support fee is expensive.

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it_user683466 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior (Consultant) Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I would try the online public OpenShift instance first and see if it is something that would provide benefit to each enterprise architecture and then go on from there.

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SK
Tech Lead at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The model of pricing and buying licenses is quite rigid. We are in the process of negotiating on-demand pricing which will help us take advantage of the cloud as a whole. 

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Gustavo Magni - PeerSpot reviewer
lead architect at Sys Manager

The solution is expensive but cost-effective.

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GR
QA Lead at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product has reasonable pricing. It is an affordable solution but needs a learning effort to understand industrial-grade security.

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DM
Cloud Native Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I don't deal with the cost part, but I know that the cost is very high when compared to other products. They charge for CPU and memory, but we don't worry about it. If people really want to make use of this platform, they don't care about the licensing and costs.

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it_user685341 - PeerSpot reviewer
Red Hat Certified Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I suggest they take licenses for physical nodes with two sockets and as many cores and as much RAM as possible.

Then use a virtualization solution to create as many Kubernetes virtual nodes, knowing that it doesn't make sense to allocate too much RAM to each node since one should not run more than approximately 80 pods per node.

RHEL licenses are included.

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it_user704028 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Data and Systems Architect at a tech services company

OpenShift is available in Red Hat's usual open source support subscriptions.

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it_user674052 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application architect, Senior UNIX system administrator, Middleware specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I think OpenShift PREMIERE costs a lot more, compared to the support given in Europe. If you buy directly from the service on the cloud, the level of support is not the same.

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it_user712179 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Operations Officer at a tech services company

Go for it. Red Hat is professional on solutions.

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it_user685308 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Save money and get OpenShift. Literally.

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it_user683448 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

For trials and prototypes, the open source version of OpenShift will suffice for most users and is compatible with the licensed version of OpenShift.

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it_user701412 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Pricing is good in comparison with AWS. The enterprise pricing is also competitive and is specifically fine-tuned to the type of environments we have.

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HH
Infrastructure Architect at a government with 501-1,000 employees

The licensing costs are quite cheap compared to other similar solutions. 

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