Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Room for Improvement

SG
VP of Product Technology Department at IDC Corporate

Kubernetes upgrades occur three or four times a year and that creates hassles for customers. Some customers need production stability so frequent upgrades cause too many interruptions. 

The general purpose solution tries to cater to too many customers so it is heavy. They should offer a light, out-of-the-box version with standardized installation for general customers who don't have many requirements. At one time, a version called MicroShift was supposed to be released but that never occurred. 

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Saurav Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Manager at Publicis Sapient

The service mesh integrations could improve the solution.

A Terraform integration would be useful.

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Siraj Hasan - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Archiect/ IBM & Redhat Business Development at Cancom

Making it even more cost-effective could be explored.

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Subir Karmaker - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Banglalink

There is room for improvement in cluster-based queue monitoring and autoscaling, which is not currently available. For example, it has a built-in queue but lacks the necessary mechanisms for clustering and autoscaling. 

Other containers have autoscaling features for service containers, but not for the queue part, and we do not have this feature in the cache. We expect these features to be available in the next release of Red Hat.

There are around 100 people using this product in our company. Moreover, the maintenance is minimal because we have a small team of four to five people for maintenance and local support.

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Javad_Talebi - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud architect at Vodafone

The effectiveness is satisfactory, and there haven't been any additional fees due to meeting demands. However, there's room for improvement in pricing, performance, and stability. Regarding the UI, it could be more user-friendly and integrated with various platforms. Currently, the UI lacks user-friendliness, especially for developers unfamiliar with container technology. Expecting them to create YAML files for security purposes is unrealistic without proper guidance or experience. This aspect needs improvement.

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TS
Solution Manager at Supermicro Computer

I more like a traditional Kubernetes compared with OpenShift. There's some function call or some commands that only work on the Red Hat systems. There needs to be more integration across systems. On Red Hat, some functions are polarized.

The performance could be better. It's a bit slow right now.

The solution is a paid service. It's not free.

The solution isn't very straightforward for end-users.

Technical support could be a bit better.

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ME
UNIX & Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We had an issue where it was always getting interrupted for the services.

We were not able to scale up the application, so we decided that a container platform was the but solution for us. Scalability is something that can be improved.

The installation and configuration procedure should be simplified.

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