Name: Red Hat OpenShift
Rating: 4.4 (108 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Red Hat OpenShift?

Red Hat OpenShift is a software platform that provides container orchestration, application deployment, and lifecycle management for cloud-native applications. The software is built on Kubernetes and offers features such as automated application scaling, integrated developer tools, and support for hybrid and multicloud environments. Red Hat OpenShift enables automated build and deployment workflows, centralized management of resources, application monitoring, and security controls. The software addresses business challenges associated with deploying, managing, and scaling applications in complex environments by streamlining the development process, enhancing operational efficiency, and fostering collaboration between development and operations teams.

Overall experience with Red Hat OpenShift

Software Developer

500M - 1B USD, Media

FAVORABLE

“Platform Complexity Rises Despite Enhanced Security in Enterprise Kubernetes Solution”

4.0

Apr 2, 2026

Overall positive experience with our private cloud setup. It gave us a more enterprise ready kubernetes platform. Standardization and the security model in particular have worked well. What worked less well was the added platform complexity and learning curve compared to vanilla Kubernetes.

Network Eng

30B + USD, Finance (non-banking)

CRITICAL

“Dependence On External Firewalls Raises Challenges For Internal Security Segmentation”

3.0

Apr 7, 2026

We do have hard requirements: EAST-WEST traffic segmentation. And then the journey started. It's incredibly complex to have a solution which remains efficient. Best of breed requires an SDN model implementation with external firewalls (Palo Alto or checkpoint in our case) to perform real filtering (> layer 4). This reduces a bit the added value of OpenShift if workload placement is not correctly thought through.

About Company

Company Description

Red Hat specialises in offering enterprise open source solutions. The main business problem it addresses lies within the domain of Linux, hybrid cloud, edge, and Kubernetes technologies. It operates using a communal collaboration method which allows it to provide efficient technological solutions. Its dedicated professionals play an integral role in the idea generation process and problem-solving, resulting in significant advancements in the field.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1993

Head office location

Raleigh, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

http://www.redhat.com

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It's a more enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform out of the box. One of the biggest strengths is the consistency across different environments. Having a common platform model across private cloud and other infrastructure was key, because we were building a hybrid infrastructure and wanted to keep the deployment experience consistent for our users. The enterprise controls and security model is a major reason it fits well for our use case, where platform risk, access control and compliance all matter equally as much. It's a good fit for vendor-agnostic approaches. You're pretty much able to lift and shift your entire infra to a vanilla Kubernetes deployment if you set it up carefully.

It's a gateway to the future of IT. As the overall cloud infrastructure rises and serverless offerings increase, applications are starting to be formatted to be deployed over the OpenShift topology. To cover multi-cloud and bridge with on-premises environments, a similar infrastructure is required.

flexibility to scale or move resources. High reliability in performance and security. Compatibility with the most popular cloud platforms and hypervisors. Support provided by Red Hat

Higher platform complexity than plain Kubernetes. More platform abstraction and more to learn for teams that prefer staying closer to Kubernetes. Operator model is nice, but it adds another vendor-dependent layer. Operating the on-prem installation still takes a lot of effort, it's partly eased with the assisted installer tooling but not fully.

The architecture is too much oriented to the Workload farm model. The security aspect is lagging behind. No real day 0 solution is available to fully segment and secure internal communication. It requires external solutions to be plugged into the tenant's This complexity pushes administrators to simply bypass security, even if they come from an infrastructure where all servers/VMs/loads are fully segmented and communication explicitly allowed by a firewall.

Not exactly cheap. It's quite complex and requires expertise, but it's not a game, it's a serius platform.

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50M-1B USD

Media

Review Source

Platform Complexity Rises Despite Enhanced Security in Enterprise Kubernetes Solution

10B+ USD

Finance (non-banking)

Dependence On External Firewalls Raises Challenges For Internal Security Segmentation

It Associate

1B-10B USD

Transportation

Platform Flexibility and Security with Professional Container Orchestration

5.0

Feb 27, 2026

In my opinion, it's the best platform for orchestrating containers and if necessary you can also manage virtual machines and their lifecycles. It's an excellent alternative given the high costs of other competitors. It contains several internal components that guarantee high reliability and security.

Engineer

Insurance (except health)

Customizability and Elegant Interface Balanced by Challenge for Kubernetes Beginners

Apr 3, 2026

A very powerful tool that is scalable and customizable to a company's needs.

It Services Associate

IT Services

Effective Management of Compute Resources Noted With RHOCP Implementation in Environment

RHOCP has helped our organization in virtualizing our environment along with being able to scale our container orchestration.