OpenShift 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Name: OpenShift
Rating: 4.4 (26 reviews)

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Overview

OpenShift

4.4

(26)

Pricing

Starting at $20.00 per month

About OpenShift

OpenShift by Red Hat is a Kubernetes container platform designed to help businesses manage application development and deployment processes. IT operators can gain insights into the cluster's health, inventory, capacity and other metrics on a centralized dashboard.

Using OpenShift, architects and developers can manage code pipelines and control clusters, roles and services for multiple teams. It offers continuous integration (CI), release management and machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to streamline the application development lifecycle, from building to deploying. It supports various languages, databases and frameworks such as Ruby, Jenkins, MongoDB, Node.js and more. Additionally, it lets businesses use pre-built container images or templates to deploy application frameworks, runtimes and databases.

OpenShift's client tools and web management console enable professionals to launch applications. The product is available on hourly or yearly subscriptions and support is extended via forums, documentation, email, video tutorials, phone and other online measures.

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OpenShift Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $20.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$20.00

per feature, per month

No plan information available

OpenShift Features

Popular features found in Application Development
API
Collaboration Tools
Compatibility Testing
Debugging
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
Pre-built Templates
Source Control
Third-Party Integrations
Version Control
More features of OpenShift
Access Controls/Permissions
Cloud Computing
Container Scanning
Continuous Integration
Data Security
For Developers
Graphical User Interface
Integrated Development Environment
Policy Management
Runtime Container Security
Web App Development

OpenShift User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

54%

42%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.4

Praveen Kumar M.

Verified reviewer

Information Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

Openshift: Best tool and software to manage the containers.

We are very happy with the Openshift and features that they offer to the container application deployment and security.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's very easy to manage the container applications and issues related to them like container image scanning and the securities related to them before the production deployment.

Cons:

Not much resource is available in the market who are expert in the container application security in market.

Reasons for choosing OpenShift

Openshift is very powerful and effective product from Red Hat. Red Hat created the c groups and namespace, they are expert in the containerised application software and they offered an incredible support when it comes to OpenShift and container security.

Reasons for switching to OpenShift

Apache Mesos was not very powerful in managing the up-growing of number of containers in the organisation.

Verified

Reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

Container Orchestration Made Easy

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

- Openshift UI to easily deploy, scale and destroy pods. - Has Kubernetes features - Support for public and private cloud deployments

Cons:

Sometimes deployments/pods get stuck and are not deleted even after multiple retries.

Verified

Reviewer

Libraries

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

Openshift - had to leave for Linode due to the forced and abrupt move from Openshift v2 to v3

It was an excellent product, Red Hat's management and treatment of users is the problem.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Openshift v2 was an excellent product that I couldn't fault at all, in fact I really really liked it. The problem came when Red Hat wanted everyone to move from v2 to v3 and gave very short notice and a very short timeline. Version 3 was completely different, based on containers.

Cons:

As stated above, the real problem with Openshift is the way Red Hat forced everyone to move from v2 to v3 in a ridiculously short time. Documentation for migration was useless, I tried to migrate using it - it all failed. I could not trust Red Hat again after that experience, so I moved to Linode and have never looked back.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2023

good tool for deploy your application.

it's a great tool for deploying your application and creating many resources like LB, config map, secrets etc. You can easily learn full Kubernetes by working with this tool.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

you don't need to work in CLI, it has a great GUI and it provides high security for your resources.

Cons:

It's too expensive for the normal company or person you want learn.

Verified

Reviewer

Financial Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2020

Perfect Container Orchestrator

It solved our use case of transitioning from monolith to microservices.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

If you have microservices use case and have following questions like How to scale my services? How to monitor my services? How manage deployment? How to make services resilient to failures? Answer to all the above questions is Openshift. As it eases the pain of development and there is solution available to a known services deployment issue already. Integration of our existing services was smoothly done.

Cons:

We didn't face any major issue while implementing or changing our deployment strategy for microservices. However as a developer I think there are many parts that one needs to understand to get going. But I don't think that as an issue. All tools have some learning curve and Openshift is no different.

Reasons for choosing OpenShift

It is backed by Redhat. We already have Redhat Products everywhere in our organization so it was a natural choice. Not just that even comparing with similar tools it provides more and same features.

Reasons for switching to OpenShift

It takes quite a bit of effort to setup spring cloud and we wanted to come out of that zone. Openshift by default provides all the features and more we were using with Spring cloud.

Verified

Reviewer

Telecommunications

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

openshift through the eyes of a machine learning engineer

In general, I have not used kubernetes through the user interface and it can be said that it provides a lot of ease of use. But the bugs that I had experienced from time to time were quite annoying and it was quite bad that there was no solution.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I've used gcp, eks and aks before. When I compared them by looking at them, it was very useful that I could load and edit yamls on a user interface of its own.

Cons:

Since it uses old versions of kubernetes, you may encounter interesting bugs.

Marco I.

Verified reviewer

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Starting a new era in software architecture

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use, full of useful feature. It make easy and valuable migration to innovative achitecture based on containerized approach. You can use a community edition (Openshift Origin) or chose the RED HAT edition. Based on Kubernetes. Fully integrated with many other useful tool for monitoring and manager the full software cycle, until the deploy.

Cons:

Documentation is still poor. Not so fast in receive support from community. Security aspect need to be better debeate.

Naveen C.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2021

Best Environment for deploying applications

Easy to deploy and manage the applications in Redhat Openshift container

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I am using Redhat Openshift container since 1 1/2 years and i really loved since deploying and monitoring the application is very easy when compare to deploying the application in traditional app servers like Tomcat

Cons:

Pricing for enterprise is bit costly when compare with Amazon web services (AWS).Also engaging Redhat support team to troubleshoot the issue is very difficult

Amado Alexis M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Ready to use PaaS service!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Really like the easy to deploy and use the PaaS services on IBM Cloud. The self-management make it easier for developers. I really like the good integration with IBM Cloud Paks.

Cons:

A problem is that you can shut down the services, so you are not charge. If you have a disaster recovery scenario with Openshift on IBM Cloud, you can't stop the compute charging.

Marcelo A.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

OpenShift Is A Good PaaS Platform

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

One of the best PaaS platforms that I've used. I've sent an Java application there and I had a best experience. It works with Java, Ruby and more. Eclipse extension works very well with OpenShift. But the free plan have some limitations. And the OpenShift is very good if you're learning about Java containers and how it works.

Cons:

Free plan is not too good and it has some limitations.

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