What is Red Hat OpenShift?
Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise Kubernetes platform for building, deploying and running containerised applications and virtual machines across on-premises data centres and public clouds. It adds developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, service mesh, security and lifecycle automation on top of Kubernetes. Managed versions are available on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud. It is used by enterprises standardising application platforms in hybrid cloud environments.
Key facts
- Starting price
- Price not listed
- Pricing model
- Subscription
- Active users
- —
- Customers
- —
- Vendor employees
- 19,000
- Launched
- 2011
- Deployment
- Cloud (SaaS), On-premise, Hybrid
- Platforms
- Web, Linux
Strengths & considerations
Strengths
- Enterprise-supported Kubernetes with integrated tooling
- Consistent platform across hybrid and multi-cloud
- Strong security defaults and developer workflows
- Free trial available
- Open source
- Can run on-premise
Considerations
- Operational complexity requires skilled teams
- Subscription costs can be high at scale
- More opinionated than upstream Kubernetes
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Industries & use cases
Industries served
Banking & capital markets
Government & public sector
Technology, media & telecom
Healthcare
Manufacturing & industrial
Cross-industry
Typical use cases
- Container platform for application modernization
- IT automation of infrastructure and network tasks
- Migrating virtual machines onto OpenShift Virtualization
Typical Deloitte services
- Hybrid cloud platform build and application modernization
- Infrastructure and operations automation
- VMware exit and virtualization migration
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Features
✓Self-hosted· Deployment
✓Open source· Deployment
✓API access· Integrations
✓Dashboards· Reporting
✓Single sign-on (SSO)· Security
✓Role-based access· Security
✓Audit log· Security
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