# OpenShift Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is OpenShift the right Application Development solution for you? Explore 26 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/176566/OpenShift/reviews --- OpenShift 4.4 (26) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of OpenShift Ease of use 4.3 Customer Service 4.1 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews NN Navneet N DeveloperComputer & Network Security, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It is very easy to use and we can directly check the logs there if any issue occurs. Or you can easily down and up a service with a single click of a button.“ June 21, 2022 Naveen C senior consultantInformation Technology and Services, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “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“ January 6, 2021 MN Mehran N Senior Solution ArchitectComputer Software, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “I did not find it easy to integrate other third-party tools in the open shift.“ December 31, 2020 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 26 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Praveen Kumar M. DevOps Engineer Information Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Openshift: Best tool and software to manage the containers." August 2, 2021 5.0 We are very happy with the Openshift and features that they offer to the container application deployment and security. 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. Alternatives considered [Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/199419/Kubermatic-Kubernetes-Platform/) Reason 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Devops Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "good tool for deploy your application." December 3, 2023 5.0 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. 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Co-owner Libraries Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Openshift - had to leave for Linode due to the forced and abrupt move from Openshift v2 to v3" November 16, 2021 1.0 It was an excellent product, Red Hat's management and treatment of users is the problem. 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Perfect Container Orchestrator" December 5, 2020 5.0 It solved our use case of transitioning from monolith to microservices. 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. Reason 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Sr. Vice President Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Container Orchestration Made Easy" March 21, 2024 4.0 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. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Expert Machine Learning Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "openshift through the eyes of a machine learning engineer" November 28, 2021 4.0 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. 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. Review Source Marco I. System Analyst Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Starting a new era in software architecture" July 3, 2018 5.0 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. Review Source Naveen C. senior consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best Environment for deploying applications" January 6, 2021 4.0 Easy to deploy and manage the applications in Redhat Openshift container 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 Review Source Amado Alexis M. IBM Cloud Technical Specialist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Ready to use PaaS service!" February 20, 2023 5.0 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. Review Source Marcelo A. Desenvolvedor de software Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "OpenShift Is A Good PaaS Platform" January 29, 2019 5.0 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. Review Source IB Ignacio B. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Application Development is fairly easy although you will need to read documentation" June 7, 2022 4.0 Pros It's fairly easy to use when it's well set up by the administrators. Documentation is very complete. Creation and management of volumes and persistent volumes. Pod log is fairly useful for debugging. Cons Secrets management need more user-friendly editing. Large amount of pipelines in the same project makes it hardly manageable. Pod log randomly skips entries. Review Source VJ Vikas J. Officer Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Openshift - move from legacy to cloud and kubernetis" July 4, 2021 4.0 Pros ease of Deployment ease for monitoring the logs build management Config validation Cons Monitoring is poor logs are not accesible directly for real time , only first n number of lines are visible Review Source AD Alihan D. Artificial Intelligence Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Boost my development speed" December 2, 2021 4.0 Pros Container orchestration platforms overall increased my development speed and agility. However Openshift can be considered as premium class of the sector of orchestration platform providers. Its unique developer experience and ease of use differentiates itself from other platforms. Cons Actually I liked it all about the software Review Source Muhammed Emin G. Software Engineer - Part Time Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great business solution for cloud deployments" May 20, 2021 4.0 Happy to use such an abstractive layer on top of Kubernetes and use cloud deployment strategies with less hassle. Pros It is great to have Kubernetes functionality with a professional support and frequent updates. Multitenancy at best. Cons It sometimes can be very difficult to debug and manage. Deployment changes can be tricky that you spent hours to resolve. Review Source Ankit W. Programmer Analyst Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "OpenShift - Best platform for developers" January 12, 2016 5.0 I have been using OpenShift for more than 2 years now. I have seen lot of improvements in Openshift and it's getting better and better. The most important thing is that it provides a lifetime free account which can be used as a hands on over OpenShift. Most important, you can attach your own domain to your application, even on free account. Openshift works using gears and cartridges. It has now lots of cartridges available and you can also create new custom cartridge. Pros 1\. Free lifetime account with 3 small gears. 2. You can add multiple cartridges in a single gear. 3. attach your own domain to your application, even on free account. 4. Support deploy on git push Cons 1\. You can sudo login to your gear, but you can always contact customer care they will handle such situation. Review Source BA Burak A. Machine Learning Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy to use, recommended" November 25, 2021 5.0 Pros It is a system that is easy to use, capable of changing capacity in case of need, or even automatically. Cons We are having problems with GPU sharing. Review Source Jorge M. Telecommunications Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "OpenShif opened Kubernetes to the masses" January 17, 2020 4.0 Openshift made it possible for us to setup a complete docker orchestration solution in an effortless way, including an amazing CI/CD pipeline which basically automates everything. Pros \* Very simple to setup and configure \* Friendly user interface \* Great dashboards \* Broad set of integrations \* Large collection of guides and tutorials Cons \* Monitoring could be improved \* Troubleshooting can be tricky, as it's not always easy to find out exactly what's going wrong Reason for choosing OpenShift OpenShift is a lot easier to setup, adapt, operate and monitor than plain Kubernetes. Review Source Nikola H. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "It's fancy" December 5, 2019 4.0 OpenShift is great - the UI is awesome it works like a charm. Pros It's fancy, it's modern, it supports many languages it has automatic scaling, compatible with Kubernetes and easily migrates to other OS Cons Nothing really, I am curious why people prefer Kubernetes rather than Openshift. I found Openshift easier to work with. Review Source YY Yusuf Y. AI Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great for horizontal scaling" December 1, 2021 5.0 Pros Ease of deployment and management of Kubernetes cluster. Very comfortable service and route management. Cons Not having a gpu scheduling option for machine learning models. Review Source OD Osman D. Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Openshift\_01" July 26, 2022 5.0 Pros it is a good management platform run on kubernetes for containerized applications. Cons You must learn it from a expert devOps engineer or else it too hard learn. Review Source YÇ Yusuf Ç. AI/ML Engineer | NLP Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Openshift review" November 24, 2021 5.0 Pros easy to use, clear, well organized menus, scalable Cons I am not sure what is missing. I didnt encountered any problem Review Source Lars M. Ejer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "null" October 27, 2015 5.0 Review Source NN Navneet N. Developer Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Openshift for deployment" June 21, 2022 5.0 Pros We use openshift to deploy all our spring boot projects. It is very easy to use and we can directly check the logs there if any issue occurs. Or you can easily down and up a service with a single click of a button. Cons There is no con to using openshift. It works fine for us. Review Source mA mohamed A. L3 Support Engineer and Service Management Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great to automate the provisioning and the management for your containers" January 3, 2019 5.0 Pros it's very effective when be used with openstack for managing our infrastructure, and it provides great services like monitoring containers, and databases Cons It's not easy to deal with, and for some issues the vendor takes long time to get it resolved, so it will be great if the user interface enhanced with more help options. Review Source MN Mehran N. Senior Solution Architect Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great Managed solution for container management" December 31, 2020 4.0 For a company that wants to modernize its legacy software, this is one of the best options. Pros It provides a complete suite for software containerization. At the same time, it is based on open-source Kubernetes. Cons I did not find it easy to integrate other third-party tools in the open shift. It is good as long as you stay in the toolset. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Related categories [Platform as a Service (PaaS)](https://www.capterra.com/platform-as-a-service-software/)[Container Security](https://www.capterra.com/container-security-software/)[Application Development](https://www.capterra.com/application-development-software/)