Last week I was writing down why enterprises should use OpenShift as the foundation for building their enterprise platform and I wrote down following points.
- When building an internal Microservices platform for an organization Kubernetes is just the foundation you need many more tools and workflows to build a platform. OpenShift is a Kubernetes superset combining over 200 open source projects into a fully integrated solution with strong focus on a developer experience, operational capabilities, monitoring, and management with strong and secure defaults. Some of the open source projects include Istio, Argo, Prometheus, Jaeger, ELK, Keycloak,etc. OpenShift is support Kubernetes along many other supported components.
- OpenShift is secure by default.
- CoreOS container Operating System. Reduce surface area for attacks.
- Project RBAC
- Hardened images
- You can define upgrade windows and schedule them
- OpenShift is certified with over 200+ ISVs. These include Finacle, CloudEra, MongoDB, SAS Viya, and many other.
- OpenShift is available as managed cloud offering on all the three clouds – Red Hat OpenShift for AWS, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on GCP.
- Allows you to manage multiple clusters through a single pane of glass
Shekhar Gulati 