Red Hat OpenShift
Ranked 9 of 9 container orchestrators by recommenders
Recommended as a Kubernetes platform that works well out of the box, with many add-ons and hardening. Main caveat: steep learning curve and high cost.
Recommended as a Kubernetes platform that works well out of the box, with many add-ons and hardening. Main caveat: steep learning curve and high cost.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 55%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Steep learning curve
“We used RedHat Openshift which has a pretty good solution out of the box, but the learning curve was relatively high.”
Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud” “I thought I wanted openshift but no way i'm paying and i couldn't figure out how to even get started.”
Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud” High license cost
“I thought I wanted openshift but no way i'm paying and i couldn't figure out how to even get started.”
Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Kubernetes Is Your Private Cloud” “OpenShift, which is a HEAVY lift and not much less expensive than modern Broadcom licenses”
Comment from 19 Nov 2025 in “Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available” “they're all... big, expensive and difficult”
Comment from 20 Jun 2026 in “Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct”
Other container orchestrators people recommend
The four most recommended other container orchestrators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docker | 558 | 515 | 52% | 13 | 10 yrs22 owners | — |
| Kubernetes | 333 | 288 | 54% | 12 | 6 yrs22 owners | — |
| Docker Compose | 149 | 44 | 77% | 12 | 5 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| HashiCorp Nomad | 37 | 11 | 77% | 8 | 6 yrs5 owners | Approved |
| Red Hat OpenShiftThis page | 6 | 5 | 55% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
10 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“a LOT of add-ons and (appreciated) security hardening”
“It's even more opinionated than AKS/EKS, and this says a lot.”
“OpenShift was a bad product all around until 2019 with v4, the 3rd rewrite, but a home run”
“OpenShift is not open source. If it was, why does RedHat sell licenses for it, gate the binaries”
“OpenShift is okay but has quirks unless you have a major Kubernetes staff”
“they're all... big, expensive and difficult”
“OpenShift has an IBM stamp of approval, which means it is now available in more organisations”
“OpenShift, which is a HEAVY lift and not much less expensive than modern Broadcom licenses”
“I thought I wanted openshift but no way i'm paying and i couldn't figure out how to even get started.”
“We used RedHat Openshift which has a pretty good solution out of the box, but the learning curve was relatively high.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.