What do you like best?
It runs anywhere Red Hat OpenShift does: on-premise or in the public cloud. The platform offers tightly integrated, persistent data services for Red Hat OpenShift and hybrid multi cloud.
What do you dislike?
Developer productivity depends on agile continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipe-lines and responsive infrastructure. To perform effectively, developers require self-service storage deployment access, freeing them from having to think about storage provisioning as a separate activity that often causes delays. With comprehensive support for Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage automates the provisioning of storage alongside the provisioning of application resources, all within the OpenShift administrator console. Container-based tools like Jenkins can run on Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage to automate the CI/CD pipeline with improved performance as build dependencies don't need to become retrieved with each build cycle.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage provides software-defined storage that lets organizations deploy their apps and storage as needs dictate and adjust as they move forward. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage supports file, block, and object storage and employs a single set of Kubernetes Operators across all cloud platforms. Organizations can support multiple workload types with a single software-defined storage solution, and applications can move easily between cloud platforms with compatibility. It can lock applications into a given cloud vendor because other vendors offer a different mix of storage technologies and capabilities.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Developer productivity depends on agile continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipe-lines and responsive infrastructure. To perform effectively, developers require self-service storage deployment access, freeing them from having to think about storage provisioning as a separate activity that often causes delays. With comprehensive support for Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage automates the provisioning of storage alongside the provisioning of application resources, all within the OpenShift administrator console. Container-based tools like Jenkins can run on Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage to automate the CI/CD pipeline with improved performance as build dependencies don't need to become retrieved with each build cycle.