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Microsoft Azure vs OpenShift: What are the differences?
Microsoft Azure: Integrated cloud services and infrastructure to support computing, database, analytics, mobile, and web scenarios. Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment; OpenShift: Red Hat's free Platform as a Service (PaaS) for hosting Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, Node.js, and Perl apps. OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
Microsoft Azure and OpenShift are primarily classified as "Cloud Hosting" and "Platform as a Service" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Microsoft Azure are:
- Use your OS, language, database, tool
- Global datacenter footprint
- Enterprise Grade with up to a 99.95% monthly SLA
On the other hand, OpenShift provides the following key features:
- Built-in support for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and Java (the standard in today's Enterprise)
- OpenShift is extensible with a customizable cartridge functionality that allows developers to add any other language they wish. We've seen everything from Clojure to Cobol running on OpenShift.
- OpenShift supports frameworks ranging from Spring, to Rails, to Play
"Scales well and quite easy" is the top reason why over 108 developers like Microsoft Azure, while over 95 developers mention "Good free plan" as the leading cause for choosing OpenShift.
OpenShift is an open source tool with 915 GitHub stars and 563 GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenShift's open source repository on GitHub.
Microsoft, Starbucks, and Accenture are some of the popular companies that use Microsoft Azure, whereas OpenShift is used by Accenture, Vungle, and Hazeorid. Microsoft Azure has a broader approval, being mentioned in 497 company stacks & 472 developers stacks; compared to OpenShift, which is listed in 50 company stacks and 52 developer stacks.
Pros of Microsoft Azure
- Scales well and quite easy114
- Can use .Net or open source tools96
- Startup friendly81
- Startup plans via BizSpark73
- High performance62
- Wide choice of services38
- Low cost32
- Lots of integrations32
- Reliability31
- Twillio & Github are directly accessible19
- RESTful API13
- Enterprise Grade10
- PaaS10
- Startup support10
- DocumentDB8
- In person support7
- Virtual Machines6
- Free for students6
- Service Bus6
- Redis Cache5
- It rocks5
- SQL Databases4
- CDN4
- Infrastructure Services4
- Storage, Backup, and Recovery4
- Integration3
- Big Data3
- HDInsight3
- BizSpark 60k Azure Benefit3
- Preview Portal3
- IaaS3
- Scheduler3
- Built on Node.js3
- Backup2
- Open cloud2
- Web2
- SaaS2
- Big Compute2
- Mobile2
- Media2
- Dev-Test2
- Storage2
- StorSimple2
- Machine Learning2
- Stream Analytics2
- Data Factory2
- Event Hubs2
- Virtual Network2
- ExpressRoute2
- Traffic Manager2
- Media Services2
- BizTalk Services2
- Site Recovery2
- Active Directory2
- Multi-Factor Authentication2
- Visual Studio Online2
- Application Insights2
- Automation2
- Operational Insights2
- Key Vault2
- Infrastructure near your customers2
- Easy Deployment2
- Enterprise customer preferences1
- Security1
- Documentation1
- Best cloud platfrom1
- Easy and fast to start with1
- Remote Debugging1
Pros of Red Hat OpenShift
- Good free plan98
- Open Source62
- Easy setup46
- Nodejs support42
- Well documented41
- Custom domains32
- Mongodb support28
- Clean and simple architecture27
- PHP support25
- Customizable environments21
- Ability to run CRON jobs11
- Easier than Heroku for a WordPress blog9
- Autoscaling7
- Good balance between Heroku and AWS for flexibility7
- Easy deployment7
- PostgreSQL support6
- Free, Easy Setup, Lot of Gear or D.I.Y Gear5
- Shell access to gears4
- High Security3
- Great Support3
- Its free and offer custom domain usage2
- Logging & Metrics2
- Meteor support2
- Overly complicated and over engineered in majority of e2
- Golang support2
- Secure2
- Because it is easy to manage2
- No credit card needed1
- MultiCloud1
- Runs Anywhere - AWS, GCP, Azure1
- This is the only free one among the three as of today1
- Great free plan with excellent support1
- Autoscaling at a good price point1
- Easy setup and great customer support1
- Cloud Agnostic1
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Cons of Microsoft Azure
- Confusing UI6
- Expensive plesk on Azure2
Cons of Red Hat OpenShift
- Decisions are made for you, limiting your options2
- License cost2
- Behind, sometimes severely, the upstreams1
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