
Cisco OpenShift Platform Premium Subscription
The Cisco OpenShift Platform Premium Subscription provides essential licensing for managing containerized applications, offering advanced features and support for a 3-year term.
- Access to Premium Features: Unlock advanced capabilities for container orchestration, management, and security.
- 3-Year Subscription Term: Ensures continuous access to software updates, security patches, and technical support for three years.
- Compliance and Stability: Maintain a compliant and stable environment for your critical applications.
- Scalable Capacity: Licensed for 2 cores and 4 vCPUs, supporting specific workload requirements.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a 3-year premium subscription license for the Cisco OpenShift platform, designed to enable advanced container management and orchestration capabilities. The license covers 2 cores and 4 vCPUs, providing the necessary entitlements for deploying and managing containerized applications with enhanced features and support.
This platform license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations who are responsible for modernizing application infrastructure. It fits into environments utilizing containerization strategies, supporting development, testing, and production workloads on a supported and feature-rich platform.
- Advanced Container Orchestration: Enables sophisticated management of containerized applications at scale.
- Enhanced Security Features: Provides access to security tools and policies for protecting containerized workloads.
- Developer Productivity Tools: Offers features that streamline the development and deployment lifecycle.
- Operational Insights: Delivers monitoring and logging capabilities for better application performance management.
- Subscription-Based Access: Ensures continuous access to the latest software versions and critical updates.
This Cisco OpenShift premium subscription is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking advanced container management without enterprise-level overhead.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Container Orchestration
Enable teams to deploy, manage, and scale complex containerized applications with advanced orchestration features. Streamline application lifecycle management from development to production with enhanced automation capabilities.
cloud-native deployments, microservices architectures, hybrid cloud environments, DevOps workflows
Enhance Application Security Posture
Automate security policy enforcement across containerized environments to reduce vulnerabilities. Protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements through integrated security tools.
regulated industries, sensitive data handling, security-conscious organizations, compliance-driven IT
Improve Developer Productivity
Streamline the development and deployment pipeline by providing developers with self-service access to resources. Accelerate time to market for new applications and features through simplified workflows.
agile development teams, CI/CD pipelines, application modernization initiatives, rapid prototyping
Key Features
Premium Subscription License
Provides access to advanced features, ongoing software updates, and technical support for 3 years, ensuring your platform remains current and supported.
2 Cores / 4 vCPUs Entitlement
Allows for the deployment and management of containerized workloads within defined capacity limits, suitable for specific application needs.
Container Orchestration Capabilities
Enables efficient deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, improving operational efficiency.
Enhanced Security Features
Offers tools and policies to secure containerized environments, reducing risk and ensuring compliance.
Developer Tooling and Automation
Supports faster development cycles and simplifies application deployment through integrated tools and automation.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security and compliance for managing sensitive data and applications, making advanced container management crucial for regulatory adherence and operational stability.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain high levels of data security and application availability to meet strict compliance standards like HIPAA, benefiting from the enhanced security and stability features of OpenShift.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers leverage containerization for modernizing operational technology (OT) and IT systems, requiring reliable platforms that support complex deployments and ensure continuous production uptime.
Education & Research
Educational institutions and research facilities often manage diverse and rapidly evolving application needs, benefiting from the flexibility and scalability offered by container platforms for research projects and student services.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Cisco OpenShift Platform Premium?
Cisco OpenShift Platform Premium is a subscription license that unlocks advanced features for managing containerized applications. It includes enhanced security, developer productivity tools, and ongoing support for a specified term.
What does the 3-year subscription include?
The 3-year subscription ensures continuous access to the latest software versions, security patches, and technical support from Cisco for the duration of the term. It provides predictable costs and ensures your platform remains up-to-date.
Who is this license intended for?
This license is intended for businesses, particularly SMB and mid-market companies, that use IT for their own operations and are deploying or managing containerized applications. It is suitable for IT Managers and IT Professionals.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.