Open-source alternative  ·  Container Platform

Replace Red Hat OpenShift with Rancher / K3s.

Enterprise Kubernetes management. Rancher provides a full UI + multi-cluster management on top of open source K3s.

You'd keep~R180 000 to ~R279 996/year

Current licence  ·  Container Platform

Red Hat OpenShift

~R180 000 – ~R279 996/yr

10-user estimate

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Rancher / K3s

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R279 996/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Red Hat OpenShift's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard

R180 000/yr

R15 000/month

Flat rate

With Rancher / K3s

Keep R180 000/yr

Premium

R279 996/yr

R23 333/month

Flat rate

With Rancher / K3s

Keep R279 996/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Red Hat OpenShift grows around 10% per year on average. Rancher / K3s hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR124kR248kR372kR496kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R451kR28k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.99M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Red Hat OpenShiftRancher / K3s, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.