Calico Cloud vs Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines

Calico Cloud provides network security, observability and traffic controls for Kubernetes environments in cloud, on-premises or at the edge. Its observability features map network topology, workload connections, dependencies and traffic data to support troubleshooting. Security capabilities include integrated IDS/IPS, WAF and DDoS protection, as well as forensics and network-policy quarantine for infected workloads. Policy tools include recommendations, tiered enforcement and security policy as code in CI/CD pipelines. The listed networking capabilities include eBPF, nftables, iptables, Windows data planes, Envoy Gateway, Egress Gateways and cluster mesh. Compliance reporting covers PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR. Tigera presents Calico Cloud as a managed SaaS service and lists self-provisioned Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE and Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 among supported environments. A cluster needs a CNI installed before connection; Calico Open Source is required if Calico Cloud supplies both networking and network policy. The Free plan permits one user and one cluster, with logs retained for 24 hours.

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines automates application delivery on Red Hat OpenShift using a cloud-native CI/CD system built on Tekton. Pipelines are defined with Kubernetes resources and standard Tekton custom resource definitions, supporting portable pipeline definitions. Runs execute with their dependencies in isolated containers and can scale on demand, a fit for decentralized teams working with microservice-based architectures. The OpenShift Developer console can create Tekton resources, show run logs and manage pipelines in namespaces. Documented image-building tools include Source-to-Image, Buildah, Buildpacks and Kaniko. Red Hat lists integrations with Tekton Pipelines, Tekton Triggers, Tekton Chains, Tekton Results and OpenShift GitOps. Pipelines as Code supports versioned, auditable workflows aligned with GitOps practices. Red Hat describes hardened security and a Trusted Supply Chain framework intended to help ensure integrity and conform with SLSA levels. The product is available with a Red Hat OpenShift subscription and included in OpenShift Container Platform. The documented CI/CD system runs on OpenShift Container Platform. Pricing is on request; the Developer Sandbox offers a 30-day trial.