Full Disclosure: I work for Red Hat Consulting in the Container and PaaS Practice, an OpenShift/Kubernetes expert group. OpenShift's value (and its open source

Full Disclosure: I work for Red Hat Consulting in the Container and PaaS Practice, an OpenShift/Kubernetes expert group. OpenShift's value (and its open source upstream Origin) is not just that it is a PaaS. It's a PaaS that you can install and run on many different infrastructure bases: baremetal, VM, public & private cloud, and others very soon. I personally run a couple flavors on my laptop for demo and training purposes. So maybe upstream Kubernetes is not so simple. But that is why we (Red Hat) call OpenShift "Kubernetes for the Enterprise". It means we make some sensible defaults, decisions, architecture choices and make installation supportable to get you started. However, the fact that OpenShift & Kubernetes allow you to define you application architecture in reusable and portable object definitions is it's biggest benefit, IMO. And you may not need to spend thousand of dollars in infra per month to enjoy that benefit.