My big issue was getting multi-node deployments working well in AWS. I hit walls of configuration issues, DNS issues, poor documentation on fields, and generally could not make much forward progress. Running locally or on a single node OpenShift was fantastic, the haproxies for ingress were easy to configure and launching new services was impressively easy.

I was leveraging EFS as NFS mounts for my persistent volumes and had good results.

You might check out fabric8 if only for their visualizations of what is going on in your openshift / kubernetes environment.

Thanks for the youtube link! I'll be sure to check it out