They are using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for infrastructure automation and cloud automation. The platform is used for CI/CD automation, deployment, and automation. The main use is infrastructure automation.
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Infrastructure automation thrives but advanced dashboard features need improvement
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is easy to integrate. The platform is simple to use.
What needs improvement?
The dashboarding capabilities should be improved by bringing CMP (Cloud Management Platform) into Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Event-Driven Ansible is very important in the platform. Both Event-Driven Ansible and cloud management platform features are crucial improvements needed.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform since 2018, which is more than seven to eight years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is excellent, deserving a 10 out of 10 rating.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is not adequate. The Ansible sales and technical support services need significant improvement.
How would you rate customer service and support?
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comes with a high price point. Even though we use the platform, we need additional dashboarding tools because the complete infrastructure as code dashboard capability is missing.
Red Hat introduced a new product called Red Hat Developer Hub for platform engineering. While Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is very good for automation, deserving an 8 out of 10 rating, the cost of combining Red Hat Developer Hub and Ansible is extremely high, which presents a significant challenge with the Red Hat product.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
In AWS, customers are increasingly using Terraform rather than Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. This is particularly true for cloud-based operations on AWS.
The choice between solutions depends on the situation. Developers tend to be more inclined towards Terraform, while infrastructure teams prefer Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
What other advice do I have?
We are still actively working with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Customers typically purchase directly from Red Hat for on-premise deployments, while those on public cloud buy from the marketplace.
We are recommending the solution to users as a Red Hat partner.
This review rates Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform a 10 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Utilizing automation for administrative tasks is streamlined, but dashboards need enhancement
What is our primary use case?
I use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for automating some administrative tasks. Specifically, I utilize it for system administration tasks.
What is most valuable?
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is valuable due to the simplicity of the YAML language. It makes it simple to develop Ansible playbooks and roles, which aids in simplifying my daily administrative tasks.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see improvements in the dashboards. More detailed dashboards would be beneficial because there is a lack of dashboards on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for three years, while using satellites for about three or four years.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
It was easy to set up Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, not too complicated.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not really encountered any stability issues with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have not tested the scalability of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, but I believe it is a mature product and can handle scalability.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have not worked with other automation tools. Currently, I am only testing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy. It took approximately one day.
What about the implementation team?
I implemented the solution by myself, in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I know Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform costs money since I am using a trial license. The pricing is high, and since I'm not using all functionalities, it would be better if the price depended on the functionalities used.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate any other solutions before going with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Offers powerful automation with playbooks but could benefit from improved user-friendliness
What is our primary use case?
The primary use case is mostly automation. In technical terms, the solution uses a playbook. The playbooks contain code. If you have written all the code in the playbook, you just execute that code. You can automate depending on the environment.
What is most valuable?
The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful.
What needs improvement?
It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly for customers who aren't skilled in coding and don't know how to use the playbook's code. If we have many customers and the modules already exist, the user can just plug and play.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We don't have many issues with stability, so I rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten. We have two customers using the solution.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is good.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is complex, and OpenShift would be much easier. It took a week to deploy the solution. When deploying the solution, you must download the installer and install the solution on the server.
It requires two engineers for maintenance and deployment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Customers need to pay yearly for the license. The pricing is acceptable. It is not expensive.
What other advice do I have?
If you know the basics of coding for you to write the playbook's code, and if you have a midrange environment with up to 1,000 servers, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a good option to automate daily tasks.
I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Highly scalable and helps with automation, but the product could do a better job at building infrastructure
What is our primary use case?
I use the product mostly to configure virtual machines.
How has it helped my organization?
The solution helps us to have a standard configuration for all the virtual machines. It helps our virtual machines have the same configuration every time they restart. It also helps with automation.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don’t need an agent for it to work.
What needs improvement?
The product could do a better job at building infrastructure.
The product should add a feature that alerts us if someone changes the configuration.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product has high stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution has high scalability. It can be deployed on thousands of machines. Seven people in our organization use the solution.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We use the open-source version of the solution. The product can be used for free.
What other advice do I have?
The tool should be used for server configuration but not for creating resources on the cloud. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
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