We use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in our company to implement a software-defined infrastructure, which involves defining the desired configuration of machines in terms of their components, setup, security, user roles, software deployment, and certificate deployment. With this platform, we are able to set up new environments and manage the lifecycle of instances across various stages, such as development, production, and pre-production. We also use it for routing up and back of new software.
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A good open-source software offering broad support and reliability to its users
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Feature-wise, the solution is a good open-source software offering broad support. Also, it's reliable.
What needs improvement?
I think some community projects support Ansible Playbooks, but they often break with version updates. It's a difficult problem to solve. DevOps should have a library with common components to make Ansible more productive when there are updates to Ansible and the operating system. What we need is model-driven, declarative software infrastructure management. However, things tend to break with new versions, requiring a lot of work to fix. It becomes a cost-benefit analysis of reusing old Ansible scripts versus rewriting them from scratch after updates. The problem is that it becomes quite fragile over time, and this fragility is a problem.
If the IDE and auto-completion of the solution are based on Checkpt, it is important to ensure that the AI coding tools support writing in a more declarative way. While I have not yet tried coding with this assistance, Microsoft and Keylabs both offer AI coding assistants. The focus should be on improving the support for Ansible in the area of AI coding. It is crucial to see how well they work with the new versions of Ansible.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for almost five years. My company is an end-user of the solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product's stability is very good. I rate it an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Ansible is a configuration tool that doesn't have to scale like other tools. So scalability does not apply to the solution. Also, it's not a tool used by thousands of users. I am unsure if it can be used to manage thousands of servers. Small teams, like the DevOps team, use the solution. We service large groups of servers with it using a very small team of about two or three and a maximum of four people.
How are customer service and support?
I have never contacted technical support. We use open-source support.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup process was simple. The solution gets used in various ways, and it's essentially a configuration tool you run from any node with access to other nodes. It has got server versions as well. So, you can use it either way.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We compared it to other configuration management tools before choosing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. We did not choose others since they were not as centralized. It doesn't need a server since you can run it from your clients, and it doesn't need a central deployment service or server.
What other advice do I have?
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a declarative infrastructure management system that works fine if supported by the environments you use to set up. I rate the overall product an eight or nine out of ten.
Redhat ansible review | awesome tool for configuration management
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about this tool is the comfortabilty and ability to connect with remote server and do the task we need to do with the help of playbook.
What do you dislike about the product?
It limited capabilities to connect with windows OS.
With redhat OS its easy but to configure to connect with windows is a bit tricky.
With redhat OS its easy but to configure to connect with windows is a bit tricky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deployment on remote server is too easy with the help of ansible and as we have to install monitoring agent in remote 1000 server and it makes it way easy just a simple playbook and our work get completed within no time
We got easier operations using RH ansible
What do you like best about the product?
We have run 14 private cloud virtualized by Red hat openstack, following up on all this data centers was very difficult, we noticed the flavour of easy operation when we used the automation of Ansible.
What do you dislike about the product?
The integration is not that easy between the OpenStack Orchestration and Ansible and the application, but we reached out target at the end with the help of great support that Red Hat provide.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We don't care about the application sizing the platform is become scaling up and down the VNFs according to the usage, without our manual intervention the service expand when the traffic increase with a certain defined threshold, which is great.
Ansible for automation
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is most trending and popular tool for automation now a days. It uses for vm or cloud or even for appliances as well. It's python based automation software which allow us to create n number of roles and task to manage infrastructure in one go.
What do you dislike about the product?
I personally didn't feel anything which is less useful or things I dislike.but ansible can work on developing better UI and managing task via it. Overall there is nothing on this product which I could say things of dislikes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It automated all jobs which we used to do manually. It also allow us to modify or create existing playbooks. It worked with cloud as well so it's good option for terrafom.
One of the best configuration management DevOps tool that can be integrated with almost every tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like it's the large number of plugins available to complete my job and its idempotent nature.
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislike till now as it has helped a lot to complete my job.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To automate the things through various scripting like automate AD, Infra and more.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Please go for it to Automate your infra and security task.
Amazing Configuration Application!!
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing i like about ansible is push mechanism. Whenever any update on new configuration is available to the server it directly pushes to the nodes connected to it. Unlike chef, nodes do not repeatedly check server for updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ansible works fine in Unix/Linux based systems. for windows, they should work on developing more functionalities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By using ansible, managing server nodes has become easy. Playbooks are written in YAML language which is in human readable format. Unlike chef, it does not have chef-client. Which makes it agentless and less performance overhead.
Ansible - Automation
What do you like best about the product?
- Server Automation
- Application Deployment
- Configuration Management
- Application Deployment
- Configuration Management
What do you dislike about the product?
- Server Creation requires additional software's
- Agent Inventory Management
- Agent Inventory Management
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Automation multiple software deployment
- Managing Infrastructure with Ansible Automation
- Managing Infrastructure with Ansible Automation
Stable Automation Configuration Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Andible is a great tool to manage, maintain,deploy configuration and create or delete servers.
You can also run tasks through all servers.
You can categorising your servers to webservers,db ,etc.
You can also run tasks through all servers.
You can categorising your servers to webservers,db ,etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
The verbosing is not functioning properly.
No User interface and AWX is not the best easy thing to use.
Updates are required in the Shell commands.
Using Yaml is a little bit complex.
No User interface and AWX is not the best easy thing to use.
Updates are required in the Shell commands.
Using Yaml is a little bit complex.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing more than 100 server without any tool it will be a nightmare.
Using ansible make things easier and fast to handle and deploy.
With ansible-playbook you can write your instructions and in just few seconds will be ran across your inventory.
Using ansible make things easier and fast to handle and deploy.
With ansible-playbook you can write your instructions and in just few seconds will be ran across your inventory.
Ansible makes sysadmin and sys building SOOOO Easy!
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how ansible already knows about how to deal with different platform-specific issues. I can use it for RedHat/CentOS as well as Debian/Ubuntu management and buids. I manage lots of different cloud-based servers, as well as physical servers in different infrastructure. Ansible is intelligent enough and powerful enough for me to write automatic build scripts that handle a variety of chores for me. If I do my part to think ahead and design the ansible script properly, it easy does its part to perform the tasks I give it.
What do you dislike about the product?
For whatever reason, I still don't find the YML syntax as intuitive. I would much rather prefer a structured form like a C struct or XML tagged structure. But that's just me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I manage a LOT of platforms. At peak, I had over 1500 machines out in the wild at various cloud and physical infrastructure points. With ansible, I was able to finally take control of uniform system management tasks like adding users, applying patches, distributing code, testing code, etc across all of those end points, without having to individually login to each one.
Automate applications and continuous delivery
What do you like best about the product?
Development applications and connection point point from my main system to where I have my specific software stored and running.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance problem of my main system with applications of different code.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automated platform to execute sripts by ftp to remote server.
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