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My review for ansible
What do you like best about the product?
Role system is very helpful to write reusable tasks and playbooks. Furthermore, Ansible supports many cloud instances. For example, openstack, amazon(aws).
What do you dislike about the product?
at first, it is hard to understand logic of playbooks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
software deployment to openstack cloud.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ansible has many features including cloud instances(openstack, aws). Furthermore, ansible it is helpful to reuse your own playbooks using role.
One of the best configuration management tool
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, Yaml based language, pre-existing modules to do lot of actual work
What do you dislike about the product?
Actually nothing, I have not faced any cons yet with this product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Configuration management and deployment automation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it, you will absolutely love it
Ansible is the best
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is to create repeatable playbooks for any situation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only complaint I would have is that sometimes the command line commands get a bit long.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Ansible to create and update servers.
Manage configuration effortlessly
What do you like best about the product?
This text describes a system or tool that does not require agents to function. It operates over SSH (Secure Shell) and has the capability to reverse its methodology from pushing to pulling by using Ansible Pull. It is purely based on Ansible and supports dynamic inventory management.
What do you dislike about the product?
If your playbook or role fails at the very last step, the next re-run will repeat all the steps from the beginning. Although Ansible is idempotent, this process wastes a lot of time in large environments. You can tackle this issue using tags, but they need to be added when creating the playbook.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have used Ansible to configure my application and used it to generate the CMDB by collecting the facts generated by Ansible.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ansible is a great configuration management tool. I used the open-source version of it. It's simply awesome. Write your manifest in a YAML file and just deploy it. Since there is no agent and master server concept, your system will not have a single point of failure or additional resource usage on the client side. It just needs SSH, that's it.
I used Ansible not only for deploying servers but also for collecting and gathering facts from remote machines and used it as a CMDB (Configuration Management Database).
I used Ansible not only for deploying servers but also for collecting and gathering facts from remote machines and used it as a CMDB (Configuration Management Database).
A usable solution - however not the best
What do you like best about the product?
Having config files you can version control is a brilliant plus. It lets teams collaborate and keep track of their playbooks.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tooling is built in python and in my experience very flakey. Running playbooks is very unintuitive and there's a fairly large barrier to entry.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provisioning applications and machines. Ansible allowed us to automate this.
Really Enjoy Ansible
What do you like best about the product?
The syntax is very easy, I typically use YAML for all of my application configuration so I'm happy Ansible uses YAML.
It's great that I can run playbooks against servers just over SSH, I don't have to install any agents on the remote servers.
I like how everything just describes what the desired state is and it works idempotently.
We had previously worked with Chef and Puppet and Ansible by far has been the easiest for us to get up and running.
We started out with configuration generated by http://phansible.com/ which helped us get up and running quickly.
It's great that I can run playbooks against servers just over SSH, I don't have to install any agents on the remote servers.
I like how everything just describes what the desired state is and it works idempotently.
We had previously worked with Chef and Puppet and Ansible by far has been the easiest for us to get up and running.
We started out with configuration generated by http://phansible.com/ which helped us get up and running quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
We had a developer running on Windows and we were unable to get it working. Had to jump through some hoops to get that developer onboard.
We tried using Cygwin which is what tutorials on the net suggested, but we were unable to get it to work. We were using it with Vagrant so it's possible it's an issue with Vagrant and Ansible on Windows. This developer was able to get Vagrant running with Puppet.
We tried using Cygwin which is what tutorials on the net suggested, but we were unable to get it to work. We were using it with Vagrant so it's possible it's an issue with Vagrant and Ansible on Windows. This developer was able to get Vagrant running with Puppet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Initially, it was only for configuring vagrant development boxes. Recently we've started experimenting with using it to configure our VPSs. It's coming along very nicely.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ansible has been great for us. It can be tricky if you have developers using Windows. We are a PHP shop so we found the site http://phansible.com/ to be a great asset to get a starting set of configuration.
Have worked on Ansible
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is an IT automation tool. We used it in our Openstack environment to deploy VMs and configure the system. It is written in python so makes it easier to work with. It is also easy to install on the workstation or laptop or even on another VM.
What do you dislike about the product?
Havent worked deeply on Ansible to figure out the downfall of the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use ansible in conjunction with Vagrant to deploy Openstack environment and also VMs in that environment using a software instead of manually deploying it. It is a very powerful tool which helps in automating the task and hence helps in reducing the human errors.
Configuration Management - Ansible
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and very efficient way to work in a team. Bring lots of productivity with this tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike, but as the new technology evolves, this tool needs to be upgraded.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Telecommunications. Configuration management is the benefit I have realized.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Configuration Management
Great for configuring Mesos cluster nodes
What do you like best about the product?
- no agent required, as long as you can establish SSH - it works
- flexibility to run with a dedicated server or with workstations
- allows separation of leader and agent tasks into separate .yaml files that can be called using conditional checks in the main.yaml (control file)
- very readable and powerful template engine
- flexibility to run with a dedicated server or with workstations
- allows separation of leader and agent tasks into separate .yaml files that can be called using conditional checks in the main.yaml (control file)
- very readable and powerful template engine
What do you dislike about the product?
- DNS lookup facility has a python library dependency
- the DSL to use dig lookup to do a reverse lookup is not very readable; it's more readable and reliable to local-exec dig
- need to maintain an inventory of your machines
- the DSL to use dig lookup to do a reverse lookup is not very readable; it's more readable and reliable to local-exec dig
- need to maintain an inventory of your machines
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been able to automate the configuration of our Mesos cluster nodes. Prior to this, configuring Mesos nodes was very manual and error-prone. Now we can provision the nodes with Terraform and configure them in a few minutes rather than going through hours of configuration.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ansible works really well for cattle-type deploys meaning when you need automation/configuration management to build up infrastructure that will be torn down and rebuilt when updating. If you intend on your CF to converge your configs, probably Chef or Puppet works better. In our use case when we upgrade or run into problems, it's quicker for us to destroy the instances in question and reprovision/reconfigure. For this use-case, Ansible works really well.
Simplest configuration management tool available out there
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is an open source solution that makes configuring infrastructures an easy task for sysadmins. In the contrary to other configuration management tools, Ansible is very simple to get started with and it lowers the entry barrier to automation, all you need to write playbooks is a text editor. One of the powerful features of Ansible is that it is agent-less, which means there is no need to install any software on remote systems (especially your client's systems) in order to automate a task (installing a software stack) on these machines. Also, Ansible relies on the SSH protocol while other automation tools use their own protocols that may need special firewall ports to be opened. Furthermore, Ansible can be easily used with tools like Vagrant to automate the provisioning of development environments on local machine.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main drawback is the absence of an open source graphical interface for Ansible that make it easy to monitor the entire inventory. Ansible only provide an command line utility and the only GUI solution available seems to be Ansible Tower which is an enterprise solution. Ansible was recently bought by RedHat so this may raise questions on the direction the project will take in future.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We switched from Chef into Ansible to exclusively automating the provisioning of platforms on AWS (and other Cloud providers) and configuring application stacks for our clients. The stack range from RoR (Ruby on Rails) to Django web applications; to database management and clustering. The switching wasn't very painful, and Ansible helped us quickly writing new automation tasks. Furthermore, we gained a lot from the ability to use Vagrant along with Ansible in order to replicate production environment into the developer's machines and having a huge boost in terms of productivity, detecting bugs and fixing them quickly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ansible has excellent performance, it has no need for installing any agents on remote systems. it's based on python which is a well known language for scripting especially among the sysadmin community. Ansible is the way to go if these properties fit in your day-to-day requirements.
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