I am using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as a part of the scale-up of the nodes in OpenShift.
Mostly, we use the solution for upgrading-related stuff.
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A stable solution with a lot of modules to automate one's day-to-day activities
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is that Ansible is agentless.
What needs improvement?
For my day-to-day operations, the one module that I am using is very good, and it is giving the intended results. Ansible has a lot of modules to perform your day-to-day activities. I don't think there will be room for improvement based on the current instances or use cases.
The scalability of the solution has some shortcomings. Thus, the solution's scalability has some room for improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
Though not much, I have experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for two years. I am a customer of the solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for Ansible is very easy.
I'm not using the solution in this containerization. In the present environment, we are not using something like Red Hat Ansible Tower. We are using just an Ansible node which is something we use as a server for accessing all of our nodes and managing all of the nodes. Also, building an Ansible node as a bastion or jump host is a pretty easy task.
What other advice do I have?
Actually, when you are building Ansible Tower, I think you need to go for the pricing. For other things, you don't need to do that, I guess. So it's a pretty good tool to automate your day-to-day or daily tasks or activities that can be done with Ansible. It has a lot of features, helping materials, and modules, which will be helpful in automating one's day-to-day jobs. It's pretty easy for us to upgrade and work with the nodes on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
If you go with any other tools, like Chef or Puppet, they are very hard to configure. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is agentless and pretty straightforward. It will reduce a lot of our headaches in general.
I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Automation using Ansible Automation Platform
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about the Ansible Automation Platform is its UI. Very user-friendly and easy to create templates, inventories, projects and credentials. Wide variety of modules makes it irreplaceable and integrate with multiple tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it lags a bit. Whenever we commit the code in a repo, its not reflecting automatically. I have to go to projects manually and refresh the scm, which is time consuming
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I wanted to automate server validations, restart multiple servers with various validations and Active-Active scenarios, and Handover the automation to support engineers. The UI made it easy to use the Ansible automation platform for the support engineers.
Ansible
What do you like best about the product?
It provides a framework for the infrastructure team to create playbooks for automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice to split the console into multiple monitors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It reduces the time to deliver on service requests and minimizes the time that it takes to provision new environments that support software development.
Very powerful and easy to use!
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy the focus on open source and community involvement.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am still unsure of all the different use cases which can be applied to our environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping user configurations, updates, and deployments easy
Solid Platform
What do you like best about the product?
AAPv2 introduced Automation Mesh, allowing me to better extend our automation .
What do you dislike about the product?
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's licensing can be kind of painful
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Repeatability of infrastructure configuration and deployments
it is a very useful tool for automating processes
What do you like best about the product?
is quick to adapt to the environment not just Linux
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be good to have ready-made playbooks that can be downloaded.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
quick restart of services
Ansible as a tool has helped our sysops team automate many of our everyday tasks
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to automate out our everyday tasks. Helped us work on a more project-based schedule vs tickets
What do you dislike about the product?
The slight learning curve that comes with it and the time it takes to build familiarity
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
simple things like server provisioning that took our teams time in aws to do by hand is now an easy playbook that takes 15min to run
This is a great product
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible Automation Platform gives us an easy web interface to allow anyone to spin up a new production or development server within minutes and no skills required!
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have many downsides that I've run in to yet. I do wish Ansible would get more inventory integrations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Giving developers an easy way to deploy new development environments without the assistance of IT.
Managing thousands of servers across the country within hours instead of days or weeks.
Managing thousands of servers across the country within hours instead of days or weeks.
AAP allowed us to improve processes and free up staff for further engineering.
What do you like best about the product?
We were able to speed up server patching and remove user error in the process. This not only helped our security footprint, but allowed our Linux team to focus on business improvements.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost of licensing. Charging per node led to less integration from other teams.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Server builds, patching, security compliance, network automation. The benefit is that we are freeing up staff to continue to engineer solutions to improve processes.
Ansible = Swiss Army Knife
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to consolidate and automate a multitude of functions across the enterprise and give such a strong ROI to the end user
What do you dislike about the product?
Whats not to like? Ansible is great. Havent found something I dislike yet
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I sell Ansible, and by far it is the easiest product in red hat's catalogue to quickly stand up and show value
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