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Automation anywhere
What do you like best about the product?
Event Driven Automation for dynamic playbook
What do you dislike about the product?
Inventory discovery take longer time for large enviroment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Make the standaration of complex activities and ensure the errorless delivery
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Scalable Automation, Non-Scalable Credential Usage
What do you like best about the product?
I've been using AAP for quite a while. In Tower, the concept of creating a "secure bubble wrap" by utilizing virtualenvs was a great idea. However, from my world of Secrets Management, it made it near impossible to get attributes of the workload executing within to identify it without a "secret zero".
Today, in AAP... the containerized execution environments are a game changer! Now, we can determine the attributes of the environment to provide it secrets and when the execution completes -- POOF! -- the container and all secrets within are gone!
This simple change in architecture to improve modernization was an amazing advancement!
Today, in AAP... the containerized execution environments are a game changer! Now, we can determine the attributes of the environment to provide it secrets and when the execution completes -- POOF! -- the container and all secrets within are gone!
This simple change in architecture to improve modernization was an amazing advancement!
What do you dislike about the product?
I said I was in secrets management, so you should see this one coming:
"The Single Credential Problem"
Today, Job Templates only support 1 Machine Credential. If I want to scale a job template across many hosts to patch them efficiently, there is no native way to accomplish this today. I have to utilize a workaround that employs the use of lookup plugins in the playbook and dynamically fetching secrets just-in-time based on inventory_hostname. It was actually my Lightning Talk for AnsibleFest here at Summit this week. The feature request was added to AWX in 2017.
Also, AAP has no underlying OIDC configuration. This makes it hard to utilize an identity-aware process that allows secrets management to utilize attributes of workloads (the "payload" of the JWT from OIDC) to identify them instead of a "secret zero" needing to be utilized. Cloud services and even OpenShift has this support today... a modern AAP should also support the same similar to most CI platforms out there.
"The Single Credential Problem"
Today, Job Templates only support 1 Machine Credential. If I want to scale a job template across many hosts to patch them efficiently, there is no native way to accomplish this today. I have to utilize a workaround that employs the use of lookup plugins in the playbook and dynamically fetching secrets just-in-time based on inventory_hostname. It was actually my Lightning Talk for AnsibleFest here at Summit this week. The feature request was added to AWX in 2017.
Also, AAP has no underlying OIDC configuration. This makes it hard to utilize an identity-aware process that allows secrets management to utilize attributes of workloads (the "payload" of the JWT from OIDC) to identify them instead of a "secret zero" needing to be utilized. Cloud services and even OpenShift has this support today... a modern AAP should also support the same similar to most CI platforms out there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm a Red Hat Partner employed by CyberArk. I don't have business problems that I'm solving for myself, but my customers have business problems they're trying to solve. The largest one is the one I referenced before where these teams are struggling to understand how to efficiently scale to many hosts in a secure way.
Simplifying my life
What do you like best about the product?
I can automating things and apply to my fleet of systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. Everything works great for me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provisioning, patches, and configuration management
Ansible
What do you like best about the product?
Good orchestration tool and config management tool
What do you dislike about the product?
security aspects and error handlling at earlier versions are not good, but I see it is getting better
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IT Automation tool
AAP - Ansible Web UI
What do you like best about the product?
I love the UI that makes running my automation so much easier. I also like thew ability to have RBAC controls for all our different teams,
What do you dislike about the product?
Bug fixes and feature requests are a bit slow
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automations made available to non-technical people to launch.
I use for integrations with gitlab and it's very friendly and usefull
What do you like best about the product?
I use for integrations with gitlab and it's very friendly and usefull
What do you dislike about the product?
maybe we need to improve the use of patterns but we dont find a lot of documetion about it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
the automation of delivery and the integration with gitlab
Ansible review
What do you like best about the product?
agentless, secure and fast. easy to run and manage via ansible
What do you dislike about the product?
slightly complicated in the environment where it has multiple restricted subnets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
easy to patch n number of servers at a time and multiple checks and validation.
Ansible Automation Platform - the best automation platform
What do you like best about the product?
The thing that I love most about AAP is its seamless integration capabilities. We were about to set up a full integration with our ServiceNow platform for automation request intake, as well as CyberArk for secure secret management. Both of which were done with OOB functionality provided by the platform and only took a few days to get operational.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cannot relaunch jobs with DIFFERENT survey parameters.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently, VM distribution/decommissioning and network operation automation.
Incredible for automating repeated tasks in consistent manner
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible allows our IT team to create standardized procedures for consistent software deployment and configuration. Implementation has reduced workstation deployment, standardized our server configurations, and has simplified repetitive management tasks. Our team frequently uses Ansible in day-to-day tasks
What do you dislike about the product?
Ansible can be complicated for new users to start using and developing, but there is comprehensive documentation and plenty of resources online.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have many small networks that require identical configurations, and Ansible is vital to our ability to standardize these environments
Reduce operational errors, it is efficient.
What do you like best about the product?
How practical and intuitive it is, the community is very large and support is obtained very quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
What is practical and already has compatibility with various technologies.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tool to automate patterns and repetitive tasks.
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