I use the product mostly to configure virtual machines.
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Ansible Automation Platform is great, even for non-sysadmins
What do you like best about the product?
AAP is easy to use, even for people who are not really sysadmins, thanks to it's UI and RBAC
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a few UI issues I think could be improved, like it would be helpful to be able to create a group from the hosts area of the inventory.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is allowing us to expand the ability to run more Ansible playbooks to more users, even users who don't have root access to the systems, by allowing them to run select playbooks against select inventories using RBAC.
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A very good automation platform
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use for the whole company, thank you.
What do you dislike about the product?
For the moment, I have nothing bad to say.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
with the patching of Windows and Linux systems for better management of updates and improvements of the operating systems
Overkill when only api is needed
What do you like best about the product?
Execution environments. Packing stuff in containers instead of virtual environments
What do you dislike about the product?
Configuring AAP in hardened environment. Some details are not working as expected when using images from automation hub. (images not pulling
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deployment of repetitive tasks. Like deploying Carbon black servers, configuring API, deploying virtual macjhines from OVA, using API to automate alerts from SOlarwinds etc...
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What do you like best about the product?
Great platform for control and share Playbook across teams
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing special, I think its a good platform
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keep systems in our desired state
Industry standard automation for everyone
What do you like best about the product?
It's very approachable, easy to go from ideas to working solutions in no time!
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the enterprise features are a bit heavy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sitting side-by-side with Puppet, Ansible fills in for ad-hoc changes where Puppet handles base state management.
Using Ansible Automation Platform for centralized configuration and deployment
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible Automation Platform with agentless architecture provides an easy-to-use interface, and APIs, allowing users to automate complex IT tasks and workflows with minimal effort and coding expertise.
Support for a vast ecosystem of modules from infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to application deployment and orchestration.
Support for a vast ecosystem of modules from infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to application deployment and orchestration.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ansible's focus is on task automation rather than real-time monitoring and does not offer advanced monitoring features for real-time visibility into automation processes.
While Ansible is well-suited for most automation tasks that one will have if we have complex or highly customized scenarios that may require additional scripting or custom development, which could increase complexity and require advanced expertise.
Performance Issues are seen during scale when we are running 1000s of jobs there are issues around execution time and resource utilization.
While Ansible is well-suited for most automation tasks that one will have if we have complex or highly customized scenarios that may require additional scripting or custom development, which could increase complexity and require advanced expertise.
Performance Issues are seen during scale when we are running 1000s of jobs there are issues around execution time and resource utilization.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problems solved by the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform include automating the provisioning of infrastructure resources and reducing the time and effort required to set up and scale infrastructure components.
Automation with Ansible reduces manual effort and human error, leading to increased productivity and efficiency for our DevOps teams.
Automation with Ansible reduces manual effort and human error, leading to increased productivity and efficiency for our DevOps teams.
Highly scalable and helps with automation, but the product could do a better job at building infrastructure
What is our primary use case?
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
Stable and scalable automation platform that is highly compatible with other tools
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution for provisioning on different providers like VMware, and OpenStack because it was so easy to implement. This product is also helpful to create a job workflow including the approval steps.
It also includes DevOps tools for making an easy automation process.
How has it helped my organization?
It brings a lot of time-saving.
What is most valuable?
The API for exposing all our infrastructure services is the most valuable feature.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for three months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is very good. We asked the support team about applications, and they answered us. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used multiple tools in the past three years, but we did not use any other similar product to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy. I was not a part of the deployment process, but my team members told me about the deployment process.
What about the implementation team?
The in-house team asked the support team questions.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is an open source product but needs a license subscription to use it. The price depends on the number of nodes supported by the platform (the nodes correspond to a host which can be for example a VM or a data center).
The price is really different depending on the customer's needs.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have evaluated other solutions but this is the one that best meets our need for provisioning automation and addresses the different infrastructure and cloud providers we use
What other advice do I have?
The product can be very easy to use, provided what you are using in it. I did not use the product myself, but it was really impressive when they showed the POC process. I rate it eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
A good open-source software offering broad support and reliability to its users
What is our primary use case?
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.
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.
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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
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