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Ansible is one stop shop for all automation needs
What do you like best about the product?
Can cover basically all parts of automation, be it Infrastructure as code, Application deployments or security automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Basically, there is nothing to dislike about ansible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation! We were able to eliminate multiple tools we used and started using Ansible for almost everything, for both our cloud as well as on-prem infrastructure.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The Inbuild modules basically can cover everything you need. but, if it doesn't, you can build your own.
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Ansible Automation is Powerful
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is designed to be very simple, reliable and consistent. It lets you quickly deploy and easily deploy multitier apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
A new Ansible user will take certain time to understand how to use this platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used to solve problems regarding deployment of the applications. The benefits of this Ansible automation is once we know how easy it is to manage and configure then it becomes very easy for our next deployments.
Best Configuration Management tool for Infrastructure Automation/Configuration
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use and very powerful tool in todays IT world. Redhat provide Ansible Tower REST APIs as well so that It can be integrated with multiple other tools as well. Managing 1000s of nodes is just a piece of cake.
What do you dislike about the product?
No Major cons as this is the best automation tool, I have worked with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
daily issues in productions like configuring of linux and windows servers with different packages and doing configuration changes for IT needs. Deployment of applications etc.
Ansible Engine
What do you like best about the product?
- Very easy to implement and light weight.
- Cross platform usage.
- Excellent documentation available on web, version wise. Plus point for a new user.
- Easy to configure and setup. Also, the configuration covers extensive features.
- Availability of Python modules are very important and development friendly.
- It offers a new design to bring "enterprise-grade global support" to ansible automation projects.
- Provides Networking add-ons including full support for selected networking platforms.
- Best for Cloud related setup and development. Also allows you to do Multi-Cloud DevOps Operations.
- Good community response, if you have any query.
- Cross platform usage.
- Excellent documentation available on web, version wise. Plus point for a new user.
- Easy to configure and setup. Also, the configuration covers extensive features.
- Availability of Python modules are very important and development friendly.
- It offers a new design to bring "enterprise-grade global support" to ansible automation projects.
- Provides Networking add-ons including full support for selected networking platforms.
- Best for Cloud related setup and development. Also allows you to do Multi-Cloud DevOps Operations.
- Good community response, if you have any query.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Windows can be a pain. Very less support for Windows. Linux machine is preferable.
- Not so good GUI. It can be better.
- Creating extensive logic in the playbooks are simpler in other scripting languages. Here it is a little tricky.
- MSSQl and Vault are some of the modules that should also be included.
- Only SSH connection by default.
- Should have a better error handling mechanism.
- Too many modules can create a confusion some times, but due to good documentation it can be solved easily.
- It is hard to pass run-time parameters in Ansible.
- Not so good GUI. It can be better.
- Creating extensive logic in the playbooks are simpler in other scripting languages. Here it is a little tricky.
- MSSQl and Vault are some of the modules that should also be included.
- Only SSH connection by default.
- Should have a better error handling mechanism.
- Too many modules can create a confusion some times, but due to good documentation it can be solved easily.
- It is hard to pass run-time parameters in Ansible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Ansible everyday in our CI/CD pipeline and task automation on computing and configuring clusters.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Even though it looks complicated, but still it is user friendly and
Had a very "easy and efficent to use" experience
What do you like best about the product?
the best part I like about ansible is that it is very easy to use. internal SSH connection does not let us worry about connectivity . I have used ansible to deploy scripts and retrieving logs from a remote machine. I have also used ansible to create AWS EC2 instances.
the thing that I like the most is that the documentation provided by the ansible team for every bit of work. its really helpful.
the thing that I like the most is that the documentation provided by the ansible team for every bit of work. its really helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ansible does not tracks the dependencies . hence it keeps on executing and stops when there is a failure or error without proper error messages. This feature is provided by other automation tools in the market.
ansible generally provides a command line interface .A graphical user interface would make the work lot more easier.
ansible generally provides a command line interface .A graphical user interface would make the work lot more easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
previously I was using putty for remote connections and I used to transfer the scripts using "scp" or "ftp" and then I ran the scripts manually. but ansible made is easy as we could create a yml file, define all the tasks in the yml file and prove as may as remote machine details in the host file. Ansible handled the whole task very smoothly and ran did the whole process on all the machines at the same time saving efforts and time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
ansible is new to market hence you might find it complicated but its simpler than other automation tools present In market and the ansible team has already provided a huge number of document to help.
Ansible: The masterpiece without hassle A graceful tool for configuration-management and deployment.
What do you like best about the product?
Time saving:- Administration tasks such as patching systems can be done quickly and remotely at ease with the help of packaging module, updating and rebooting a system, restarting virtual machines can be done conveniently and efficiently.
Easy configuration management language: - It uses YAML language to write playbooks which is very easy to understand that can be used from developer to n/w admin.
Agentless remote systems:- It requires no agents to install on remote system
Native protocols:- Depending upon device types It uses native protocol like SSH for Unix, WinRM for windows etc.
Cloud native infrastructure management:- It can be used in the process of container build, Cluster management, application life-cyles and many more.
It is open source, you can also write your own plugins, Ansible tower which is easy to use web-based ui.
Easy configuration management language: - It uses YAML language to write playbooks which is very easy to understand that can be used from developer to n/w admin.
Agentless remote systems:- It requires no agents to install on remote system
Native protocols:- Depending upon device types It uses native protocol like SSH for Unix, WinRM for windows etc.
Cloud native infrastructure management:- It can be used in the process of container build, Cluster management, application life-cyles and many more.
It is open source, you can also write your own plugins, Ansible tower which is easy to use web-based ui.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is platform dependent therefore the code written in one OS will not work on another.
It is slow as compared to other tool like salt
Push model is slow.
Ansible doesn,t fail fast if there is any config error:- There is no feature to check the modules on pre-conditions. So in ansible with minimum syntax check it moves forward till it reaches the module with an error while altering the host config and leaving your host in partially config state.
It is slow as compared to other tool like salt
Push model is slow.
Ansible doesn,t fail fast if there is any config error:- There is no feature to check the modules on pre-conditions. So in ansible with minimum syntax check it moves forward till it reaches the module with an error while altering the host config and leaving your host in partially config state.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is used for application deployment without going directly to the desk which saves our time.
It is easy to use as compared to power shell.
It is easy to use as compared to power shell.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need to setup configuration management tool and deployment tool urgently. Ansible is the best platform for setting up your IT environment. As it is very easy to pick up concepts and start working on and documentation is also readable. It is understandable right from network administrator to manager, developer .
One of best Config Management and Orchestration tool
What do you like best about the product?
Very simple and powerful tool for automation in complex muti-tier application environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Log debugging is complex and not straigt forward task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation of deployment of micro-services in k8s infrastructure using playbooks. Automating services build and deployment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nice and easy way to automate service deployment in complex and dynamic development environment.
Amazing automation tool
What do you like best about the product?
it is agent less make it easy to use it, NON-IT person can use Ansible’s playbooks,it useful for IT orchestrating and deployment
What do you dislike about the product?
We can't do execute tasks parallel and custom module is hard to debug.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am automation developer, i uses to deploy infra on cloud platform, testcases testing automation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes, Use Ansible for repetitive tasks
A Cloud provisioning solution
What do you like best about the product?
1. Easy to setup and deploy stack for cloud servers
2. Its Agent-less architecture handles it using ssh or paramiko modules as it is written in python
3. Security aspects it is highly preferred as it uses ssh for communication
2. Its Agent-less architecture handles it using ssh or paramiko modules as it is written in python
3. Security aspects it is highly preferred as it uses ssh for communication
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing i dislike is Its comparatively slow than other cloud provisioning tools eg. Salt as it uses ssh for communication between nodes..
While salt uses ZeroMQ. which is fast
While salt uses ZeroMQ. which is fast
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Cloud provisioning
2. application deployment
3. software updates and upgrades on cloud servers.
2. application deployment
3. software updates and upgrades on cloud servers.
Best deployment tool and configuration.
What do you like best about the product?
we can configure several machines from the single Ansible. Server in-built modules are provided and is very easy to use.I would recommend to go through the official Ansible docs for beginners also try using the best practices from starting.should have basic knowledge of python prior using ansible.Always search for existing modules.Read all error messages carefully before moving further.
What do you dislike about the product?
Error messages should give detailed information about the error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating test cases, single playbook can be used for multiple machines.
Using ansible makes things easy.
can deploy same thing on several machines.
Using ansible makes things easy.
can deploy same thing on several machines.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
we can configure several machines from the single Ansible. Server in-built modules are provided and is very easy to use.Always search for existing modules.Read all error messages carefully before moving further.I would recommend to go through the official Ansible docs for beginners also try using the best practices from starting.should have basic knowledge of python prior using ansible.Automating test cases, single playbook can be used for multiple machines.
Using ansible makes things easy.
can deploy same thing on several machines.
Using ansible makes things easy.
can deploy same thing on several machines.
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