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The best tool for automated configuration management
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is extremely easy to use.
You just need to write few lines of code and it works. Using SSH, Ansible can send commands to 500 servers in a go.
It reduces lot of errors which in case of manual configuration would have introduced easily.
We need to simply run playbooks natively via SSH installed on the hosts machines.
You just need to write few lines of code and it works. Using SSH, Ansible can send commands to 500 servers in a go.
It reduces lot of errors which in case of manual configuration would have introduced easily.
We need to simply run playbooks natively via SSH installed on the hosts machines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much except that YAML syntax is somewhat complex, Although YAML is now a go to format for sharing data, JSON support would have been an added advantage.
Also it has a limitation as compared to Terraform of unable to dynamically changing host files.
Also it has a limitation as compared to Terraform of unable to dynamically changing host files.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been using Ansible to configure huge set of networking devices in a go. With SDN evolving immensely, lot of networking devices now has a need to be configured remotely and at one go.
Using Ansible we have configured 100's of switches, firewalls, gateways and without much hassle.
Life of an administrator/engineer has changed a lot. Very few mistakes and increased productivity
Using Ansible we have configured 100's of switches, firewalls, gateways and without much hassle.
Life of an administrator/engineer has changed a lot. Very few mistakes and increased productivity
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is the best automation tool. Depending on your use-case there are multiple options available in market, but Ansible is preferred tool for most of the use-cases.
It has increased the productivity of lot of engineers to a greater extend.
It has increased the productivity of lot of engineers to a greater extend.
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Worthwhile tool for configuring any environment without installing any agent on the endpoint
What do you like best about the product?
Generally its very difficult to manage large groups of servers but Redhat Ansible makes it very easy to configure them. With idempotent operations its better than all its competitors. Its integration with most of the scripting languages make it a dynamic tool to implemen CI/CD tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Logging is not so apt. Error message doesn't give clear reason for root cause of the issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helped in configuring on-premise, virtual machines as well as cloud nodes. Found an edge for deploying instances, configuring them and performing networking configurations. We used it mainly for server/cluster creations and tear-down.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Runs over SSH so its really very easy to perform any operation on the remote machines. This is a good to go product for configuring production grade environments.
Make configuration management not bash
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is a part of IaC (Infrastructure as Code). IaC is a modern approach and I believe that infrastructure is code. It means that we should use the same philosophy for infrastructure as for software development. If we are talking that infrastructure is code, then we should reuse practices from development for infrastructure. Ansible allows us to implement this approaches, i.e. S.O.L.I.D. for ansible, pair devopsing and IaC Testing Pyramid.
However, there are some some basic benefits:
* Efficient : Agentless.
* Simple : Declarative language.
* Secure : SSH / WinRM transport.
* Powerful & Flexible : Modules.
* Mature : Supported by Red Hat.
However, there are some some basic benefits:
* Efficient : Agentless.
* Simple : Declarative language.
* Secure : SSH / WinRM transport.
* Powerful & Flexible : Modules.
* Mature : Supported by Red Hat.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes people follow imperative approach instead of declarative during developing Ansible playbooks. As a result they don't have idempotent playbooks. It's extremely hard to maintain that kind of roles. Also in the vast majority of cases people forget to implement testing procedure for ansible code.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There are some use cases:
* Configure VMs.
* Create new VMs.
* Create VM template as a Packer provisioner.
* Install your application.
* Create docker images.
* Install your aplication to k8s/openshift.
* Configure VMs.
* Create new VMs.
* Create VM template as a Packer provisioner.
* Install your application.
* Create docker images.
* Install your aplication to k8s/openshift.
Useful IT configuration software
What do you like best about the product?
Makes applications and systems easier to deploy. It also uses a very simple boilerplate for this implementation that is easy to scale and upgrade with little Ansible knowledge. Uses its own yaml language which has little to no learning curve. Helpful and attractive output logging. Also supported by RedHat!
What do you dislike about the product?
Probably not as much documentation on it as one would prefer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Some of the terminology can be a bit confusing and no built-in GUI. Benefits include easy to pick up and learn, very little learning curve. Very useful and easy to scale and do a multitude of different tasks with.
Relatively small learning curve, incredibly powerful at the amazing price of free
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible makes managing a large number of network devices incredibly easy and fast. Using ansible I've been able to make changes to our network infrastructure at a pace that no one else at our company has been able to previously. I've modified and endured consistent configuration across 11 datacenters and 7000+ network devices in a single day.
What do you dislike about the product?
The hardest thing to get past is the change in mindset and getting people onboard. You will have we to stop thinking about what the infrastructure currently looks like and start thinking about what do you want it to look like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has acted as a force multiplier and fundamentally changed the way we administer our fleet of network devices. It's allowed us to execute massive changes very quickly and repeatedly without human error and helped us ensure that our configuration is consistent across multiple environments which helps us deliver reliable infrastructure that can meet our clients demanding SLAs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need an agentless configuration management tool for network devices this is pretty much the only player in that market, but if you're looking for configuration management on the server side there are a few options each with their own advantages & disadvantages
Sensible review
What do you like best about the product?
Doing same process on different machines at the same time is the best thing of ansible. As we are moving with new technology as per the market , this tool is so useful when it comes to the automation part. Lot of articles are present over internet to learn ansible only if you have hands on Unix environment then learning will be so easy for any one.
What do you dislike about the product?
To get hands on over ansible tool , first we have to complete the pre requisites Luke learning YAML language to create a inventory file. Ansible can't work on the older versions of linux as still many organisation does have their application on legacy environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have automated the weblogic patching and deployment over different machines at the same time over one click onto weblogic tool.
Ansible tower has been key to our configuration management automation
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and integration to other 3rd party tools is seamless.
What do you dislike about the product?
The licensing is more expensive vs. other configuration platforms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Ansible Tower to automate normal L1 troubleshooting responses dealing with customer outages and reported issues
Easy and amazing
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy the adaptability, with proper code organization you can automate any process you want at any difficulty. The ease to set up Ansible, being an agent-less tool. You can get started without installing any software on the target machine where you would like to run your automation. Ansible is an amazing tool who allows to automating SysAdmin tasks like a big performance of the same events or managing updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
Support for windows settings are restrained, it is still better than previous versions but there is still a lot of work to do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ansible has allowed me to implement very complex automation in a clean, reusable manner.
Ansible Tower
What do you like best about the product?
It is the one tool for codes and it has a large number of templates. Scalability of hundreds of nodes is easy. Also you can share your code at anytime across teams even during deployments.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is not very handy for windows users. Have to recheck the compatibility with new devices each time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am an IT professional and I am using it for automation, deployment and speed productivity. And for analytics around automation deployments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good dashboards, access controls, and scheduling help to bring Ansible Tower into the enterprise. Great support for multiple playbooks. Makes deployment easier.
Great solution for devops and continuum integration
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible Tower helped our team to automize testing applications and continuum development, it was a great choice for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the integration could be a little bit difficult we did not found many documentation specially when we tried to integrate the solution with other one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automatic deployment is now a reality in our company and we did it just with Ansible tower
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