Item: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Rating: 8
Author: Tyler Kness-Miller

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for almost every aspect of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS system administration. This product addresses compliance drift, package and repository management, and custom application deployment. The platform manages almost every OS configuration file, ensuring consistency across all systems in a timely and efficient manner.

Pros and Cons

Reliable
Scheduling of Tasks and Jobs
API

UI Improvements
Cleanup
Subscription Count/Inventory Calculation

Return on Investment

Consistency across systems
Timely objective completion
Little to no downtime

Alternatives Considered

Semaphore and Open Source Puppet

It's agentless. Not needing to deploy and maintain an agent on a system I want to maintain is invaluable.

Key Insights

Do you think Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Red Hat OpenShift

Likelihood to Recommend

Compliance drift and enforcement. Having the ability to have scheduled jobs that ensure OS configuration files remain the same is critical. For example, system logging requires a number of files to setup remote log offloading. Using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to both deploy and maintain the configuration files responsible for this need is invaluable and ensures that breakage is found and remediated automatically.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Simple and Powerful

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform