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Overview

What is Ansible?

The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments…

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Recent Reviews

Ansible is Awesome!

10 out of 10
May 09, 2024
Incentivized
We use AAP to automate our server deployment process, configure network equipment, and install/remove applications and software updates. …
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Awards

Products that are considered exceptional by their customers based on a variety of criteria win TrustRadius awards. Learn more about the types of TrustRadius awards to make the best purchase decision. More about TrustRadius Awards

Popular Features

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  • Parallel Execution (40)
    8.9
    89%
  • Infrastructure Automation (44)
    8.8
    88%
  • Automated Provisioning (41)
    8.5
    85%
  • Reporting & Logging (41)
    7.5
    75%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Video Reviews

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Is it worth it? | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review | Words from an Automation Architect
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review | Systems Admin Thoughts
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Pricing

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Basic Tower

5,000

On Premise
per year

Enterprise Tower

10,000

On Premise
per year

Premium Tower

14,000

On Premise
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

WebLogic Continuous Deployment with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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Trusted Automation Series: F5 BigIP

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Manage your Cisco devices with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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Network Automation Basics - First Ansible Playbook

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Deep Dive - Automated NetOps - Ansible for Network GitOps

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Features

Configuration Management

Tools and features offered by configuration management software.

8.4
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

What is Ansible?

The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.

Its Automation Hub provides a one-stop-shop for Ansible content that is backed by support from Red Hat and its partners to deliver additional reassurance for demanding environments.

The Ansible project and Ansible Engine are open source technologies. The Ansible project is built by the community (ansible.com/community) for the benefit of the community. Ansible Engine is developed by Red Hat with the explicit intent of being used as an enterprise IT platform.

Ansible Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsLinux
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.

Reviewers rate Parallel Execution highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Ansible are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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May 10, 2024

Review of Ansible Automation Platform and hopes for the future!

Greg Jewett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Greg Jewett
Senior DevOps Architect and Developer
University of Texas at Austin (Education Management, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It has helped save us so much time, as it was designed to automate mundane and repetitive tasks that we were using other tools to perform and that required so much manual intervention. It does not work very well within Windows environments, understandably, but I would love to see more integration. I want it to be sexy and attractive to more than just geeky sysadmins.
May 10, 2024

AAP Review.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 201-500 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I know my colleagues on the Windows side of things have felt neglected at Ansiblefest as far as sessions that help them figure out how to integrate the tool with their Windows products. Since Ansible is seen as an enterprise-wide tool, it should better support Windows platforms as well, as everything cannot always be run on Linux or a similar OS. Ansible has been great for our basic needs so far in automation. Still, we do struggle with adoption, and sometimes there are just scenarios where, as a non-developer, trying to adapt to the developed way of thinking is difficult. When i was learning Anisble, I had to learn Git and YAML together, as well as any CLI I needed, or what execution environments were. It's a lot to ramp up to and learn all at once.
May 10, 2024

Best option to deploy and maintain infrastructure.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Taking long routine work and placing it behind an easily scalable and efficient workflow. Being able to schedule items to self-remediate unauthorized changes on servers is beneficial to ensure security and proper configuration state. The ability to quickly deploy infrastructure and all underlying software. User provisioning is a breeze to ensure proper state for non-domain workstations.
May 10, 2024

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform review

Lenny Shirley II | TrustRadius Reviewer
Lenny Shirley II
IT Engineer, Server & Cloud Computing
Smithfield (Food Production, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Anything you need to repeat more than twice, and anything that can normally only be done by one or two people can now be automated so others can just click Launch. It's especially nice when I can provide a non-techy person the ability to log in, and click launch to do a task that they normally needed to escalate to one or more people to get done, and now instead of them waiting, it's done instantly.
May 09, 2024

AAP Helped Us Become a Culture of Automation

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I feel that AAP can be used for any repetitive engineering or operations tasks. The initial lift can be heavy and culture can be hard to change. Once the benefits are realized, you will allow those people to move on to proactively improving their environment instead of working in a more reactionary state of mind.
May 09, 2024

Ansible is Awesome!

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I like the defined inventories that can be included with our playbooks to help ensure automated tasks are running where we expect them to run when we expect them to run. The ability to repeatedly run jobs without requiring yet another agent on our infrastructure is fantastic.
May 09, 2024

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Simple and Powerful

Tyler Kness-Miller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tyler Kness-Miller
Principal Systems Engineer III (Unix/Linux)
ECS Federal (Government Administration, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
May 08, 2024

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Patching has been a great use for our team. We also like to use it for building fresh virtual machines to ensure they are STIGd. We don't have a specific place where Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform seems to have issues. Most problems tend to be less tech savvy users failing to understand how to leverage the tool effectively.
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