Overall Satisfaction with Ansible
Ansible is being used by our university IT engineering group that is responsible for managing and maintaining 700+ servers of different sizes and roles in hosting applications. We have a diverse datacenter environment with a variety of workloads and Ansible helps us to manage, primarily, our Linux servers, doing maintenance and orchestration tasks such as provisioning servers with particular configurations and run operational tasks on large subsets of servers.
- Simple implementation by using readable yaml playbooks.
- Natively has many modules that integrate with various software and technologies.
- There are still some modules that should be native but are not (MSSQL, Vault, etc).
- Creating extensive logic in the playbooks is not as straightforward as other scripting languages.
- More efficient management of servers.
- More quickly able to create playbooks to automate tasks.
Ansible is a lot simpler to learn and implement. It has a lot of native functionality and modules to connect to many different software and server types, so is very usable out of the box. Its use of native communication protocols (SSH) makes it so that no agent is needed, which, in my opinion, increases its reliability.
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