Item: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use AAP to automate our server deployment process, configure network equipment, and install/remove applications and software updates. Our environment is quite large and complex, so automation helps keep it consistent and running smoothly.

Pros and Cons

Workflows
Ease of use
Job templates that enable experts to focus on other tasks rather than training.

Updating projects can be cumbersone.
Inventory management.
Activity dashboard could use improvement.

Return on Investment

Server deployments are exponentially faster.
Configuration drift is minimized, so the environment is more stable.

Alternatives Considered

Progress Chef

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?

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

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform again?

Yes

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.

Ansible is Awesome!

Software Version

Modules Used

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform