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165 Ratings
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Based on 165 reviews and ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend

8.0
Bamboo
80%
22 Ratings

9.7
Ansible
97%
29 Ratings
Usability

6.5
Bamboo
65%
2 Ratings

Ansible
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance

Bamboo
N/A
0 Ratings

8.7
Ansible
87%
10 Ratings
Support Rating

7.3
Bamboo
73%
12 Ratings

7.8
Ansible
78%
4 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Bamboo
If you value integration over cost, Bamboo is clearly the way to go. It offers tight integration to the rest of the Atlassian suite, and when you need traceability from issue to build, Atlassian is the right way to go. However, if you find yourself needing to save on costs, you may consider taking an approach of rolling your own build system with open source alternatives, such as Jenkins, if you don't [mind] putting in a little extra elbow grease.

Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development
Pharmaceuticals Company, 5001-10,000 employeesAnsible
That is a big task for all the functionality now in Ansible Collections - Ethernet Networking, Fibre Channel Networking, Wireless networking, LB/ADC configuration & changes. Storage config and changes, VMware provisioning and changes, Windows Desktop provision when paired w/ a tool like Zuul, Workflow integration w/ ServiceNow (SNOW), Testing framework such as Molecule really all you to ensure what you have in your playbooks is solid...prior to deployment not when released to your consumers; Critical. Consistent runbooks instead of managing tons of scripts allows for cross-team training and functionality in a true disaster scenario. Additionally, conversion tools from other IT automation offerings Puppet and Chef, integration into Cloud environments. The list grows daily so jump in the water is just right!

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employeesPros
Bamboo
- Levels of granularity. Organization has many projects that have many build plans that have many jobs that have many tasks, etc. And branch builds allow source control branches to be built separately.
- Versatility. I can use bamboo to manage my Java, node, or .NET build plans. I can use it to spin up Windows or Linux build agents, or install it on a Mac to build there as well.
- Bamboo integrates with other Atlassian products like Bitbucket, Stash, JIRA, etc. If a company commits to the entire Atlassian stack then work can be tracked through the whole development lifecycle which is really useful.
Web Developer
CDK GlobalComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees
Ansible
- Agentless. For our implementation, this is the single biggest factor. If we have to touch the machine and install an agent before we can start managing it, that's already too much effort and slows us down.
- Re-entrant. This is not unique to Ansible, but certainly a huge improvement over custom scripts and such. Because it's such a huge effort to make scripts re-entrant, most of our scripts did not allow an elegant way to recover on failure. Manually cleaning up the half-attempt and re-trying is still too cumbersome, and being able to just re-run Ansible is a great improvement!
- Infrastructure as code. This is new to Ansible, and there are still a few minor bugs with their AWS modules, but it's been a huge help being able to define our infrastructure in an Ansible playbook, commit it to source control, and use one tool for all our DevOps tasks.
DevOps Engineer
AviziaHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees
Cons
Bamboo
- Extremely hard barrier to entry for non-backend developers
- Blackbox makes it hard to customize functionality
- The inability to add features without breaking core functionality
- No cloud solution
- Tasks cannot be put in if/else statements
- No clear right way to form build plans
UI Engineer
Advance DigitalPublishing, 501-1000 employees
Ansible
- Ansible Tower is a paid service, which can be annoying at times. But that is understandable, as it requires an additional level of support from the Ansible team to develop.
- There is a decently large learning curve for someone not familiar with setting up Unix environments. However, there is a very large support community with tons of documentation, so it's not a dealbreaker.
DevOps Engineer
CBREReal Estate, 10,001+ employees
Pricing Details
Bamboo
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Bamboo Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Ansible
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$5,000 per year
Ansible Editions & Modules
Edition
Basic Tower | $5,0001 |
---|---|
Enterprise Tower | $10,0001 |
Premium Tower | $14,0001 |
- per year
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
Bamboo
Bamboo 6.5
Based on 2 answers
Bamboo was fairly easy to navigate but in the end it always felt as if it was developed as a bolt-on and not a true group up user interface. There were multiple ways to get to everything and the path was never the same. So it was difficult for users to really get a feel of how to use the application.
Technical Lead
Newell RubbermaidConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees
Ansible
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Performance
Bamboo
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Ansible
Ansible 8.7
Based on 10 answers
Ansible is very friendly to start with. With just a few configurations, you have full management to your servers. You can configure it and implement it in seconds. You can also set up a cron job to make sure it gets implemented. It suits our need perfectly. Support can be a bit hard.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employeesSupport Rating
Bamboo
Bamboo 7.3
Based on 12 answers
Support for Bamboo has started lack a little over the years. Atlassian has been moving more towards Bitbucket Pipelines and away from the on-premise install of Bamboo. While the tool is still great, it may take a little bit of time to get a question answered by official support.

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 10,001+ employeesAnsible
Ansible 7.8
Based on 4 answers
There is a lot of good documentation that Ansible and Red Hat provide which should help get someone started with making Ansible useful. But once you get to more complicated scenarios, you will benefit from learning from others. I have not used Red Hat support for work with Ansible, but many of the online resources are helpful.
Lead System Engineer
Azusa Pacific UniversityHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Bamboo
We selected Bamboo because its capabilities to integrate with other Atlassian products specially Jira Software, Bitbucket and in some useful scenarios with Confluence. Also, we found these pros important for us: great user interface, easily agent deployment, Docker compability, simply to maintain / manage, and straightforwardly integration with different notification platforms

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Government Relations Company, 201-500 employeesAnsible
Ansible is a great product, which we really love as it is compatible running along side and with other DevOps tool. The integration features allows other teams to participate in our shared objective. Ansible is easy to use as many programmers are familiar with Python and RHEL. We selected Ansible because its easy barrier to entry and pricing model for new users with not many nodes to manage. We will continue to develop and on-board teams and monitor the scaling abilities of Ansible.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesReturn on Investment
Bamboo
- It helped us achieve the Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration goals for our applications, a huge milestone that saved a lot of time for developers in making the builds and deployments and saved time for QA in running the automated tests.
- Helped with DevOps: we moved the formal approval from the email to the system and allowed the approver to actually push the button for the production deployments.
- Biggest positive impact of using Bamboo is that it improved our response time to customers and increased the frequency of our deliveries to them.
Senior Software Development Manager
eSiliconSemiconductors, 501-1000 employees
Ansible
- We have been able to deploy solutions to client issues without impacting uptime.
- Most system administration tasks have been automated so I am now free to work on architectural improvements or customer support.
- Our customer support has improved thanks to Ansible as it has allowed me more time away from repetitive system activities so I may assist with customer questions and application testing.
Devops Engineer
SolidifyHRInsurance, 11-50 employees