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.
$5,000
per year
Pricing
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Editions & Modules
Basic Tower
5,000
per year
Enterprise Tower
10,000
per year
Premium Tower
14,000
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Ansible
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
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Chose Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
I haven't thought of any right now other than just doing our own home-brewed shell scripts. Command line scripts. And how does this compare? It's light years ahead, especially with the ability to share credentials without giving the person the actual credentials. You can …
AAP is a building block in majority of build/deployment and configuration processes that involve the traditional compute (ie. bare metal and VM based) systems running RHEL, as well as the modern platforms to run containerized workloads, such as OpenShift. We use AAP to automate …
AAP doesn't truly stack up against any of the products mentioned except for Aria Automation. But, it is extensible and open and has a lower cost to entry.
Red Hat automation platform was selected after using Ansible core for several years. we write playbooks for windows and RHEL systems and needed a supported solution vs using AWX.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is much easier to setup than Puppet, because it is agentless. The Ansible community seems to be more active than Puppet's in the recent years. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform does not require learning a programming language where Puppet …
We needed highly secure environment and the need of support was one of the top priorities. The API was needed to manualy run configured playbooks and feed them with variables. Virtual environments were not scalling well when there were additional nodes needed, like isolated …
It was much simpler to deploy and use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in our enterprise environment. Red Hat has great training to get our users up to speed. YAML is easy to write (although watch out for spacing) and run playbooks. We can easily generate infrastructure …
All three of these competitors are agent based. I did not want an additional service that needed to run absolutely everywhere. I also did not want to maintain a load balanced cluster of master servers that grows in resource requirements as your infrastructure scales.