Ansible

The thing I mentioned earlier where we're constantly dealing with federal regulations or new agents that they want us to install and deploy and just getting those out in a consistent manner in a canned installation via Playbook is ideal.

Red Hat Automation platform is excellent tool to run Ansible jobs for those who are beginners with running and writing Ansible playbooks right up to the experts.

We are looking forward to using the new Event Driven Ansible

We had a set of validation scripts running on hosts before we adopt Ansible Automation Platform. Accessibility and security was a major concern. Also, the scheduling was cron-based and not flexible. Moving to Ansible help us resolve such issues/concerns.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is the best tool out there for carrying out automation processes. On my end, it allows me to manage IT and network procedures across software-defined and cloud-based networks.

The product is invaluable in the areas where post infra deployment configuration is required. It is not too suited for infra deployment as it is hard to maintain and remediate the state.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a one-stop solution for executing and managing automation. I can’t wait to see other business users using this tool to develop and deploy applications.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is remarkable for defining, operating, and delegating automation. On my end, complex manual processes for configuring systems are simplified by this platform.

Ansible and AAP is well suited for orchestrating over many platforms. Its agentless architecture makes it ideal for infrastructure that cannot support an agent. It has a strong module library for the most common products, services, and platforms. It is by far the best language for anyone new to coding or automation to jump in and quickly get to a productive state. While AAP is capable of automating nearly anything, there are still advantages of using other platforms in its place. For example, Chef has been valuable for server automation because of the availability of existing cookbooks. For systems that can run an agent, having the individual nodes perform their own checks can scale a little better than the centralized model of AAP. But running an agent also means the potential risk of resource over utilization.

for confiration and server deployements it is very good to use

Based on its idempotent nature, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is well suited for the following scenarios:

1.) Configuration management: Ansible excels in managing and maintaining consistent configurations across a large number of systems. Whether it's configuring software, network devices, or infrastructure components, Ansible's idempotent operations ensure that desired states are achieved and maintained, even in complex environments.

2.) Continuous deployment and integration (CI/CD): Ansible is well suited for automating application deployment and orchestrating CI/CD pipelines. Its idempotent execution ensures consistent and reproducible deployments, making it easier to roll out updates, manage multiple environments, and integrate with popular CI/CD tools.

3.) Infrastructure provisioning and orchestration: Ansible is an excellent choice for provisioning and managing infrastructure resources. Its idempotent playbooks enable organizations to automate the creation and configuration of servers, virtual machines, containers, and cloud resources, allowing for scalable and consistent infrastructure provisioning.

4.) System administration and operations: Ansible's idempotent nature makes it ideal for system administration tasks and operational automation. Whether it's managing user accounts, updating software packages, or performing routine maintenance tasks, Ansible ensures that operations are executed reliably and consistently across different systems and environments.

Ansible is the way...

For IT shops that do not have much developer experience and/or need to have a robust service catalog, AAP is pretty weak. The hybrid cloud story is muddy at best and could stand to have a CI/CD pipeline-like tool that allows non-developers to create complex workflows using smaller low-code piece parts.

It is well suited to ensure compliance with Security Regulations.

For patching large environments that do not require Redhat Satellite.

I've used service now self-service portal to front-end requests from customers that then kick off Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform templates to complete the requests.

Installing - applying a workflow to a large number of servers.

AAP is well suited for customers that need to automate their configuration but don't necessarily have a lot of in house expertise and would benefit from the support of Red Hat.

Code correction,

Ansible Automation Platform has been solid when applying STIG/CIS guidelines and is great for managing configuration drift.

Ansible has been key to our success with server hardening as well as hardened image creations.

It is very good at working with any Linux system as well as many of the major products on the market. It's hard to work with Microsoft because of the many prerequisites needed on Windows servers. It can also be difficult to work with out of the box with systems that might require extra dependencies that need to be added to an Execution Environment to interact with.

Ramp up and use is not as easy as it supposes to be.

It is well suited for repeated mundane tasks, that takes time but human intervention is not required

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is well suited for infrastructures with repeating patterns and processes.
But also for granular automation it can be used.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform automation can serve as a form of documentation.

There is almost no scenario where Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform makes no sense to use at all.

Configuration management and infrastructure as code.

Patch management and desired state management.