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What is Ansible?

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…

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Is it worth it? | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review | Words from an Automation Architect
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review | Systems Admin Thoughts
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Pricing

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Basic Tower

5,000

On Premise
per year

Enterprise Tower

10,000

On Premise
per year

Premium Tower

14,000

On Premise
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

WebLogic Continuous Deployment with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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Trusted Automation Series: F5 BigIP

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Manage your Cisco devices with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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Network Automation Basics - First Ansible Playbook

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Deep Dive - Automated NetOps - Ansible for Network GitOps

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Product Details

What is Ansible?

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.

Its Automation Hub provides a one-stop-shop for Ansible content that is backed by support from Red Hat and its partners to deliver additional reassurance for demanding environments.

The Ansible project and Ansible Engine are open source technologies. The Ansible project is built by the community (ansible.com/community) for the benefit of the community. Ansible Engine is developed by Red Hat with the explicit intent of being used as an enterprise IT platform.

Ansible Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsLinux
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Performance highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of Ansible are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to automate tasks so that things are consistent and across the board, we use it to deploy software, deploy agents, basically automation. Consistency or inconsistency. When we're doing installations or configuration on different boxes, it helps us see problems and differences, inconsistency when we have different staff members doing things differently, it helps us implement a sense of control around that.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform throughout or IT department. Our goal is to automate as much of the administration as possible as well as the repetitive tasks that we do every day. It also helps with configuration/patching and server builds
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
From early 2020 when I joined my current organization, I have been using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on a daily-basis. It allows me to deploy, configure and deliver applications automatically.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the AAP as a building block in many end-to-end infrastructure and platform related build and deployment processes as well as a foundation for maintaining IaC and CasC principles that we adhere in the organization. The major complaint would be related to fair number of bugs the most of the new releases contain. The regression testing process can be improved at this point. Also, sometimes the bug fixes don’t get backported to the previous minor release, which forces us to perform more frequent upgrades. It impacts the platform availability due to increased number of maintenance windows required to support the product. At this point we always run on N-1 minor release to ensure stability (over new features and bugs that a just released version normally contains). It would be great if all the bug fixes are backported to the previous minor releases.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Firewall Policy Automation to allow app teams to directly generate their required access on the Firewall, Load Balancer automation for building VIPs and moving traffic with pipelines, creating new networks in IP space and on network devices, network compliance that enforces audit requirements on several platforms, automated credential rotation on infrastructure, data gathering, TLS certificate installs, monitoring, and automated self-healing, as well as hundreds of automation tasks outside of the infrastructure teams.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The platform addresses several business problems, such as:

1.) Manual and repetitive tasks: Ansible Automation Platform helps eliminate manual, repetitive tasks by automating them. This reduces human error, increases efficiency, and allows IT teams to focus on more strategic initiatives.

2.) Configuration management: Managing configurations across a large number of systems can be challenging. Ansible Automation Platform enables centralized management of configurations, ensuring consistency and compliance across the infrastructure.

3.) Application deployment and orchestration: Deploying and managing applications across different environments can be time-consuming and error-prone. Ansible Automation Platform simplifies application deployment and provides orchestration capabilities to streamline the process.

4.) Infrastructure provisioning: Provisioning and managing infrastructure resources can be complex, especially in cloud or hybrid environments. Ansible Automation Platform helps automate infrastructure provisioning, enabling organizations to scale resources efficiently and consistently.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Post-provisioning configuration management to provide automated OS & application installation/configuration for VMs provisioned via Aria Automation. Provides faster, more agility and removes risk from human error when configuring applications to meet specific customer-facing use cases.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I deploy Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform inside customer environments and write playbooks for customers that will be used inside the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Problems addressed are anything from configuration drift. Automating data backups on a random schedule.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AAP as our configuration management tool. We create and manage golden images and host the images in multiple cloud platforms for end user consumption. When an end user consumes/deploys one of our golden images, we use event detection to call AAP and finalize the hardening of the device. We also use AAP to manage configuration drift in the form of DSC.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Operating system server hardening on existing Vms. Azure and AWS cloud resource creation. Ansible playbooks for repeatable fixes. VM image creation and publishing and automation integration with other IT systems. We also use Ansible for data collection and ad-hoc executions across multiple network segments and environments. we use Ansible to deploy terraform jobs across azure and aws
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Ansible Automation Platform to deploy Java Springboot services onto RHEL. We recently began to use it to make changes to our Citrix Netscaler. There is a requirement that a change be made to a load balanced virtual server twice a day, once at 7am and once at 7pm. We wrote a playbook and scheduled it to keep a person from having to be available 7 days a week to make a simple change. Since then that group has begun to develop other playbooks to be able to create the entities on the Netscaler instead of creating them manually everytime.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helped me configure virtual machines in research lab environments for my bachelor thesis.
This allowed a predefined configuration of Ubuntu hosts while resetting those after every lab assessment.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Build custom modules and roles for Dell infrastructure products for tasks like storage provisioning and server management. The modules and roles are available on Galaxy and the source code repos on GitHub. The modules help our customers do end to end automation for cloud-like operational agility. We also Create demos on how to use them.
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