Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review
We use it to automate tasks so that things are consistent and across the board, we use it to deploy software, deploy agents, basically …
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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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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.
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 Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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February 26, 2024
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review
- I'd say positive. It helps us meet our compliance requirements consistently and lets us turn things around faster when we find things that are out of compliance because we normally already, once we develop a playbook, it's there, we pick it back up off the shelf and run the same thing again. We don't have to go through an exercise every time or bring somebody else up to speed. The playbook is already out there and just go run it.
June 09, 2023
If you use Ansible you should use Red Hat AAP
- The product allows Administrators to focus on more advanced issues as the previous repetitve tasks can be offloaded onto AAP2
- The time saved on configuration management has been huge
June 09, 2023
Use Ansible to automate application validations
- Help us automate the application validations
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Eradication of manual workflow saves time.
- Collaboration of teams in my organization allows us to share and reuse automations.
- Streamlines PXE booting processes that makes it seamless and rapid to create virtual and cloud instances.
June 06, 2023
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as the essential building block in the enterprise automation ecosystem
- Automation of routine and repetitive tasks allows users to spend more time on other activities
- Increased requirements for staff, such as ability to write Ansible related code forces the company to seek new candidates.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Patching and modifying files automatically save time, thus, improving performance and productivity.
- Eradicate manual workflow when deploying and creating applications through automation.
- Simple learning curve and less need for third-party service providers.
June 06, 2023
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a One Stop for Creating, Executing and Managing Automations.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers automation and ML tools that allow me to automate complex IT tasks.
- Through automation analytics, it is seamless to gain full visibility into automation performance allowing me to make informed decisions.
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform allows me to move rapidly from insights to action.
- Creating and sharing automation content in one place unify a team in one place hence enhancing real-time collaboration.
June 05, 2023
YAML is my Love Language.
- Automatic VIP creation saves roughly 900 hours per year and turns a one-week SLA into near-instant completion.
- Firewall Policy Automation has the potential to save 1300 hours annually and change a 3-day SLA to same-day turnaround and eventually near instant.
- Data gathering for common requests saves hours of manual effort every day.
June 01, 2023
Ansible Review
- performance
- cost
- realibility
May 25, 2023
Ansible... It is the way
- Increased efficiency and productivity: By automating manual and repetitive tasks, organizations can achieve significant time savings and improve overall operational efficiency.
- Consistency and compliance: Ansible Automation Platform helps enforce consistent configurations and policy compliance across the infrastructure.
May 24, 2023
Ansible is the Bee's Knees!
- Provides a compelling framework with which to automate service and resource requests.
- Shifts FTE hours away from mundane operational toil to foster more innovation.
- Provides accountability and repeatability to complex workflows.
- Improves efficiency and agility.
- Removes IT as a barrier to more of a trusted service provider.
May 24, 2023
Time-Saving Ansible.
- Reduce server builds from days to hours.
- Reduced server configuration migration.
May 24, 2023
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for Patching
- Low cost patching management
- Improved configs... noticed less issues in network
- Saved a ton of time automating practices
May 24, 2023
Ansible.
- Increased productivity.
- Decreased downtime for maintenance.
- Increased consistent, repeatable operations.
May 24, 2023
Automate This
- increases consistency
- reduces downtime from human error
- improves documentation
May 24, 2023
Somewhat clueless on other products
- reduced builds by 30%
- increased development efficiency
- easily shareable
May 24, 2023
AAP for OS and Image Management
- Reduced Operational Support Costs
- Reduced Number of Tools Required
- helps us to ensure compliance on multiple clouds and OS's
- help us to automate repeated tasks
- helps us to automate against non-standard VM's that were not "onboarded"
May 24, 2023
Ansible Automation Platform works everytime
- We have been able to reduce the errors in deploying services.
- WE have been able to reduce the time to configure new servers
May 24, 2023
AAP review of a service provider
- Save on time doing manual tasks
- Less time wasted for manual work
- Not much training required to get started
- Huge impact for our customers
- Much less time taken during patch management.
- If there are any issues, the playbook fails and we have to restart from the beginning.
May 24, 2023
Awesome Ansible
- Shorted time to deploy servers
- Shorted DR failover RTO
- Standardized systems with configuration management