Ansible

“The ability to predict and show historic cost savings from automation for any and all job types is critical for project planning and cost estimation.”

“Frequently, my clients would rather spend budget dollars on professional services for playbooks than ease their way into the Ansible Automation Platform.”

“Since the standard ansible implementation is free, it makes ansible a fine tool with great return on investment.”

“The product is very expensive to use, so we might look for a cheaper solution for our non-production servers.
One of the solution we are looking, is AWX, free, and similar to AAP.
This is be...”

“I prefer it to be cheaper; the consulting hours in my country are not cheap. … And it's not the price I pay for the consultancy.”

“We plan to automate the VM customizations using it, like copying custom apps into /opt, performing Zabbix registration, Mounting AWS Netapp ONTAP FSX volumes, etc automatically.
Possibly we'll...”

“Excellent ROI, in that it's free and easy to set up.”

“Easy to use, and quick to be installed, customers can get real value in the first weeks of usage, depending on the professional services provided and training, so the customer can benefit from the...”

“This allows management to see 'real-world' time (aka) cost savings automation has provided A direct negative can be the time required to create the time savings AAP provides an easy enough UI for...”

“As playbooks can easily be written in YAML/JSON and with Modules available, it does save time which gives savings on cost.”

“But for an enterprise deployment, we had to budget for extra nodes as Tower only comes with licenses for 10.”