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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5,000
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10,000
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14,000
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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 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 delegate that within, I guess what used to be called Ansible Tower, which is now the Ansible Automation platform. It lets you share, I can give you the keys without you being able to see the keys. It's great.
June 06, 2023
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as the essential building block in the enterprise automation ecosystem
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat OpenShift
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 processes in both the aforementioned cases.
June 01, 2023
Ansible Review
May 25, 2023
Ansible... It is the way
May 24, 2023
Ansible is the Bee's Knees!
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.
May 24, 2023
Time-Saving Ansible.
Ansible is much easier to use and configure than Puppet.
May 24, 2023
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for Patching
We tried other patching software, but it was not as reliable or fast.
It is a great way to standup servers in the cloud which we can finish configs with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
May 24, 2023
Ansible.
Ansible and Terraform are similar; however, Ansible is great with deployment with or without the use of a tower.
May 24, 2023
Automate This
Much easier to use and understand.
May 24, 2023
Somewhat clueless on other products
Works more seamlessly and integrates well with other linux distro
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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.
May 24, 2023
Ansible Automation Platform works everytime
We have not used or evaluated anything else.
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 users should have basic Ruby knowledge.
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 users should have basic Ruby knowledge.
It's the only one.
Different animal. UC4 is used for application automation.
Uipath is the last mile we start from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
May 24, 2023
Ansible review
Ansible was in use when I was hired to the team
May 24, 2023
Automates the workflow.
AAP helps to manage thousand of servers at the same time.
May 23, 2023
Not owner, but happy user !
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 nodes. Pacing them in Podman containers is great benefit.
November 03, 2021
Automate the Automation using Ansible
- Push Based Approach
- Easy to right Code
- Fast Setup & Upgrade
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 as code. Anisble used a push model instead of a pull model like Puppet.
April 27, 2021
Ansible VS Chef VS Puppet VS SaltStack
- Chef, SaltStack and Puppet
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.
February 12, 2021
For a free product, Ansible community delivers enterprise returns
- Puppet Enterprise, Chef and from Progress
My experience with Puppet and Chef is limited, but as a total non-programmer Ansible was just worlds easier for me to implement.