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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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May 24, 2023

Review.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospitality Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well-suited for large organizations with many disparate teams who would all like to use the platform for automation orchestration.
May 23, 2023

Not owner, but happy user !

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Computer & Network Security Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited in enviroments where there is a lot interaction with API. Its not well suited for working with multiple users or playbooks where there are lot of variables included. It can see the benefits where there are dislocated environments with low bandwidth. Use of hop nodes are really beneficial in combination of isolated nodes.
November 29, 2022

Automate boring tasks

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's most useful if you often need to deploy machines that have exactly same configuration and pre-installed programs. It's also easy to make changes into them if needed, in best case you can just run one command and the change can be executed into multiple machines thanks to roles. However it seems to be mostly intended for Linux machines.
July 14, 2021

Simple and elegant way to write infrastructure as code

Verified User
Team Lead in Other
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is well suited to system administration tasks and idem potent configuration. Ansible provides a lot of flexibility and power in automating repeated tasks. It is easy to read and write the code and it makes management simple. It provides us with infrastructure as code so we can easily manage systems and services. We use Ansible Tower to manage access to playbooks for the team.

April 27, 2021

Ansible VS Chef VS Puppet VS SaltStack

Verified User
Professional in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Ansible is extremely well suited for full stack configuration management. It is much easier to use against providers like AWS or OpenStack than its counterparts, it works on network devices due to using SSH, and it pairs well with CI systems to keep your repo validated. Ansible is not the fastest kid on the block as far as deployments and task-level execution go. If speed is paramount with your configuration management solution then an agent-based solution is probably the way to go.
February 12, 2021

IT Automation Made Easy, don't get left behind!

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
That is a big task for all the functionality now in Ansible Collections - Ethernet Networking, Fibre Channel Networking, Wireless networking, LB/ADC configuration & changes. Storage config and changes, VMware provisioning and changes, Windows Desktop provision when paired w/ a tool like Zuul, Workflow integration w/ ServiceNow (SNOW), Testing framework such as Molecule really all you to ensure what you have in your playbooks is solid...prior to deployment not when released to your consumers; Critical. Consistent runbooks instead of managing tons of scripts allows for cross-team training and functionality in a true disaster scenario. Additionally, conversion tools from other IT automation offerings Puppet and Chef, integration into Cloud environments. The list grows daily so jump in the water is just right!
January 29, 2020

Ansible - simple and powerful configuration management

Chris Saenz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Chris Saenz
Lead System Engineer
Azusa Pacific University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Ansible works well when managing a large number of devices and servers. It helps to standardize builds and automate provisioning of servers and software so that builds are done quickly and repeatably. It works well for SSH-based hosts and standard unix-like systems. It also works well for system administrators who may not have a strong background in scripting and automation. It is a simple and readable language and a playbook is easy to pass along a team and collaborate on.
December 27, 2019

Ansible makes my job easy

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Users can get up to speed and productive quickly with the tool. Ansible Galaxy portal serves as the central repository for finding, reusing, and sharing Ansible content. Agentless and troubleshooting are easier.
May 28, 2019

Manage your servers with the least effort.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If your company is using cloud services like either Amazon Web Service or Google Cloud Platform, you will have time to implements lots of servers and managing them can be a pain. Ansible can be the help that enables you to manage all the config files you have for your servers and executes them in seconds.
May 16, 2019

Ansible: a great way to get started with automated deployments

John Reeve | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Reeve
Co-founder, lead developer
Intervals (Internet, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Ansible is very well suited for smaller development and production environments where Chef or Puppet seems like overkill. Or, to anyone who needs to document their server configuration. I'd recommend it to anyone considering alternative solutions for that same reason. And the fact that it runs over SSH makes it really easy to set up and run, which also makes it a good choice for those working in smaller environments.
March 27, 2019

Ansible-- Chef has been outcooked

Dylan Cauwels | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dylan Cauwels
DevOps Engineer
CBRE (Real Estate, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for automating groups of servers and ensuring updates are pushed to all of them (simultaneously if needed). It's hard to manage large groups of servers, and this tool makes it almost too simple. If there is only one server that is unique from the others, Ansible will not be as useful, but can still help track your changes.
February 06, 2019

Ansible makes deployments convenient and consistent

John Grosjean | TrustRadius Reviewer
John Grosjean
DevOps Engineer
Avizia (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend Ansible to anyone, but I recognize it might not fit everyone's needs. I'm not as familiar with Chef, Puppet, or Salt, but they each have their strengths. For us, we needed to be able to manage a new server the moment it was created, so agent-based solutions were out. For our use, Ansible does everything we've asked it to.
January 29, 2019

Ansible is great for quick deployment

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have an environment in which you just want to push out VM's or containers very rapidly and don't need them to stay in a current state, then ansible is perfect for that use case. If you want an environment where you push out the code and the system ensures the VM/container remains in that state, Ansible is not really the solution; there are better options.
November 28, 2018

Ansible Now!

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Ansible did a great job helping us patch simple security vulnerabilities on many servers. The code for the fix were no more than about 100 lines. We patched each vulnerability in about 10 minutes. We patched both the HeartBleed/OpenSSH along with the Shellshock Bash vulnerability on 200+ servers in a few days.
May 25, 2018

Ansible is simple and powerful

Edward Larkey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Edward Larkey
Site Reliability Engineer
Hudl (Sports, 501-1000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I would 100% recommend Ansible over Chef or other config management systems. Ansible is easy to get started with, has powerful modules, the community provided playbooks, and requires no client package. Great for large-scale deployments and single node apps alike.
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