Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review
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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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- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has saved the city of Denver over 1.5 million in the past year
May 24, 2023
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- ROI increase due to less contractor usage for short term projects
May 24, 2023
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- No manual Ops on configurations.
May 24, 2023
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- Quicker time-to-deployment of resources.
- Ability to manage configurations of many resources.
May 24, 2023
Automates the workflow.
- Saves time.
- Consistent deployment.
- Automates daily tasks.
May 24, 2023
Automation first!
- reduce amounts of INC
- more then 3000h per month savings last year because of new automations
May 23, 2023
Not owner, but happy user !
- Automated deployment of infrastructure
November 29, 2022
Automate boring tasks
- It helps with setting up customer environments with short notice and with little workforce so it's very cost-efficient.
- There are less mistakes because setting up machines requires little human interaction.
November 03, 2021
Automate the Automation using Ansible
- Faster Setup of Tools & Application
- Easy Management
- More Bandwidth for other improvements
- A huge return on investment
- Makes it easier for system administrators to get up to speed
- Consistent, reusable code
April 27, 2021
Ansible VS Chef VS Puppet VS SaltStack
- It automated processes that used to be performed by hand saving hundreds of hours if not thousands
- It is self documenting when combined with a source control service. People who understand ansible are able to come up to speed relatively quickly.
February 12, 2021
For a free product, Ansible community delivers enterprise returns
- It has sped up Linux patching dramatically.
- Deploying ‘template’ systems (think dev web servers) is a breeze.
- We can now have a more vanilla VMware template and apply all baseline measures via a play.
February 12, 2021
IT Automation Made Easy, don't get left behind!
- Time back to Admin's by reducing MAC (Moves, Adds and Changes)
- Less time patching, more time validating and Architecting
- Less time worrying about Fat Finger events and more focus on other change management issues.
- Greater details for Auditors...Always a bonus
January 29, 2020
Ansible - simple and powerful configuration management
- More efficient management of servers.
- More quickly able to create playbooks to automate tasks.
December 27, 2019
Ansible makes my job easy
- As playbooks can easily be written in YAML/JSON and with Modules available, it does save time which gives savings on cost.
May 28, 2019
Manage your servers with the least effort.
- It makes server managing easier.
- It increases the efficiency of our operation team.
- It helps the whole team be at the same pace.
- It has sped up our deployments considerably.
- It has help developers do more DevOps work.
March 27, 2019
Ansible-- Chef has been outcooked
- Allowed us to manage our large application server groups as if they were a single machine. Gives you a ton of freedom in how you want to set up your instances without worrying about how you're going to manage updates.
- Gave our lower-level developers the possibility to change environment-level qualities that they otherwise would've never understood how to do.
February 06, 2019
Ansible makes deployments convenient and consistent
- Our deployments went to a CI/CD model a while back, and there's no way we could keep up if it wasn't for Ansible. It was convenient when we started using it, but Ansible is now essential for our small DevOps team to keep up with the rest of the business. We keep automating more and more with Ansible, just so that we can stay sane.
January 29, 2019
Ansible is great for quick deployment
- Easy to deploy.
- Ansible is free.
- Helps users deploy clusters.
November 28, 2018
Ansible Now!
- Ansible has definitely helped our security team keep our servers up to date on the latest vulnerabilities through their continuous team of patch deployments.
- The time to market for our code deployments have sped up 3 fold at least and is expected to continue improving as more teams are comfortable with DevOps framework.
- Ansible is open source and free, which is great. But for an enterprise deployment, we had to budget for extra nodes as Tower only comes with licenses for 10.
May 30, 2018
Our experience with Ansible
- Ansible heped us to organize our management process.
May 25, 2018
Ansible is simple and powerful
- Easy concepts allow us to bring new employees up to speed quickly
- Ansible makes adding configuration management to existing servers painless, adding more consistency to deployments quickly
- Writing Ansible playbooks is much quicker to iterate over during development than writing Chef cookbooks.
May 22, 2018
Ansible - great for simple configurations
- Ansible has allowed us to automate the configuration of singleton services like InfluxDB. Previously, the time series database had to be configured by hand which was time-consuming and error-prone.
December 01, 2017
DevOps Swiss Army Knife
- Ansible is a great investment if used for its well-suited scenarios. It has had a positive impact on my clients who used it to modernize their application deployment process. Ansible has 1) increased the reliability of the deployment process and 2) reduced scripts maintenance overhead.
- Since Ansible is simpler and faster to get started with - compared to centralized configuration management solutions - it can be tempting to use it initially for simpler applications/infrastructure that are anticipated to evolve to complex ecosystems, you may find yourself having to rewrite in another tool in such cases.