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 |
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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
- For example, when we want to do a deployment of a new software agent or a new piece of code it also helps us to offload tasks to junior team members to where we can just put a series of complicated steps into a playbook and hand it off to an operator level person to coordinate and deploy. Like if it requires an outage or something, they just can focus on coordinating a schedule for doing it, but not on the technical aspects of the task.
- I saw a demo this morning during the keynote where they talked about using natural language and basically having the playbook write itself. I thought that was awesome and I thought that that's one of the biggest hurdles to being able to leverage Ansible is to learn its syntax. And it can be very picky about the syntax and spacing when you're writing a playbook. So I would say if it wasn't so picky, it would be easier to pick up and learn.
June 09, 2023
If you use Ansible you should use Red Hat AAP
- Automation
- Configuration Integrity
- Job detail refresh in web interface
- UI improvements (a bit clunky)
June 09, 2023
Use Ansible to automate application validations
- Easily create the scheduled or on-demand validation jobs
- Ansible jobs could be run by other users via granting the proper privilege
- No agent required on the hosting server
- More flow control functionality in Ansible Job Flow
- Better IDE
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Cloud infrastructure automation saves time and finances.
- Ansible allows me to connect with teams and deliver efficiencies for my agency when automating apps procedures.
- It combines hybrid cloud, edge, network and security automation in one place.
- Enterprise tower is way too expensive but the impacts that we get is remarkable.
June 06, 2023
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as the essential building block in the enterprise automation ecosystem
- Distributed deployment options
- RBAC
- Identity providers options
- UI has always been a problem and a cause of the users complaints. Specifically the option of following the job output.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Makes it easy to create and share automation in one central hub.
- Ansible content collections give me the ability to reuse code, making it rapid to carry out complex IT processes.
- Event-driven automation allows me to reduce manual tasks: it is rapid to know which action to take and respond automatically by receiving events from external apps automatically.
- The price is a bit high.
- Lack of mobile apps for iOS and Android.
- Complexity in third-party service integration.
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
- It allows me to automate IT actions through user-defined and rule-based constructs.
- Manage inventory automatically.
- Boost collaboration of teams in one place.
- Eradicate human errors by getting rid of manual tasks.
- It was a bit complex to integrate with other external applications during the initial stage.
June 05, 2023
YAML is my Love Language.
- Automation for every platform due to agentless architecture.
- Easy adoption due to human readable code and simple-to-use GUI.
- Great API that can be called from ServiceNow forms, Pipelines, GitHub Webhooks, or anywhere else.
- A secure vault that is customizable and can plug into systems like Hashicorp or CyberArk to pull updated credentials in real-time when a job runs.
- Workflows should have more flexible paths than just success or failure.
- The upgrade process can be challenging with differences in security and environment.
- There is an opportunity to add CICD functionality into the tool.
- For development, it would be nice to have the option of editing a repo directly from AAP to allow quick tests/reruns. Then, allow it to push the updates back or create a new branch/PR in GitHub.
- The RBAC is good but could use improvements. One example would be an option that allows admins to assume the access of another user to validate it works as expected.
June 01, 2023
Ansible Review
- OS patching
- server build
- Configration management
- sameple playbooks from Red Hat community
- Pricing
- more focus for windows
May 25, 2023
Ansible... It is the way
- Configuration management at scale
- Infrastructure as code
- Cross-platform and cross-environment compatibility
- Managing systems off corporate network; i.e. company provided equipment.
- Think windows MDM... how do we manage systems off of corporate network.
May 24, 2023
Ansible is the Bee's Knees!
- Managing configuration of newly provisioned resources.
- Managing configuration drift for long lifecycle workloads.
- Removes logic coding in favor of low-code declarative definition files.
- Little to no governance around provisioning limits, leases, approvals, etc.
- Needs loosely coupled provisioning intent rather than hard-coded rules.
- Could benefit from graphical/visual app stack designer.
May 24, 2023
Time-Saving Ansible.
- Configuration control.
- Build configuration.
- Security compliance.
- Price.
- Getting too complex.
May 24, 2023
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for Patching
- Patching
- Software Deployment
- Change across the board in no time
- Documentation
- Ease of integration with other products such as VMware
- Deploying templates
- Manage templates
- I like the platform
- The UI has to be refreshed when jobs are running otherwise the logs aren't followed
May 24, 2023
Ansible.
- Run Jobs.
- Maintenance
- Workflow.
- Tower functionality.
- Error output.
- Code spacing.
May 24, 2023
Automate This
- easy to read and understand code
- essentially documents the environment
- doesn't require an agent
- inventory in AAP
- blue green deployments from AAP
- documentation has a lot of room for improvement
May 24, 2023
Somewhat clueless on other products
- deploys apps consistently
- allows for scheduling jobs
- allows for automation
- prefer not to have to use an account
- needs to have an agent
- perform automare logging
May 24, 2023
AAP for OS and Image Management
- Managing configuration drift
- Playbook Formatting
- Inventory/Variable Management (hierarchy)
- Please re-add the running job ids to the browser tabs
- Tracking multiple jobs running the same wf/job template
- Github integration using projects to tie code versions to templates
- running the same automation code across one to many hosts
- being able to automate almost anything, running powershell, terraform, python inside of Ansible plays.
- Job template workflow decisions to do more than failed/success/all
- RBAC for users, teams and orgs sometimes has differences in access roles.
- better error handling/retries on connection problems, which typically force fail a play before code can execute
May 24, 2023
Ansible Automation Platform works everytime
- Makes change configuration repeatable and consistant
- Allows scheduled automation
- Allows separation of duties and roles
- Better integration with Automation Hub. It almost appears they're two separate products.
- The ability to see the details of the individual processes within a workflow job
May 24, 2023
Red Hat legacy
- Successful builds
- Accelerate machine builds
- Reduce workloads
- Playbook crashes with little info
- Tab views and back are tedious
May 24, 2023
AAP review of a service provider
- Stateful Knowledge of network
- Parsing text
- Integrating different platforms such as ITSM
- Easy to learn
- Enables GitOps
- More productivity due to time saved by automation
- Inventory definition not intuitive
- Easy to create and manage YAML cook books
- Agentless execution
- Improved VS Code plugins
- Desired state
- Connectivity with other platforms
- VM provisioning
- Sometimes when SSH is not possible, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform will not run. It would be nice if there were other connection methods.
- Playbook writing.
- Not optimized out-of-the-box. Would be nice if the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform installer detected and customized the installation for the system the playbook is hosted on.