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Quick, Fast, and Easy
March 06, 2017

Quick, Fast, and Easy

Russ Taylor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Ansible

Ansible is being used mainly for maintaining and managing a small group of servers. It's not being used across the organization (like managing our entire fleet), but rather for simpler tasks, since it has an extremely low overhead and is easy to set up for one-off tasks. It's also useful for maintaining individuals' laptops where desired.
  • Simple, low-overhead configuration and management for servers or laptops.
  • Easy to configure and set up, yet powerful in its configuration options.
  • Excellent documentation for the options available.
  • A simpler way to keep a large number of hosts under management and ensure that they are kept in sync.
  • Improved speed. Some runs can be fairly slow.
  • Excellent ROI, in that it's free and easy to set up.
  • Chef and Puppet
Ansible is better for one-off tasks or quick configuration than, say, Chef or Puppet. It may not perform as well in managing large fleets with hundreds or thousands of servers but performs excellently for smaller fleets. I've been using it especially in maintaining my own laptop and a personal web server, where it excels.
Simple, efficient management of hosts. Easy-to-maintain configuration files, with lots of flexibility in the way you can keep those files in code management. It's especially useful for smaller fleets or for one-off runs. Perhaps not as effective in maintaining large fleets of servers, especially when you need to keep all the hosts in-sync.