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Get things done in no time
April 06, 2017

Get things done in no time

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Ansible

Widely used in the organization from IT to dev. It is mainly addressing not very large clusters of servers avoiding repetitive tasks and handling workflows. Use cases:
- Cloud Services Orchestration
- Cloud Instances Configuration Management
- Continuous Application Deployment
  • Ease of use due to its simple, human-readable language (YAML)
  • Lot of built-in modules (batteries included)
  • Secure Connection (SSH)
  • No remote agent installation needed (all done over SSH)
  • The docs are great
  • Uses Python, which is built into Linux
  • Basic support for Windows
  • Underdeveloped GUI with limited features
  • Very positive given the fact it's free and helps me to adapt to new environments very fast and easily
  • Fabric and Puppet
[it's] simple, straight forward, easy to set up and get started with. It's very well suited for automatic server provisioning. It might not perform as well as more mature solutions (Chef, Puppet, etc.) for very large environments with thousands of servers. But it will outperform in a dynamic phase environment where speed is critical.