Ansible : A way to automate apps and IT infrastructure | TrustRadius

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Ansible is one the best automation tools for deploying an application on remote servers. It helps us avoid repetitive tasks and handles workflows.

Our organization using it mainly for below cases:

Cloud Application Automation
Virtual Machine/Instance configuration and Managment
Automated or Auto Deploy of Cloud supported Application

Pros and Cons

Easy creation of YAML PlayBook (configuration ) file
Easy and fast deployment
Save unnecessary onsite travel cost
Secure SSH connection
Ready to use built in many useful modules
Use Python for modules

Minimal support for Windows
Not so interactive and featured GUI

Return on Investment

Positive impact is mainly on time and cost savings
Main negative impact is faced when an individual needs to troubleshoot an issue but has minimal informational of what is happening at back-end of an auto deploy

Alternatives Considered

For VMware we have used auto Deploy and VMware power CLI to automate the things
For OpenStack based - seat service is used to automate the things using YML template.

Likelihood to Recommend

For a fast auto-deploy of instances where resource elasticity is taking place.
Also to reduce onsite travel costs and deliver projects as soon as possible in case we have a number of servers to be configured to host application services.