Ansible Automation Platform works everytime
May 24, 2023

Ansible Automation Platform works everytime

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Enterprise

Modules Used

  • Ansible Tower

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

We currently use Ansible Automation Platform to deploy Java Springboot services onto RHEL. We recently began to use it to make changes to our Citrix Netscaler. There is a requirement that a change be made to a load balanced virtual server twice a day, once at 7am and once at 7pm. We wrote a playbook and scheduled it to keep a person from having to be available 7 days a week to make a simple change. Since then that group has begun to develop other playbooks to be able to create the entities on the Netscaler instead of creating them manually 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
  • The ability to ensure consistent changes
  • The ability to schedule jobs
  • We have been able to reduce the errors in deploying services.
  • WE have been able to reduce the time to configure new servers
We have not used or evaluated anything else.

Do you think Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's feature set?

Yes

Did Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform again?

Yes

It is very good at working with any Linux system as well as many of the major products on the market. It's hard to work with Microsoft because of the many prerequisites needed on Windows servers. It can also be difficult to work with out of the box with systems that might require extra dependencies that need to be added to an Execution Environment to interact with.