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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as the essential building block in the enterprise automation ecosystem
June 06, 2023

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as the essential building block in the enterprise automation ecosystem

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

Software Version

Enterprise

Modules Used

  • Ansible Tower

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

We use the AAP as a building block in many end-to-end infrastructure and platform related build and deployment processes as well as a foundation for maintaining IaC and CasC principles that we adhere in the organization. The major complaint would be related to fair number of bugs the most of the new releases contain. The regression testing process can be improved at this point. Also, sometimes the bug fixes don’t get backported to the previous minor release, which forces us to perform more frequent upgrades. It impacts the platform availability due to increased number of maintenance windows required to support the product. At this point we always run on N-1 minor release to ensure stability (over new features and bugs that a just released version normally contains). It would be great if all the bug fixes are backported to the previous minor releases.
  • 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.
  • Enterprise class support
  • Relatively low bar for starting automation related activities
  • Integration with other Red Hat products
  • Automation of routine and repetitive tasks allows users to spend more time on other activities
  • Increased requirements for staff, such as ability to write Ansible related code forces the company to seek new candidates.
AAP is a building block in majority of build/deployment and configuration processes that involve the traditional compute (ie. bare metal and VM based) systems running RHEL, as well as the modern platforms to run containerized workloads, such as OpenShift. We use AAP to automate processes in both the aforementioned cases.

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat OpenShift
The product is invaluable in the areas where post infra deployment configuration is required. It is not too suited for infra deployment as it is hard to maintain and remediate the state.