Item: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Pablo Szajt

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

1) Building new Linux VMs
2) Patching Linux VMs
3) Standardizing file changes
4) Local password changes
5) Connect with all Linux/Unix servers with the same credential

Pros and Cons

Pros

Use of credentials.
Create Inventories.
Run consistently.
Workfflows

Cons

Better Outputs. Not easy to download the output to do a better review

Return on Investment

Do things faster. Instead of needed a month for manual patching, we need 2 weeks,
Run jobs consistently across my inventory. Less errors means more time to do something else
Check job history in case we need to see how a job worked in the past.
Building a new VM takes 20 mins when before we needed half a day.
My cybersecurity team is happier now as we patch mor frequently
Changing all admin/root passwords takes minutes instead of hours

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is not easy to set up, but once done, it works beautifully. We engaged Red Hat and a partner to help us with the implementation. Creating all the use cases is not 100% done yet, but we are getting pretty close.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

ServiceNow IT Service Management, IDERA Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, VMware vSphere, Tripwire File Integrity Monitoring, Oracle Solaris

Likelihood to Recommend

Automate patching RHEL and build VMS from Satellite. We started using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform less than a year ago. Because of that, we are patching every 3 instead of 6 months. Our patch includes rebooting, taking snapshots, applying the patch, and rebooting again. It works beautifully. I'm not yet confident with patching Solaris 11.4 with LDOMs and named zones.

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