Ansible for PE
May 22, 2025

Ansible for PE

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

We use it for VM creation, VM setup (installing software, configuring users, etc) and for automation of some Kubernetes and OpenShift tasks. VM creation is through interaction with vSphere, producing ubuntu VMs from our ISO file and adding the basic needs for our org. (static IP, hostname, etc). VM setup includes adding users and sudoers, and installing packages through apt. kubernetes setup is applying prewritten yaml

Pros

  • Quick deployment of packages
  • Reaches a large number of machines all at once
  • provides some consistency across machines

Cons

  • Ability to tell when a task has already been done
  • yaml configuration can be annoying at times, perhaps a built in lint so yq isn't needed
  • the become feature should be able to be set to true globally without using args
  • Faster deployment of new resources
  • less downtime for Ephemeral hosts
  • less engineer time spent
It's overall pretty easy to use foe all the applications I've mentioned before: configuring hosts, installing packages through tools like apt, applying yaml, making changes across wide groups of hosts, etc. Its not a 10 because of the inconveinience of the yaml setup, and the time to write is not worth it for something applied one time to only a few hosts

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform again?

Yes

Some scenarios are: mass deployment of the same apt packages across a wide set of virtual machines, repeatable configuration such as for ephemeral infrastructure such as kubernetes hosts, mass user addition, a process that needs to be repeated for each user including writing to the sudoers file. These are probably the main things I've done

Ansible Feature Ratings

Configuration Management
6.5
Infrastructure Automation
Not Rated
Automated Provisioning
8
Parallel Execution
10
Node Management
5
Reporting & Logging
3

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