Item: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Matt Millard

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use AAP for our automation of all of our Linux environment and some small pockets of Windows and some applications configurations. We use it for drift management, CIS compliance, provisioning and general help desk tasks by our technicians.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Configuration Drift
Server Provisioning
Compliance remediation for CIS and NIST benchmarks

Cons

Upgrades could be simpler
Creating EEs could be better integrated rather than DIY
Config as Code could be better

Return on Investment

It saves our help desk technicians time
It allows us to do maintenance in an automated fashion and saves time
We have upgraded almost 3000 RHEL7 servers in less than a year with a fully automated process and it has saved us a ton of time.

Usability

AAP is fairly straightforward to use as a user.

Alternatives Considered

Tanium

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

HashiCorp Terraform, CrowdStrike Falcon

Likelihood to Recommend

AAP is great at handling repeatable tasks. It can handle complex multi-step workflows as well. We use it to do upgrades from RHEL7 to RHEL8 in a very complex manner and it handles it very well. At least in our environment using it for Windows management isn't an area where we are focused and it seems less geared towards it.

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AAP is a great tool

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