Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review
June 03, 2025

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review

Victor Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

We automate everything, automate all the things, as we say. From patch management to user management, anything to do on the RHEL box, we do it. We use it on Windows, we use it on our F5s, we use it on our network equipment. Just automate everything in our organization.

Pros

  • Automate. If you got to do something once, do it once. If you got to do it twice, automate it with Ansible.

Cons

  • I can't think of any right now because I've heard about the Lightspeed and I'm really excited about that. Ansible has been really solid for us. We haven't had any issues. Maybe the upgrade process, but other than that, as coming from a user, it's awesome.
  • Give out Lightspeed for free.
  • I got all my time back, we have 500 servers, can push a button in Ansible right away without much coding experience in YAML. Just time saved. I don't see any negatives. I don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I kind of am so it's awesome.
The UI, it is Chef's Kiss coming from Command Line Ansible. If you're trying to get people who are not used to command line or new to Linux and they come from a Windows world, the UI is fantastic.
I've evaluated Puppet and Chef and they're not as good as Ansible.

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

I'm going to say it is best suited for configuration management. Like I said, patching even with security, things of that nature. Probably less suited is hardware management, but Red Hat IBM/IBM has Terraform for that. So it's a trade off.

Ansible Feature Ratings

Infrastructure Automation
Not Rated
Automated Provisioning
Not Rated
Parallel Execution
Not Rated
Node Management
Not Rated
Reporting & Logging
Not Rated
Inventory Control
Not Rated
Version Control
Not Rated
Role-based access control
Not Rated

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