Item: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps my organization by giving a centralized automation platform. Teams can write their own automation in their own environments, upload it to their repository, and launch it from Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. By having Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, it also forces teams to write Ansible playbooks correctly and follow the correct role structure that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform uses. It addresses the need for a centralized automation platform and a place where automation can be ran. Reducing the number of prod-like environments spun up by various teams to launch their automation.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Centralize the launching of Ansible automation
Centralize the hosting of modules, collections, plugins, etc.
Role-based access for teams and their users
Holding execution environments

Cons

Better documentation on role-based access controls
Adding in builtin repository syncing
Better documentation on launching templates via API call

Return on Investment

More teams are interested in using Ansible to automate because of the platform
No numbers just yet as teams are still getting onboarded and the organization is still young when it comes to automating

Usability

It does take a bit getting used to and setting everything up. Especially role-based access control for teams and users. The documentation isn't all that great for the RBAC and the privileges that you can assign in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, so you would have to be in close contact with an Ansible expert from Red Hat to help. But other than that, it is pretty straightforward, especially if you come from Ansible Tower.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform works great for my organization because it centralizes where Ansible automation is ran from. There is no need to have multiple prod-like environments that would run Ansible automation. Like I mentioned in the previous question, it also helps with organizing the users based on their teams/organizations from Azure AD. There are also multiple ways to deploy Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whether it be via a VM, cluster operator, container, etc. Helps with transferring if the need ever arises.

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