Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review
February 26, 2024
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
We use it to automate tasks so that things are consistent and across the board, we use it to deploy software, deploy agents, basically automation. Consistency or inconsistency. When we're doing installations or configuration on different boxes, it helps us see problems and differences, inconsistency when we have different staff members doing things differently, it helps us implement a sense of control around that.
- For example, when we want to do a deployment of a new software agent or a new piece of code it also helps us to offload tasks to junior team members to where we can just put a series of complicated steps into a playbook and hand it off to an operator level person to coordinate and deploy. Like if it requires an outage or something, they just can focus on coordinating a schedule for doing it, but not on the technical aspects of the task.
- I saw a demo this morning during the keynote where they talked about using natural language and basically having the playbook write itself. I thought that was awesome and I thought that that's one of the biggest hurdles to being able to leverage Ansible is to learn its syntax. And it can be very picky about the syntax and spacing when you're writing a playbook. So I would say if it wasn't so picky, it would be easier to pick up and learn.
- I'd say positive. It helps us meet our compliance requirements consistently and lets us turn things around faster when we find things that are out of compliance because we normally already, once we develop a playbook, it's there, we pick it back up off the shelf and run the same thing again. We don't have to go through an exercise every time or bring somebody else up to speed. The playbook is already out there and just go run it.
I haven't thought of any right now other than just doing our own home-brewed shell scripts. Command line scripts. And how does this compare? It's light years ahead, especially with the ability to share credentials without giving the person the actual credentials. You can delegate that within, I guess what used to be called Ansible Tower, which is now the Ansible Automation platform. It lets you share, I can give you the keys without you being able to see the keys. It's great.
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