We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Devops and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Overall, the two solutions are very comparable. They are both easy to deploy and they both have good features.
"The creation of test plans is valuable and I like the reporting features."
"Azure Pipeline and Azure Release are most valuable. I use Azure DevOps through pipeline and release."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It is possible to add third-party extensions to increase the usability of the product."
"It is a cloud-based system. So, it is stable and scalable."
"Everything that's related to the pipeline has been very good."
"The most valuable features are continuous integration and deployment, and simplicity."
"Most of the features are very valuable for us, especially the source code control and task management."
"The most valuable feature is that Ansible is agentless."
"The initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete."
"The solution is capable of integrating with many applications and devices in comparison to BigFix."
"It has made our infrastructure more testable. We are able to build our infrastructure in CI, then are more confident in what we are deploying will work, not breaking everything."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Ansible Tower provides a GUI, which is an enhancement, and a well-liked feature by operation teams."
"The biggest thing I liked about Ansible is the check mode so that we can verify, after we've pushed, that the config there is actually what we intended."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"The interface is very bad."
"Its testing features are limited and can be improved a little more. They should provide more options from the testing and build perspective. Currently, we have to use a third-party product for testing. It would be great if it has more than one testing tool."
"They could provide clearer guidance on deployment practices for the product."
"It would be great if I could integrate with a human resource type of software that could control timesheets."
"Its UI can be easier and more customer-friendly. The UI can be improved from the project management and agile perspective."
"The price could be lowered. It would be nice if it was cheaper."
"When converting to DevOps, it was difficult to map."
"Microsoft Azure DevOps should create some training materials."
"It would be helpful to have templates for common configurations. It would make it much easier and faster rather than creating a whole script. The templates would decrease the learning curve as well."
"The product could do a better job at building infrastructure."
"The communication on it is not probably where it could be. We could use some real life examples where we could point customers to them and say, "This is what you are trying to do. If you follow these steps, it would at least get you started a bit quicker.""
"It should support more integration with different products."
"There is always room for improvement in features or customer support."
"There could be more stuff in the workflows. I hope that if I have ten templates with different services on it, workflow could auto-populate all the template-based services."
"Some of the modules in Ansible could be a bit more mature. There is still a little room for further development. Some performance aspects could be improved, perhaps in the form of parallelism within Ansible."
"It is a little slow on the network side because every time you call a module, it's initiating an SSH or an API call to a network device, and it just slows things down."
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Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Release Automation with 127 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 3rd in Release Automation with 58 reviews. Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, Rally Software and Asana, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Intune and BMC TrueSight Server Automation. See our Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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