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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation [EOL] vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Automic Continuous Delivery...
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat Ansible Automation ...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (3rd), Configuration Management (1st), Network Automation (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user779229 - PeerSpot reviewer
Reduces our time to market considerably with automated and consistent results
Our most important criteria when selecting a vendor are * the size of the vendor itself * how stable the company is * how long they have been in the market * what product suites they have that can help us achieve our goal at the end of the day. We look for partners, not vendors per se, that can help us implement our vision with us, and that's why we like Automic. I give it a good nine out of 10 at this time. The one piece that I think that could help leverage more of the tool is the scripting language barrier at this time. If that's not there, and some of the pieces that could be delivered faster, it might be adopted more out there in the market. I would suggest look at the complete offering that's out there. I would suggest: Prove it out first with the use case that you have. We were not shy in terms of running some proofs of concept with a couple of big vendors out there, and then making them make the case why their product suits our use case. And don't be shy to restart if there is something that you think is not going right, make sure you fix the problem before it gets too late.
Muralitharan KS - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficient server management and detailed reporting with flexible deployment capabilities
We are primarily using Ansible for automation purposes as it is a configuration management tool. It is utilized for various activities such as DNS activity, changes to web servers, virtual host settings, and other day-to-day tasks, all of which are templated in Ansible Ansible allows us to manage…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I think on a day-to-day basis, it has increased the capacity to deploy. We don't have to wait for someone to do something."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to see which problems have been resolved from deployment."
"The metrics gathered after deployment, for example, the rate of success versus the rate of failure."
"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."
"It can support very complex environments and dependencies."
"The capability to provide visibility to the stakeholders, to management, is the biggest piece that showcases what the solution is about."
"We have saved on our time costs and have seen more quality."
"I would say our headwind, or our time to market, is reduced considerably. We get more consistent results out of it, because you write one time and once it's automated you expect it to behave the same way every time. And it cut down a lot of re-work for us."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform are the agentless platform and writing the code is simple using the Yaml computer language."
"The development tools are decent and being able to consistently manage those servers is really the key, which is why we went with Ansible in the first place."
"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."
"On the network side, I already have a lot of our firewall related processes automated. If it's not automated all the way from the ticket system, our network team members, our tier-one guys in India, can just go into the Tower web interface and fill in a couple of survey questions."
"It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well."
"The solution is capable of integrating with many applications and devices in comparison to BigFix."
"We can manage all the configuration consistency between all our servers."
 

Cons

"I would like to see more support for WebSphere."
"The stability of the solution can be improved."
"One of the biggest features I've been asked by my team to put in there is opening more scripting languages to be part of the platform. There is a little bit of a learning curve in learning how to code some of the workflows in Automic at this time. If widely used languages like Perl and Python were integrated, on top of what's already there, the proprietary language, it would make it easier to on-board new resources."
"GUI for mobile phones: Availability to approve and start deployment through mobile phones."
"We hope that we can integrate the new CD Directive into our portfolio, so we can bring the deployment and release management closer together."
"The dashboard should allow you to see the current state of packages in each environment, not only on an individual application basis, but across the entire application platform."
"Not a perfect ten because the user interface is brand new and it needs improvement."
"If you have a technical problem and need development of the tool, the support team is terrible, because they cannot help with the technical details."
"For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation."
"For Ansible Tower, there are three tiers with ten nodes. I would like them to expand those ten nodes to 20, because ten nodes is not enough to test on."
"They should think of this product as an end-to-end solution and begin to develop it that way."
"In modern infrastructure, there are more than just servers. The initial server-centric approach in Ansible is a bit strange."
"When you set up Playbooks, I may have one version of the Playbook, but another member of the team may have a different vision, and we will not know which version is correct. We want to have one central repository for managing the different versions of Playbooks, so we can have better collaboration among team members. This is our use case for using Git version control."
"The web GUI can be a little bit better. There should be a couple of more features."
"It needs better documentation."
"The product could do a better job at building infrastructure."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We increased our quality and reduced our time costs."
"Customers often complain about the price."
"If you have a fixed contract, it has limits to spreading out. If you have a flexible enterprise license contract, then you have a lot of scalability for this tool."
"I can save time and money more quickly."
"We went with product because we have a subscription for Red Hat."
"It is a little pricey but it is affordable. It is not that bad."
"Everything is generally fair. No one ever likes to pay a lot of money, but we are getting the value. We also get support with it. It has been fair and worthwhile."
"It’s an open-source tool."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an affordable solution."
"Customers need to pay yearly for the license."
"The solution is inexpensive compared to other products."
"Ansible Tower is pretty expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
40%
Computer Software Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Pharma/Biotech Company
4%
Educational Organization
31%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
6%
 

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Also Known As

CA Continuous Delivery Automation, Automic Release Automation, Automic ONE Automation, UC4 Automation Platform
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