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Flux vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Flux
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Managed File Transfer (MFT) (22nd), Workload Automation (28th)
Red Hat Ansible Automation ...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (3rd), Configuration Management (2nd), Network Automation (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Flux and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Flux is designed for Managed File Transfer (MFT) and holds a mindshare of 2.1%, up 0.5% compared to last year.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Configuration Management, holds 9.8% mindshare, down 16.6% since last year.
Managed File Transfer (MFT) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Flux2.1%
GoAnywhere MFT7.8%
MOVEit6.5%
Other83.6%
Managed File Transfer (MFT)
Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform9.8%
HashiCorp Terraform8.1%
Microsoft Configuration Manager7.2%
Other74.9%
Configuration Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user4080 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Lightweight and extensible with great support staff
* Lightweight * Uses java standards * Can run in j2se or j2ee environments * Can run as embedded or standalone * Works with multiple db or in-memory * Great support staff * Extensible * Cluster(able) * Can integrate and be a major player in any SOA environmentFlux has made excellent design choices the benefits of which can be passed down to customers in terms of price and capability. I don't see any IT vendor rival this.
Manas Kashyap - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Dev Ops Engineer at 11 East Capital
Automation has transformed server patching and has reduced months of work to minutes
The best features that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers is that it does not require any additional resources inside the servers. Python is the only requirement, and since Python is already present inside the servers, we can run it from our location and it automatically deploys things and does the work for us. The minimal requirements and easy deployment have definitely impacted my daily work and my team's efficiency. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is one of the best features that we depend on. We have evaluated other options, but Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform was the best choice because it has saved us a tremendous amount of time. We do not need to manually intervene in the servers or install third-party software to maintain these things. It is very easy to write playbooks for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Ansible Galaxy contains many playbooks that are readily available and ready to be used. It is highly configurable with Jinja templating, making it easy to maintain. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has positively impacted my organization. Previously, we needed to go into the servers and maintain them manually, which used to take a lot of time. For 200 to 300 servers, the maintenance took about one to two months. New patches would arrive and we would have to repeat the process. Now, it is a one-night work or a 10 to 15 minutes task. We write a playbook, maintain an inventory, and roll out the updates and it starts working for us. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform uses conditional clauses and has rollback options, functioning like a standard coding language that is simple to use. There is definitely a reduction in errors with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform because we have playbooks written with all the necessary clauses and rollback options. Manual work automatically creates more errors, whereas in automation, we have written sets that we do not forget every time we run it. We have protected written sets that we execute consistently.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Flux has made excellent design choices the benefits of which can be passed down to customers in terms of price and capability."
"Excellent customer support"
"I like Ansible because it is: Easy to use, easy to read, easy to maintain, easy to support, and it works without an agent."
"It does not require staff for deployment and maintenance. It just works."
"To me, a great thing about Ansible is that it can do everything: cloud, on-prem, Windows, Linux, networking, and I've not seen any other orchestration tool able to do that as easily."
"The most valuable feature is that Ansible is agentless."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is very helpful due to passwordless integration and the ability to interact with multiple servers at once, which is especially advantageous when dealing with thousands of servers."
"It saves time; it cut our configuration time; it is very easy to use, and there is less room for error."
"The solution can scale."
 

Cons

"Need a better way to track a particular work item through multiple, independent workflows."
"It would be nice to have more file transform capabilities for transforming xml and csv documents."
"The solution requires some Linux knowledge."
"At this time, I do not have anything to improve. What we struggle with is the knowledge base, but that is more about us having to go and find it and learn the platform on our own rather than an actual Ansible issue."
"It doesn't work well with large-scale infra."
"There were a few scalability issues. I had no problems as long as the number of servers was less than 500."
"I rate it a seven out of ten because there are a couple of things which I expect from Tower which are not there yet."
"Currently, Ansible can't do this with all the modules out there."
"We would like support for the post-integration of this product before cloud frameworks because right now their approach is to avoid using on-premises activities and move everything to the cloud."
"The solution must be made easier to configure."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The cost is determined by the number of endpoints."
"Ansible Tower is pretty expensive."
"You don't need to buy agents on servers or deploy expense management when using the solution, which affected our decision to go with it."
"We use the open-source version of the solution."
"I don't see the pricing or licensing features, but from what I understand, it is fairly reasonable."
"It’s an open-source tool."
"If you only need to use Ansible, it's free for any end-user, but when you require Ansible Tower, you need to pay per Ansible Tower server."
"The cost is high, but it still works well."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
Construction Company
6%
 

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Small Business25
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise52
 

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Ansible, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Subscription on AWS
 

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