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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) (26th), Workload Automation (27th)
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 (3rd), 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 1.9%, up 0.6% compared to last year.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Configuration Management, holds 10.1% mindshare, down 16.8% since last year.
Managed File Transfer (MFT) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Flux1.9%
GoAnywhere MFT8.4%
MOVEit6.8%
Other82.9%
Managed File Transfer (MFT)
Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform10.1%
HashiCorp Terraform7.5%
Microsoft Configuration Manager7.3%
Other75.1%
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"
"Instead of spending several days going to each device and ripping out config and putting new config in, I just batched our branches, batched our data center, ran three jobs, and called it a day."
"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."
"Ansible Galaxy is helpful for roles and Git Submodules: No dependency in managing playbooks. Also, fact caching in redis for host/role grp information speeds up execution. Finally, variable management is easy."
"It is quick to production. It has an API in the back which allows for integrations."
"The automation is the most valuable feature."
"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 enabled me to take the old build manifest and automated everything. So when it came time to spin everything up, it was quick and simple. I could spin it up and test it out. And then, when it came time to roll production, it was a done deal. When we expanded to multiple data centers, it was same thing: Change a few IP addresses, change some names, and off we went."
"There are so many models that I don't have to create one."
 

Cons

"It would be nice to have more file transform capabilities for transforming xml and csv documents."
"Need a better way to track a particular work item through multiple, independent workflows."
"They should think of this product as an end-to-end solution and begin to develop it that way."
"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."
"The support could be better."
"What I would like to see is a refined Dashboard to see, when I log in: Here are all my jobs, here are how many times they've executed; some kind graphical stitching-together of the workflows and jobs, and how they're connected. Also, those "failed hosts," what does that mean? We have a problem, a failed host can be anything. Is SSH the reason it failed? Is the job template why it failed? It doesn't really distinguish that."
"It's a young product so there is still room for improvement on the module side."
"The SSM connection access needs improvement"
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"The web GUI can be a little bit better. There should be a couple of more features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is inexpensive compared to other products."
"The pricing is pretty standard."
"The cost is high, but it still works well."
"Ansible is a lot more competitive than any of the others. Its setup was also straightforward. In fact, we just implemented Ansible on OpenShift, so that is how we are running the Ansible Automation Platform now."
"Red Hat's open source approach was a factor when choosing Ansible, since the solution is free as of right now."
"The pricing for us is huge because we use twenty thousand nodes, so that is a huge infrastructure, but if someone is using a small infrastructure, then the pricing is not so much."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an expensive solution. There may be additional fees to use advanced features."
"I am using the community edition of the solution which is free."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business25
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise52
 

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Also Known As

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Ansible, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Subscription on AWS
 

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