Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

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Works at Huawei Technologies

May 27, 2018

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Role-based access control and agentless architecture are the main features, but the cost is high

Pros and Cons

"Role-based access control and agentless architecture are the main features which may attract users."
"Ansible Tower provides a GUI, which is an enhancement, and a well-liked feature by operation teams."

What is our primary use case?

1600 host environment, which is mainly used for software updates. As a production environment, it is used for security compliance.

How has it helped my organization?

We are still implementing it. I have used it in a very small environment (10 hosts), and it performed well.

What is most valuable?

Role-based access control and agentless architecture are the main features which may attract users. It is also easy to learn.

Ansible Tower provides a GUI, which is an enhancement, and a well-liked feature by operation teams.

For how long have I used the solution?

Still implementing.

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What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost is high but it sill works well.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

Keith Rhea

Security Engineer at MindPoint Group, LLC

Oct 22, 2018

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It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time

Pros and Cons

"It was easy to read and learn. It is a YAML-based syntax, which makes it easily understand and pick up."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."

"The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional."

What is our primary use case?

Our primary use case is automating security compliance tasks.

It has met our expectations. Automating security compliance tasks is what drew us towards the product initially. It definitely checked the boxes for what we needed to be able to implement.

How has it helped my organization?

It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time.

What is most valuable?

It was easy to read and learn. It is a YAML-based syntax, which makes it easily understand and pick up.

What needs improvement?

The user interface on the Ansible Tower product could be better, but it is functional.

For how long have I used the solution?

One to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable. Being community supported, obviously anytime there are issues, they are spelled out and resolved pretty quickly.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It should meet our needs going forward. We use it in a number of different environments which range anywhere from a handful of servers all the way up to thousands of servers. It has performed and scaled well for everything that we have done.

How is customer service and technical support?

We are a partner with Red Hat. On the Ansible Lockdown project, we interact with them a lot, though not necessarily the tech support. We interact frequently with the product managers and those types of people.

We also work through the community.