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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10
Category
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
8.1 /10

What is Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

Red Hat® Ansible® Automation is automation software powered by Red Hat Ansible Engine—an execution engine with hundreds of modules that can automate all aspects of IT environments and processes—and Red Hat Ansible Tower—a management interface that can integrate with other services.

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Awards & Recognition

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform won the following awards in the Data Center Automation category

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

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97 Plan to Renew

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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:
83%
Negotiation and Contract:
77%
Conflict Resolution:
86%
Strategy & Innovation:
81%
Service Experience:
85%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+83 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

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5% Negative
13% Neutral
82% Positive

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Acts with Integrity

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Process Automation

86

Application Provisioning

84

Server Provisioning

83

Backup

83

Compliance Monitoring

82

Task Monitoring

82

Task Scheduling

82

Patching Automation

81

Remediation

81

Server Configuration Monitoring

80

Multi-Site Functionality

80

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

84

Ease of Customization

83

Ease of IT Administration

83

Vendor Support

83

Quality of Features

83

Ease of Implementation

82

Ease of Data Integration

81

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Breadth of Features

80

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

79

Availability and Quality of Training

78

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Reviews

Marian C.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2023

Excellent tool for infrastructure automation

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform from other similar products?

I find it attractive to grant management authority flexibly depending on the members' skills. We give read and configuration change permission according to our understanding of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Also, for members of other teams, authority is managed so that they cannot reference the workflow template created by their team. In addition, it is a simple and easy-to-understand system that can easily create workflow and job templates.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Simple configurations can be made using a configuration file in YAML format. Readability is guaranteed when checking the contents of the design created by others, so there are few problems later. The high extensibility of functions using the Ansible Galaxy library is attractive. While a certain amount of learning costs are required, a properly prepared environment with Ansible reduces stress on infrastructure engineers. It can be expected to reduce costs and improve speed in all aspects, such as operation, administration and development. Consider starting with automation.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Although the documentation is extensive, there are some areas where detailed explanations are lacking, and many sites are difficult to understand unless you learn them yourself. I believe that more people will be able to understand the appeal of Ansible if the explanations for beginners and usage examples based on actual practices are enriched.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

One of the most noticeable effects was the significant reduction in work time. I was able to reduce labor time by approximately 2 hours per day. We will continue to promote automation in other products so that we can expect greater efficiency. The exact configuration can be applied to multiple servers, reducing administration costs from a few small servers to over a thousand servers. By automating provisioning, the number of person-hours developers require to configure the development environment can be reduced, which is expected to reduce development costs and improve development speed.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Thomas D.

  • Role: Finance
  • Industry: Electronics
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Consistently assisting us in managing complex data

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform from other similar products?

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform serves as the cornerstone for developing and managing automation services at scale and offers our business a flexible, dependable execution environment. Now we do not need to create a playbook for each and every repository because we may make use of the same playbook for numerous components using this superior technology.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I really appreciate that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a player at automating tedious tasks and handling platform-specific problems. I can quickly create automatic build scripts for the Red Hat Ansible Automation system that takes care of a range of tasks for me since it is more. capable and intelligent enough to do so. If I plan ahead and properly construct its script, it easily fulfills the responsibilities I assign it.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It will take some time for a new Red Hat Ansible user to become completely familiar with this software. It is a bit tricky to use if you are using it on a Windows workstation. Passing run-time arguments in Red Hat Ansible is quite challenging. Having too many modules might occasionally be confusing, but having excellent documentation may fix this problem.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The fact that Red Hat Ansible is so simple to use is what always forced me to only recommend this platform to my partners who are considering implementing a data center automation platform. Once you use it, you won't need to worry about data center security and can just write scripts to automate all of your chores rather than doing them on your own.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy

Janet M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Automation and configuration in one place.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform from other similar products?

Previously, I used putty for remote connections, then I used "scp" or "ftp" to send the scripts, which I then manually executed. However, ansible made it simple by allowing us to build a yml file, describe all of the tasks in the yml file, and verify as much remote machine characteristics as possible in the host file. When compared to power shell, it is more easier to operate. It is possible to install the same item on several computers.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

With Red Hat Ansible Automation, we can do several tasks on multiple machines at the same time, and prepping machines for testing has never been easier. No more work is necessary. It only takes a few lines of code to get it to function. Ansible can deliver commands to 500 servers at once using SSH. You may also share your code with other teams at any moment, including during deployments.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I'm happy with the tool so far, but for Windows it has to work to add additional features. Mainly this, with the other functions I am satisfied.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It turned out to be a very useful tool as they were able to drop a number of products and start using Ansible for just about everything, including cloud and on-premises infrastructure. The benefits of using Ansible automation is that once we see how simple it is to manage and configure, it becomes incredibly simple for our subsequent deployments. It is less complicated than other automation tools on the market.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Unique Features
  • Efficient Service

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