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Ably vs Ansible on CentOS 10 comparison

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Ably
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
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Ansible on CentOS 10
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
361st
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
13
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Featured Reviews

Uday Nagpure  - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at Zensar Technologies
Reduced manual work and built reliable real-time collaboration with serverless messaging
I love Ably for its advanced pub/sub messaging capabilities, which help us with messaging Delta Compression, allowing us to send only changes from previous messages instead of entire payloads every time. For example, if I have to say 'hi', instead of sending the whole payload, it only sends the change in the current payload, reducing bandwidth consumption and enabling high-frequency data streaming. This major change has made our clients really happy as they receive notifications and messages without latency. Additionally, if a client goes offline, Ably stores messages in history for up to 72 hours, allowing clients to query history and catch up on missed events, ensuring complete stream continuity. It also supports multi-protocol, using WebSockets and gracefully falling back to server-sent events and long polling as needed, including support for MQTT and IoT devices along with pub/sub control for easy migration.I appreciate the serverless integration that has the integrated native web hook, instantly triggering serverless functions such as AWS Lambda and Azure Function when specific real-time events occur. It also allows Kafka Connector for seamless ingestion of messages from Kafka topics to stream them out to millions of users in milliseconds.
Rahul Kakarla - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
Automation has streamlined server setup and has ensured consistent configurations
One of the best features Ansible on CentOS 10 offers is agentless automation. I particularly appreciate playbooks, which is one of my favorite features, along with configuration management and reusable roles. Agentless automation and playbooks stand out for me because they enable me to manage remote servers over SSH without requiring an Ansible agent on each machine. Playbooks use simple YAML files to automate tasks such as installing packages, configuring JINX, and managing services seamlessly. The error handling and reporting in Ansible on CentOS 10 help identify failed tasks and troubleshoot deployment issues more easily. Ansible on CentOS 10 has strong security capabilities for infrastructure automation, including SSH-based access, privilege escalation controls, and Ansible Vault for encrypting sensitive data, which I believe is excellent for AI-assisted automation. Ansible on CentOS 10 integrates well with AWS services, particularly EC2 for server provisioning and configuration.

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Pros

"Ably has a big capacity to stream data all over the world, has higher reliability and a 99.99% uptime, offers robust security guarantees and ease of integration, and saved at least 80% of the cost that would have required more developers and more time for integration testing and development."
"Ably has positively impacted our organization by providing a good return on investment by avoiding the labor cost of building and maintaining a custom WebSocket server."
"Ably's API integration is intuitive; it definitely improved our efficiency, and we saw faster user interaction and around a 20% reduction in latency during peak times, which improved user experience as well."
"Ably has improved our organization by enhancing real-time communication capabilities and providing reliable data delivery."
"My most-liked feature is its highly reliable real-time messaging capacity."
"We experience vast improvements across many areas with Ably; when users connect bank accounts, we previously had to poll repeatedly, which is now replaced by Ably's real-time infrastructure that maintains a persistent back-end connection, significantly reducing the need for infrastructure management and API load, resulting in average bank connection display times decreasing from eight to twelve seconds down to one to two seconds, and with persistent back-end connections reducing API calls, we achieve a lower operational load, seeing an impressive reduction of thirty thousand to forty thousand calls monthly."
"Ansible on CentOS 10 is a very powerful product for deploying configurations, product installations, or actions on different machines at the same time, and Ansible Tower complements it by adding the ability to create sequential action flows via Ansible on CentOS 10."
"Event Driven Automation (EDA) is the most valuable feature."
"Patching used to be an entire weekend activity before, and now it takes less than an hour to complete."
"Ansible on CentOS 10 has saved a considerable amount of time and effort for me and my team, as a job that used to be done by ten admins can now be done by only one admin."
"The main feature of Ansible on CentOS 10 is idempotency when using the Ansible built-in modules, which is excellent."
"Ansible on CentOS 10 has made that process significantly easier and has completely replaced those previous methods."
"The self-sufficient built-in modules are extremely beneficial."
"The agentless feature of Ansible on CentOS 10 has helped my team save time and avoid specific issues compared to other tools that require agents."
 

Cons

"Overall, Ably appears strong for managed real-time operations, but could improve areas such as pricing predictability."
"Ably can be improved in several areas."
"It falls just short of a perfect ten only because full twenty-four-hour phone or live chat escalation is heavily gated behind their highest enterprise pricing tiers."
"I gave Ansible on CentOS 10 a rating of seven because I would like to see improvements and latest features incorporated."
"Although Ansible on CentOS 10 is a very robust tool, there are still things I would like to see improved."
"One of the main areas that Ansible on CentOS 10 could improve is providing clearer error messages, faster execution across larger environments, and simpler debugging for complex playbooks."
"Community support needs some improvements since not all of the data is available."
"Regarding how Ansible on CentOS 10 can be improved, I think further integration with other tools would be beneficial."
"I have experienced stability issues."
"Ansible on CentOS 10 can be improved by focusing on enhancing automation, efficiencies, and security for better infrastructure management."
"In my opinion, Ansible on CentOS 10 could be improved in the simulation part."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
27%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Consumer Goods Company
6%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise9
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Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Ably?
For the use I have made, I didn't see any limit or margin to implement to go higher.
What is your primary use case for Ably?
My main use case for Ably is integrating the Kafka queue with Ably and sending notifications to IoT devices like a smartwatch. After the topic was reached by the message, Ably can fetch it from thi...
What advice do you have for others considering Ably?
I would recommend trying Ably if you have a wider range of IoT device types to deliver notifications. I gave this review a rating of 9.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Ansible on CentOS 10?
Ansible Core is open-source and does not require a separate software license. The metering and billing experience with Ansible on CentOS 10 is straightforward because Ansible Core is open-source an...
What needs improvement with Ansible on CentOS 10?
One of the main areas that Ansible on CentOS 10 could improve is providing clearer error messages, faster execution across larger environments, and simpler debugging for complex playbooks. For exam...
What is your primary use case for Ansible on CentOS 10?
My main use case for Ansible on CentOS 10 is automating server configuration, software installation, and routine system administration. I use Ansible playbooks to install and configure JINX, manage...
 

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