We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's user-friendly."
"It's easy to use."
"It's easy to use and the fact that I can schedule the report to come to my inbox at set times is very convenient for me."
"It's quite easy to use, and it's easy to find the necessary information from the web."
"The solution includes a very stable VPN and IPS."
"FortiGate Cloud's key features are the user interface and ease of access."
"It covers all needs of our customers and works well. It is also easy to deploy and troubleshoot."
"The ability to manage everything from the cloud is going to be the most valuable by far with this solution."
"We can automate a few host configurations using the product."
"I like the inventory management. It's a very nice, simple, concise way to keep all that data together. And the API allows us to use it even for things that are not Ansible."
"Some colleagues and other companies use it and comment that it is easy to use, easy to understand, and offers good features."
"The Organizations feature, where I can give clear silos and hand them over to different teams, that's amazing; everybody says that it's their own Tower. It's like they have their own Tower out there."
"The automation manager is very good."
"The initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete."
"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."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"The capacity to execute the solution needs to be improved. I would like to see management and analytics included in the solution."
"They're still trying to digest that Meru acquisition and need a plan."
"When we're upgrading, it's sometimes quite challenging, especially firmware. We usually don't upgrade unless we have a bug, and we still feel it's not safe to react instead of being proactive. We often have some delays when updating FortiGuard, too."
"Currently with the solution, if you want to manage more than one FortiGate you have to use a VM, and a VM can control up to 10."
"ACL is an area with shortcomings that needs to be improved."
"The solution should include a commit button that allows for review of changes and deployments before they are submitted."
"Fortinet could improve FortiGate Cloud by providing better integration with third-party applications and features."
"The product is not recommended on the basis of technical parameters. It is very tough to authenticate."
"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."
"In Community, there's a lot of effort towards testing, standardizing, and testing for module development to role development, which is why Molecule is now becoming real. Same thing with Zuul, which we are starting to implement. Zulu tests out modules from third-party sources, like ourselves, and verifies that the modules work before they are committed to the code. Currently, Ansible can't do this with all the modules out there."
"One problem that I'm facing right now is the mismatch between the new version of Python and Ansible. Sometimes it's Python 2, and sometimes it's Python 3. When things get a bit dicey, I wish that Ansible would solve this issue by itself. I don't want to have to specify if it is Python 3 or version 2."
"The solution is slightly expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"Networking needs to be improved."
"The tool should allow us to create infrastructure. It has everything when it comes to management, but it lacks the provisioning aspect."
"The solution requires some Linux knowledge."
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
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Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Skybox Security Suite, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune. See our Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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