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Octopus Deploy vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 1, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Octopus Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
16th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat Ansible Automation ...
Ranking in Release Automation
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (2nd), Network Automation (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Octopus Deploy is 2.3%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is 5.2%, up from 5.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Release Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform5.2%
Octopus Deploy2.3%
Other92.5%
Release Automation
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2006736 - PeerSpot reviewer
MS Apps Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reasonable price, simple to deploy, and does everything we want
We're a DevOps team., and its use case is deployment. That's the only thing it does. Our version is relatively recent Deployment is valuable. It deploys well. You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there…
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

"This has always been our choice for continuous product development."
"It's a deployment tool; it does one thing, and it does it well."
"Deployment is valuable. It deploys well."
"The rollback feature has been most valuable; we can write scripts from scratch, and Octopus maintains an independent package for every deployment."
"The UI is very intuitive."
"We can manage all the configuration consistency between all our servers."
"Automation is valuable. It saves us time in performing tedious tasks or repetitive tasks."
"Ansible has brought a platform which has allowed us to automate a lot of services, not just server services, but network services as well."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The work that previously took two months now takes 10 to 15 minutes."
"The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"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."
 

Cons

"This solution could be improved by making it easier to divide variables in YAML file or JSON files."
"You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there is complexity."
"There could be scope for more integration with other platforms."
"Some of the Cisco modules could be expanded, which would be great, along with not having to do so much coding in the background to make it work."
"On the Dashboard, when you view a template run, it shows all the output. There is a search filter, but it would be nice to able to select one server in that run and then see all that output from just that one server, instead of having to do the search on that one server and find the results."
"The solution costs a lot. It's not cheap."
"I would like to see improvements in the dashboards. More detailed dashboards would be beneficial because there is a lack of dashboards on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform."
"At this time, I do not have anything to improve. What we struggle with is the knowledge base, but that is more about us having to go and find it and learn the platform on our own rather than an actual Ansible issue."
"The documentation for the installation step of deployment, OpenStack, etc., and these things have to be a bit more detailed."
"There are some options not available in the community edition of the solution."
"There is always room for improvement in features or customer support."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know the exact cost, but it's not exorbitant. It may be a couple of thousand dollars a year or something like that. I'm not sure, but it's reasonable. We get value for money out of it."
"Like many Red Hat products, they have a no-cost version of the web application (AWX, formerly Ansible Tower), but you are on your own to install and it is a little more complicated than just installing Ansible."
"The solution is inexpensive compared to other products."
"It is a little pricey but it is affordable. It is not that bad."
"Red Hat's open source approach was a factor when choosing Ansible, since the solution is free as of right now."
"Users have to pay a per-node cost of around $ 100 per node."
"Customers need to pay yearly for the license."
"The pricing is okay."
"We went with product because we have a subscription for Red Hat."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Retailer
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Media Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
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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Sample Customers

Microsoft, NASA, Cisco, Domain, HP, Symantec, 3M, Philips
HootSuite Media, Inc., Cloud Physics, Narrative, BinckBank
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