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Octopus Deploy vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Octopus Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
13th
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
69
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (1st), Network Automation (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Octopus Deploy is 2.8%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is 5.7%, up from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Release Automation
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekSingh11 - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to set up with intuitive UI and good reliability
I haven't used support. Since it is on-prem, our tech support would manage to troubleshoot. There might have been instances where there have been some issues with the on-prem version that I don't know of. Our tech support may have touched base with the. However, I don't have that level of visibility.
Muralitharan KS - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficient server management and detailed reporting with flexible deployment capabilities
We are primarily using Ansible for automation purposes as it is a configuration management tool. It is utilized for various activities such as DNS activity, changes to web servers, virtual host settings, and other day-to-day tasks, all of which are templated in Ansible Ansible allows us to manage…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The UI is very intuitive."
"The rollback feature has been most valuable. We can write scripts from scratch. Octopus maintains an independent package for every deployment."
"Deployment is valuable. It deploys well."
"The user interface is well-built and very easy to navigate around."
"It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well."
"The solution is capable of integrating with many applications and devices in comparison to BigFix."
"I like the agentless feature. This means we don't install any agent in worker nodes."
"The API for exposing all our infrastructure services is the most valuable feature."
"It is agentless. I don't have to think about which client system my unit has understanding in or not, because I can execute from my system. It will go and configure it, and any module that it is looking for will be shipped out."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is valuable due to the simplicity of the YAML language."
"The automation capabilities streamline deployment processes, providing reliability and reducing manual intervention and errors."
 

Cons

"There could be scope for more integration with other platforms."
"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."
"It needs better documentation."
"The governance features could be improved."
"There should be better Windows support. We have had to develop a lot of our own roles because of the Windows platform. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux ones existed but not the Windows versions, so I have had to develop a bunch of Windows ones."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"When you set up Playbooks, I may have one version of the Playbook, but another member of the team may have a different vision, and we will not know which version is correct. We want to have one central repository for managing the different versions of Playbooks, so we can have better collaboration among team members. This is our use case for using Git version control."
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
"It is a little slow on the network side because every time you call a module, it's initiating an SSH or an API call to a network device, and it just slows things down."
"There are challenges in using the graphical interface, particularly in open-source versions."
 

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."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an affordable solution."
"It’s an open-source tool."
"Red Hat's open source approach was a factor when choosing Ansible, since the solution is free as of right now."
"Ansible Tower is pretty expensive."
"Everything is generally fair. No one ever likes to pay a lot of money, but we are getting the value. We also get support with it. It has been fair and worthwhile."
"Ansible Tower is free. Until they lower the cost, we are holding off on purchasing the product."
"The pricing for us is huge because we use twenty thousand nodes, so that is a huge infrastructure, but if someone is using a small infrastructure, then the pricing is not so much."
"We're charged between $8 to $13 a month per license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
29%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Insurance Company
5%
Educational Organization
21%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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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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