Octopus Deploy vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Octopus Deploy
Ranking in Release Automation
8th
Average Rating
8.0
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
Number of Reviews
65
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (1st), Network Automation (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of Octopus Deploy is 1.2%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is 4.2%, down from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Release Automation
Unique Categories:
No other categories found
Configuration Management
18.1%
Network Automation
15.8%
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekSingh11 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 11, 2022
Easy to set up with intuitive UI and good reliability
Most of our use cases are for continuous deployment. Basically, we would grab that package and deploy it to different adverse or intensive webs for our AKS spots. For continuous deployment, I'm using Octopus Deploy.  The solution is very easy to set up.  It is very stable.  We can scale the…
AM
May 7, 2024
Helps automate complex tasks and saves a lot of time and money
Ansible Automation Platform has saved a lot of time, man-hours, and money. Specifically for the upgrades, there have been a lot of time savings. It keeps us in compliance. It helps with compliance drifting and keeping us up to date with code. It helps to reduce the number of steps involved in automating things. Everything is performed consistently every time. There are no missed steps. If you do it manually, you might miss a step. With Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, it is just the same every time, which is good. Ansible Automation Platform does not reduce the training required to learn how to automate things. There is a lot more overhead and a lot more training to teach how to use Ansible. Ansible Automation Platform helps connect teams, such as developers, operations, or security so that they can automate together. Our engineering team can now collaborate or work with our operations team. We build the Ansible solution, and they run the solution. There is more teamwork. We use the collection of certified content. It is 80% there for helping to quickly add automation to our systems. It is decent. Ansible Automation Platform has helped to reduce the time we spend on low-value or repetitive tasks by 80%.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Deployment is valuable. It deploys well."
"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."
"I like Ansible's ease of use. If you have Linux skills, you can create a reusable template for the dependencies and other configurations. I can store the templates in a repository and share them with my customers or other developers. It's a popular solution, so there is a large user base that can share templates."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"This solution allows us to stitch a lot of different parts of the workflow together."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"The solution is capable of integrating with many applications and devices in comparison to BigFix."
"RBAC is great around Organizations and I can use that backend as our lab. Ingesting stuff into the JSON logs, into any sort of logging collector; it works with Splunk and there are other collectors as well. It supports Sumo and that helps, I can go create reports in Sumo Logic. Workflows are an interesting feature. I can collect a lot of templates and create a workflow out of them."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is quite stable. If you set it up correctly with the right configurations and there are no hiccups during installation and deployment, it will be stable. I'd give stability a rating of eight out of ten."
 

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."
"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."
"We are not using the Dashboard a lot because we have higher expectations from it. The default Dashboard from Tower doesn't give that much information. We really want to get down into more than if the job succeeded or what was the percentage of success. We want to get down to task-level success. If, in a job, there are ten tasks, we want to see this task was a success, and this was not, and how many were not. That's the kind of granularity we are looking for, that Tower does not give right now."
"There should be consistency. I know that it is always changing, but when we are trying to get some users to do something in basic Ansible that they are not really interested in doing but their job requires them to do it, they start finding inconsistencies."
"It could be easier to integrate Ansible with other solutions. No single tool can do everything. For example, we use Terraform for infrastructure and other solutions for configuration management and VMs."
"The solution must be made easier to configure."
"The area which I feel can be improved is the custom modules. For example, there are something like 106 official modules available in the Ansible library. A year ago, that number was somewhere around 58. While Ansible is improving day by day, this can be improved more. For instance, when you need to configure in the cloud, you need to write up a module for that."
"We are very satisfied with what we have. From a management point of view, whatever makes it easier for my team to help customers write their own playbooks would be something very beneficial. Everything is going as a service. Creating playbooks can become much more consumer-oriented so that customers do not need to contact us to write their own playbooks."
"The solution requires some Linux knowledge."
 

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."
"The pricing is okay."
"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 pretty expensive."
"We use the open-source version of the solution."
"We went with product because we have a subscription for Red Hat."
"You don't need to buy agents on servers or deploy expense management when using the solution, which affected our decision to go with it."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an affordable solution."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an expensive solution. There may be additional fees to use advanced features."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
36%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Educational Organization
27%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Octopus Deploy?
Deployment is valuable. It deploys well.
What needs improvement with Octopus Deploy?
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.
What is your primary use case for Octopus Deploy?
We're a DevOps team., and its use case is deployment. That's the only thing it does. Our version is relatively recent.
What is the difference between Red Hat Satellite and Ansible?
Red Hat Satellite has proven to be a worthwhile investment for me. Both its patch management and license management have been outstanding. If you have a large environment, patching systems is much ...
How does Ansible compare to Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM)?
Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager takes knowledge and research to properly configure. The length of time that the set up will take depends on the kind of technical architecture that your org...
What do you like most about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?
The most valuable features of the solution are automation and patching.
 

Also Known As

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Ansible
 

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Sample Customers

Microsoft, NASA, Cisco, Domain, HP, Symantec, 3M, Philips
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