Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform pros and cons

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DevOps Consultant at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 13, 2021

Being a game-changer in configuration management software is what has made Ansible so popular and widespread. Much of IT is based on SSH direct connectivity with a need for running infrastructure in an agentless way, and that has been a big plus. SSH has become a great security standard for managing servers. The whole thing has really become an out-of-the-box solution for managing a Unix estate.

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Automation Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Jul 12, 2022

It has an easy-to-use interface. It is REST API driven, and it integrates with Active Directory. It provides the ability to grant permissions to other users who would not necessarily have those permissions via the GUI so that they could run other people's jobs. For example, you could have the Oracle team grant permissions to the Linux team so that they can use each of those playbooks or each other's code. It is called shift-left.

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NS

Student at ARTH

Aug 2, 2021

Ansible is agentless. So, we don't need to set up any agent into the computer we are interacting with. The only prerequisite is that the host with which we are going to interact must have the Python interpreter installed on it. We can connect to a host and do our configuration by using Ansible.

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Linux Platform System Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 2, 2021

It has improved our organization through provisioning and security hardening. When we do get a new VM, we have been able to bring on a provisioned machine in less than a day. This morning alone, I provisioned two machines within an hour. I am talking about hardening, installing antivirus software on it, and creating user accounts because the Playbooks were predesigned. From the time we got the servers to the actual hand-off, it takes less than an hour. We are talking about having the servers actually authenticate Red Hat Satellites and run the yum updates. All of that can be done within an hour.

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AG

Devops Engineer at Infosys Ltd

Feb 6, 2023

One of the most valuable features is that Ansible is agentless. It does not have dependencies, other than Python, which is very generic in terms of dependencies for all systems and for any environment. Being agentless, Ansible is very convenient for everything.

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CB

Solutions Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 21, 2018

The biggest thing I liked about Ansible is the check mode so that we can verify, after we've pushed, that the config there is actually what we intended.

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SS

Senior Operations Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 21, 2018

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.

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JG

Principal Engineer at CyberArk

Oct 21, 2018

The user interface is well-built and very easy to navigate around.

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Surya Chapagain

Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 13, 2022

Some colleagues and other companies use it and comment that it is easy to use, easy to understand, and offers good features.

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Chief Cloud Architect at T1 Solution, s.r.o.

Feb 6, 2022

One of the most valuable features is automation. We are doing automation infrastructure, which allows us to automate regular tasks. This solution provides us with a service catalog, like building new services and automating daily tasks.

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DevOps Consultant at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 13, 2021

Some of the modules in Ansible could be a bit more mature. There is still a little room for further development. Some performance aspects could be improved, perhaps in the form of parallelism within Ansible.

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Automation Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Jul 12, 2022

Ansible has just been upgraded, and the only issue that we are seeing at the moment is that the user interface can be slow. We're currently investigating the refresh period with Red Hat when you click a job and run a job. It seems that the buffer no longer runs in real-time. We haven't discovered whether that's partially an issue with our environment, but Red Hat has come back and said that they're working on a couple of bugs in the background. We've upgraded to that version in the last six months, and that's the only issue that we've seen.

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NS

Student at ARTH

Aug 2, 2021

Ansible is great, but there are not many modules. You can do about 80% to 90% of things by using commands, but more modules should be added. We cannot do some of the things in Ansible. In Red Hat, we have the YUM package manager, and there are certain options that we can pass through YUM. To install the Docker Community Edition, I'll write the yum install docker-ce command, but because the Docker Community Edition is not compatible with RHEL 8, I will have to use the nobest option, such as yum install docker-ce --nobest. The nobest option installs the most stable version that can be installed on a particular system. In Ansible, the nobest option is not there. So, it needs some improvements in terms of options. There should be more options, keywords, and modules.

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Linux Platform System Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 2, 2021

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.

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AG

Devops Engineer at Infosys Ltd

Feb 6, 2023

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.

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SS

Senior Operations Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oct 21, 2018

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.

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JG

Principal Engineer at CyberArk

Oct 21, 2018

It can use some more credential types. I've found that when I go looking for a certain credential type, such as private keys, they're not really there.

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Surya Chapagain

Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Nov 13, 2022

If we have a problem with some file and we need to get Red Hat to analyze the issue and the file is 100GBs, we'll have an issue since we need to provide a log file for them to analyze. If it is around 12GB or 13GB, we can easily upload it to the Red Hat portal. With more than 100GBs, it will fail. I heard it should cover up to 250GB for an upload, however, I find it fails. Therefore, Red Hat needs to provide a way to handle this.

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Chief Cloud Architect at T1 Solution, s.r.o.

Feb 6, 2022

We would like support for the post-integration of this product before cloud frameworks because right now their approach is to avoid using on-premises activities and move everything to the cloud.

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FN

CEO/Founder at Zen Networks

May 23, 2022

Accessibility. Ansible uses a CLI by default. Those accustomed to it can find their way and adopt the YAML files easily over time. But, some users are more comfortable using UIs...

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