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Ansible: The masterpiece without hassle A graceful tool for configuration-management and deployment.
What do you like best about the product?
Time saving:- Administration tasks such as patching systems can be done quickly and remotely at ease with the help of packaging module, updating and rebooting a system, restarting virtual machines can be done conveniently and efficiently.
Easy configuration management language: - It uses YAML language to write playbooks which is very easy to understand that can be used from developer to n/w admin.
Agentless remote systems:- It requires no agents to install on remote system
Native protocols:- Depending upon device types It uses native protocol like SSH for Unix, WinRM for windows etc.
Cloud native infrastructure management:- It can be used in the process of container build, Cluster management, application life-cyles and many more.
It is open source, you can also write your own plugins, Ansible tower which is easy to use web-based ui.
Easy configuration management language: - It uses YAML language to write playbooks which is very easy to understand that can be used from developer to n/w admin.
Agentless remote systems:- It requires no agents to install on remote system
Native protocols:- Depending upon device types It uses native protocol like SSH for Unix, WinRM for windows etc.
Cloud native infrastructure management:- It can be used in the process of container build, Cluster management, application life-cyles and many more.
It is open source, you can also write your own plugins, Ansible tower which is easy to use web-based ui.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is platform dependent therefore the code written in one OS will not work on another.
It is slow as compared to other tool like salt
Push model is slow.
Ansible doesn,t fail fast if there is any config error:- There is no feature to check the modules on pre-conditions. So in ansible with minimum syntax check it moves forward till it reaches the module with an error while altering the host config and leaving your host in partially config state.
It is slow as compared to other tool like salt
Push model is slow.
Ansible doesn,t fail fast if there is any config error:- There is no feature to check the modules on pre-conditions. So in ansible with minimum syntax check it moves forward till it reaches the module with an error while altering the host config and leaving your host in partially config state.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is used for application deployment without going directly to the desk which saves our time.
It is easy to use as compared to power shell.
It is easy to use as compared to power shell.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need to setup configuration management tool and deployment tool urgently. Ansible is the best platform for setting up your IT environment. As it is very easy to pick up concepts and start working on and documentation is also readable. It is understandable right from network administrator to manager, developer .
One of best Config Management and Orchestration tool
What do you like best about the product?
Very simple and powerful tool for automation in complex muti-tier application environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Log debugging is complex and not straigt forward task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation of deployment of micro-services in k8s infrastructure using playbooks. Automating services build and deployment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nice and easy way to automate service deployment in complex and dynamic development environment.
A Cloud provisioning solution
What do you like best about the product?
1. Easy to setup and deploy stack for cloud servers
2. Its Agent-less architecture handles it using ssh or paramiko modules as it is written in python
3. Security aspects it is highly preferred as it uses ssh for communication
2. Its Agent-less architecture handles it using ssh or paramiko modules as it is written in python
3. Security aspects it is highly preferred as it uses ssh for communication
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing i dislike is Its comparatively slow than other cloud provisioning tools eg. Salt as it uses ssh for communication between nodes..
While salt uses ZeroMQ. which is fast
While salt uses ZeroMQ. which is fast
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Cloud provisioning
2. application deployment
3. software updates and upgrades on cloud servers.
2. application deployment
3. software updates and upgrades on cloud servers.
Best deployment tool and configuration.
What do you like best about the product?
we can configure several machines from the single Ansible. Server in-built modules are provided and is very easy to use.I would recommend to go through the official Ansible docs for beginners also try using the best practices from starting.should have basic knowledge of python prior using ansible.Always search for existing modules.Read all error messages carefully before moving further.
What do you dislike about the product?
Error messages should give detailed information about the error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating test cases, single playbook can be used for multiple machines.
Using ansible makes things easy.
can deploy same thing on several machines.
Using ansible makes things easy.
can deploy same thing on several machines.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
we can configure several machines from the single Ansible. Server in-built modules are provided and is very easy to use.Always search for existing modules.Read all error messages carefully before moving further.I would recommend to go through the official Ansible docs for beginners also try using the best practices from starting.should have basic knowledge of python prior using ansible.Automating test cases, single playbook can be used for multiple machines.
Using ansible makes things easy.
can deploy same thing on several machines.
Using ansible makes things easy.
can deploy same thing on several machines.
Ansible is a good tool for automation.
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about the Ansible is that it is easy to learn. It can be used to automate deployment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some times it is very difficult to find out the reason for any errors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it to deploy UI application using NGINX server on kubernetes cluster.
Anisble is the best automation platform that I used till now. It's fast, efficient and easy to use.
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about Ansible is it's short learning curve. Anyone new to it gets a good understanding of it in very short time. It's very easy to learn and it can be used in a wide range of scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
Till now I have not faced any problem using Ansible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used it to automate the process of creating kubernetes cluster. This is a tedious task, but ansible makes it easy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a good automation platform, it can be used to automate a lot of things, you can use it with ease.
One of the best automation profile for IT sector
What do you like best about the product?
One can scale automation as per requirement with control and insights. We can create organization wise automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing dislikes seems in this product, require skillful brains.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use redhat ansible automation platform to automate products operational works.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for any better automation platform, red hat ansible provide a best way. Just go for it without any hesitation.
Powerful tool to perform configurations and installation on an endpoint.
What do you like best about the product?
Best to install and manage all the configurations needed on a similar set of servers depending upon the host group implementations. Best known for its idempotent capabilities. Have integrated it with industry's best programming and scripting languages.
Easy to learn and implement the desired action.
Easy to learn and implement the desired action.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not precise with debug logs to point the correct reason behind the issue.
Being a JSON format loving guy YAML format is tricky to adapt.
Being a JSON format loving guy YAML format is tricky to adapt.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Configured more than 200 servers with single script.
Helped in configuring and updating the switches and gateways with a single playbook and few roles.
Spinning up and terminating N cluster nodes in few minutes had been very easy.
Helped in configuring and updating the switches and gateways with a single playbook and few roles.
Spinning up and terminating N cluster nodes in few minutes had been very easy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best suited for the use cases where the intention is manage hundreds on devices from a single script. Saves lot of time and human effort. Can run test suites on hundreds of installation in one go.
This is the best tool for writing scripts for execution on multiple machines
What do you like best about the product?
Especially this ansible scripts can be executed on multiple machines at a time , like same activity we can perform no of machines that's very useful and time reducing thing.
It would be compatible for all my regular cloud operations and daily administration and testing activities.mostly i like built in features with less code I can use. and it will be supported on maximum OS's covered i.e like windows and mac and linux. This is user friendly easy to understand code.
also it is open source tool is the big advantage for users.
It would be compatible for all my regular cloud operations and daily administration and testing activities.mostly i like built in features with less code I can use. and it will be supported on maximum OS's covered i.e like windows and mac and linux. This is user friendly easy to understand code.
also it is open source tool is the big advantage for users.
What do you dislike about the product?
Play book script should be OS specific and we need to port if we execute on different OS types, Initial code for operation we need to write more but some of the code can be re-usable for other operations with some changes. As prospective of error handling and debugging also big challenge just ansible uses generic error messages with line number and syntax error message.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Initially we need to perform operations manually but after started this Red Hat Ansible Automation we just used to one system we are triggering and monitoring in same system and also checking errors same system. Integrity of testing and development has bridged this software.
Now test environments setup and dependent softwares configuring in multiple machines web applications related thing and both physical and virtual environment has been managed using this tool. We can use this in networking and virtualization and cloud, storage domains.
Now test environments setup and dependent softwares configuring in multiple machines web applications related thing and both physical and virtual environment has been managed using this tool. We can use this in networking and virtualization and cloud, storage domains.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Services & product functionality and performance, Strong customer focus,no of operations to common for all platforms to be improved.
It is an user friendly yet powerful effective among the other tools
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy learn, very user friendly and to run and debug. It has no dependency, powerful to scale application.
What do you dislike about the product?
You have control over the target host for the duration of the playbook and that’s it, you can’t have long-running tasks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am performing repeated command on multiple VMs/machines, Ansible making life easy for me to do and control it from single machine. Not only that but it helping to downgrade/upgrade rpm on multiple VMs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Cool platform to automate things easily yet very powerful. It very easy to learn and use for beginner or with no prier knowledge. It dose not depended on other module. Most useful things about it is that you can deploy your own module as per requirement. It also provides security for authentication. According to me it is the best tool among available in the market must go for it.
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