We primarily use it for network automation and security or CVE resolution.
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Great tool for automating deployments
What do you like best about the product?
The playbook format is easy to understand and intuitve.
What do you dislike about the product?
Role dependencies are not included recursively
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Code deployment
Very easy to stand up and start using platform
What do you like best about the product?
good platform for multi group environment
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost. $/node could be very expensoive in the large envronment
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deployment concistency, and speed of delivery
AAP is great
What do you like best about the product?
AAP has been a game changer in enabling innovation and automation. As an automation developer, I can focus on the act and art of automation, and not fuss about maintaining sprawling supporting infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't dislike much, but there are still some obtuse features like Execution Environment building, and some UI issues like lack of per-field help.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
AAP solves the issue of enabling a powerful enterprise-ready automation platform.
Great product, and it is a game changer.
What do you like best about the product?
It is plain and simple to use. We have gained so much in our organization while using it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to complaint about it. It is a solid product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Standarized our 2500 hosts, and great use for deployment.
Need way to import specific community modules potentially on the fly with a playbook
What do you like best about the product?
Helpful for the logging and management of the different acccess keys and a central way to run/share playbooks
What do you dislike about the product?
our old implementation of Ansible Tower (my team is a tenant) had the community modules. New environmetn does NOT and we do not have access to create our own custom execution environments.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
cloud infrastructure
Infrastructure Architect standardizing our environment with ansible
What do you like best about the product?
I like I can create configuration and based on hosts or groups apply to my ectire fleet of ververs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Invlite vault is a bit clunky. If not formatted exactly correct it does not read.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is allowing us to standardize our server. Makes our administration easier.
Ansible
What do you like best about the product?
I think its a great platform. but you're missing out on companies at Wix's size would prefer to develop in house solution due to high pricing
What do you dislike about the product?
I use Ansible, not the automation platform because the pricing is ridiculesly high.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
the above topics
Saves thousands of hours and helps to resolve security issues within minutes
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
We save thousands of hours a year doing security updates and configuration updates. We save our administrator's time by pushing updates. It is a one-click solution, and all they have to do now is pull down whatever they need for their configs. It saves about 4,000 man hours a year.
If you imagine Tier 1, 2, and 3 administrators, I am sitting more at the Tier 3 level. We are able to push out more complicated configurations. We can do just an SSH push to thousands of devices. It saves the time of our administrators from having to go into the console of every device. They do not have to SSH into every device and manually type in those configs. We can resolve security issues within a matter of minutes rather than days.
You have the initial big push to get Ansible set up and running in the environment, but once it is there, any tweaks or changes involve just edits to the code base, and you are good to go. It is not at all intensive.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has not reduced the training required to learn how to automate things. We are starting from scratch, so there is always going to be a learning curve associated with it. The more you peel that onion, the more involved it gets, and the more you have to learn about it.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform helps connect teams, such as developers, operations, or security so that they can automate together. It is hard to get anything done if all of those players are not talking. Knowledge bases are not siloed anymore. Previously, we did not have a cross-talk or sharing of information. Now that we have the platform, we have to share knowledge back and forth where we are pushing an update and they are telling us what is broken. There is constant feedback. There is a good feedback loop.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has helped to reduce the time we spend on low-value or repetitive tasks. It is hard to quantify the time savings because of the mass scale at which we use it, but it would be within thousands of man hours a year.
My guess is that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has saved us costs, but I am not in a position to see those numbers.
What is most valuable?
When you have an enterprise-level number of network devices, the ability to quickly push out security updates to thousands of devices is the biggest thing.
What needs improvement?
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.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for the last eight months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is pretty good. Usually, if we have any issues, they are user-induced. When Ansible goes down or there is an issue like that, it is usually something we have done at the backend rather than Ansible itself.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is very scalable. The way we use it is that we tie it in with another app to touch all of our devices and to deploy any configurations or whatever we need to push. Our code base sits on Git, and then we use another company for monitoring our devices. With one tower, or two for redundancy, we are able to push to more than 5,000 devices.
How are customer service and support?
It has been good so far. There have been a few cases for which we reached out to them to get some help. I have not interacted with them personally, but I have heard good things. I would rate their support an eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have not used any similar solution.
How was the initial setup?
I was not there when we set it up. In terms of the deployment model, we still have one that is in the VM, and we are also using the containerized version. It is still Ansible Tower.
What was our ROI?
It has saved us thousands of man hours.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I was not there when we set it up. We have been using it for about four years. I am not sure about what happened before then.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform a nine out of ten.
it makes your life easier, expend more time in another projects
What do you like best about the product?
its so reliable so I can create templates for all the devices I needed and wanted, and save me time
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing at all, the documentation is great
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
change configuration on a network devices one by one is madness, so using ansible I can doit better faster and erro free
Greatly enjoy the ease of automation.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, expanse of pre-existing modules for managment/automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
yaml spacing/syntax editing when wrting custom playbooks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of environment wide system configurations. Attacking security vulnerability remediation across environment.
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