I use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for automating some administrative tasks. Specifically, I utilize it for system administration tasks.
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AAP Review 2025
What do you like best about the product?
It provides security for managing keys and pass phrases, allows many users to run templates, and provides a great work flow to run playbooks. AAP makes it easy to run ansible playbooks.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice for templates to be organized in a better manner. Now they are all listed on a single page and requires searching.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Help automate deployments and configurations to make them consistent and repeatable.
Comprehensive support and intergration
What do you like best about the product?
Red Hat offers comprehensive support for Ansible. Ansible is fantastic and automating our infrastructure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ansible can have a steep learning curve.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ansible allows us to automate our virtual machine deployment.
Ansible Automation Platform has been the most flexible platform for automation journey
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility of Ansible as a tool has been very helpful as it hasn't limited us to interacting with current tooling across our environment, and instead has allowed us to write automation against any tools quickly and easily, often with a pre-built module.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of dynamic survey inputs or a more user focused portal
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Server build automation, server decommission, moving data across networks to offline networks, task scheduling and execution
Easy to deploy in test and development environments on a single server.
What do you like best about the product?
I liked how easy it was to deploy on top of RHEL 9.
By leveraging the single server Ansible playbook for deployment, I was up and running with in hours.
By leveraging the single server Ansible playbook for deployment, I was up and running with in hours.
What do you dislike about the product?
Newer releases seem more difficult to deploy on single server setups.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Unified automation for our Windows, RHEL, and VMware systems.
JDs Ansible Automation Review
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use creating playbooks and what they can accomplish in mass
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any complaints about Ansible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating simple tasks for inexperienced users as well as mass changes and deployment
Automation in one spot
What do you like best about the product?
I like how it can be as easy or as diverse as you want to make it
What do you dislike about the product?
Upgrading the platform in a government environment was a little difficult
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moving away from puppet and integrating Ansible Automation Platform saved us a ton of time and also money
Network Automation Made Easy
What do you like best about the product?
The integration for Network Automation and easy to use GUI.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having to use a GUI, lol, but seriously, the GUI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automating the hard things in life, migrating siloed networks.
Deploying AAP for DoD Customer
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use, friendly / intuitive web interface
What do you dislike about the product?
There wasn't anything I can think of that I disliked so far
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Shore deployment of engineering changes to deployed units
A game changer to simplify administration.
What do you like best about the product?
An easy to use tool that simplifies administration and makes systems future proof
What do you dislike about the product?
a bit of a learning curve and a mindset change to traditional methods. Not entirely a bad thing though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
unifying standalone scripts and allowing normal users to execute commands with authorization controls.
Utilizing automation for administrative tasks is streamlined, but dashboards need enhancement
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is valuable due to the simplicity of the YAML language. It makes it simple to develop Ansible playbooks and roles, which aids in simplifying my daily administrative tasks.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see improvements in the dashboards. More detailed dashboards would be beneficial because there is a lack of dashboards on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for three years, while using satellites for about three or four years.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
It was easy to set up Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, not too complicated.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not really encountered any stability issues with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have not tested the scalability of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, but I believe it is a mature product and can handle scalability.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have not worked with other automation tools. Currently, I am only testing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy. It took approximately one day.
What about the implementation team?
I implemented the solution by myself, in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I know Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform costs money since I am using a trial license. The pricing is high, and since I'm not using all functionalities, it would be better if the price depended on the functionalities used.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate any other solutions before going with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform as seven out of ten.
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