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Good for Configuration Management
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible provides a simple way to perform distributed server management, and it's quite easy to maintain configuration for a group of servers. Overall, my favorite portions are the simplicity and efficiency, especially that it does not require a dedicated server to act as the host for configuration.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've only used it for a few servers, and I'm not entirely sure how it would perform in larger-scale implementations, with hundreds or thousands of servers with widely varying roles.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Configuration of multiple servers and keeping all configuration inside a git repo. The fact that it allows me to easily and quickly set up new servers is extremely valuable, as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Gather requirements beforehand.
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Continuous Delivery with Ansible, Jenkins and Docker
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is really easy to use. Its default plugins covers most of the core needs that a DevOps could use. Unlike Chef, you don't need any client on the nodes you want to manage as everything is done through SSH. This reduction in complexity helps a lot in plugin development, bug fixing and debugging.
What do you dislike about the product?
Most of the times documentation is nice or enough but, sometimes, it's a bit tricky to understand some of the characteristics or commands of some plugins, sometimes because you need deep understanding of the things you're going to do, sometimes because description isn't perfect. You'll manage to do everything at the end.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deployment of dozens of nodes at the same time. Our benefits are the development and testing of our playbooks, that are lot easier that with Chef (our previous solution) without the deployment of the Chef Server + an Chef Agent on each machine in our cluster.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are starting in DevOps world, start with Ansible. If you have spend some time in DevOps world or you're already an expert that haven't used it yet, give it a try, I'm sure that most of the users will enjoy its simplicity and ease of use.
Effortless server configuration
What do you like best about the product?
I love that there is no agent to install on each server that you want to manage. Everything is done over SSH. I started writing playbooks and doing the same actions on multiple servers in minutes.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes, the documentation is a little vague. More concrete examples would be very helpful for new users. Luckily, there are some good guides online from other sources.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I manage ~400 servers and I needed a way to easily spin up a new VPS and install our application on it. What used to take about an hour now takes about a minute. I also use Ansible for continuous deployment. Application updates are scripted with Ansible and can be on each server almost instantly. Ansible also allowed us to keep a consistent server configuration across our business.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Read the documentation. Almost everything is covered very well, but because it is so flexible they can't put every situation in the documentation. Search online for how others user Ansible in their environments. Search GitHub for playbooks.
Ansible revirew
What do you like best about the product?
Simplicity and relatively low learning curve
What do you dislike about the product?
Extensibility with custom functionality if you need something that is not present OOTB
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation of deployment processes
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's good tool for deployment automation with low learning curve and simple in usage
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