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Great tool for IT automation
What do you like best about the product?
UI dashboard very clean, allows fast speeding of productivity with the tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Navigation can be unintuitive at times, icons should be more labeled.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automated deployment of pipelines through integration.
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Devops Enginner
What do you like best about the product?
Creating the ansible template and running the playbook from the template in tower
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to create separate project to use the different branch.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automate the deployment process
Recommendations to others considering the product:
its greet tool to use. it lets you run the playbook from the UI
Ansible Tower easy to manage our inventories and Job Templates
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible tower provide user friendly user interface that easy to understand. we can make project, specify inventories, create job template, schedules jobs, can able to create our own workflow. We can also fetch our inventories Machines IP from different target cloud like aws, azure,google cloud etc. Ansible Tower also provide vault so we can specify our credentials in that and use in our project.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setup is very challenging. if you setup Ansible tower in high availability mode than its tough.
There is so many things in ansible tower that you can get only in enterprise edition like survey, workflow etc
There is so many things in ansible tower that you can get only in enterprise edition like survey, workflow etc
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
i write some playbook that provision machines in aws (infra structure as a service) and write another playbook that install some software(Software as a service). and I also take user input by using survey and pass that user input to playbook. ex: if user input is centos so we have to provision centos operating systerm in aws and if other input is maria-db and java so we have to install java and maria-db in that machines that provision
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes I recommend to all other that use ansible ans provide Infrastructure as a service as well as software as a servcie. tower provide is very effective way to play with our playbook like you can specify a specific time to run a particular palybook (schedule a playbook). also create workflow to run a specific playbook after a particular playbook.
An awesome tool for automated deployment
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is a very easy to use tool. it has modules with almost everything eg. Shell, MySQL. Etc. It is YAML based and very easy to use. It only takes 3hours to learna and start writing your playbooks.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing which I dislike about ansible. May be it can improve on it's documentation a bit and develop a UI for better tooling
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automated deployment plus continuous integration and continuous deployment capabilities. Benefits are pretty visibly in terms of ease of use, simplicity, fast performance, compatibility with other frameworks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think if you are looking to automat your deployment process, you should definitely look into ansible. There are other tools as well , but it is a very simple took based on YAML. And it reduces the amount of coding to a great extent. Just use the syntax as mentioned in the documentation and you are good
Good tool for code deployment
What do you like best about the product?
* Simple tool to use once configured
* Supports infrastructure provisioning and deployment management
* Helps automate deployment process to a larger extent
* Integrates with tools like Jenkins
* Performance is relatively good as compared to other tools
* Key cog in the wheel that makes DevOps successful.
* Web based console makes tool it more user friendly
* Supports infrastructure provisioning and deployment management
* Helps automate deployment process to a larger extent
* Integrates with tools like Jenkins
* Performance is relatively good as compared to other tools
* Key cog in the wheel that makes DevOps successful.
* Web based console makes tool it more user friendly
What do you dislike about the product?
* Configuration takes long time especially for servers in DMZ environments
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
* Deployment and configuration management issues are largely address by using Ansible Tower.
* It has helped DevOps teams to have better control on the release/ deployment and configuration management processes.
* It has helped DevOps teams to have better control on the release/ deployment and configuration management processes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be patient with the initial set up process. It could be frustrating and time consuming; however it is highly beneficial in the long term.
The Swiss Army knife of automation scripting. My favorite automation tool.
What do you like best about the product?
- Great flexibility, with proper code organization you can automate any process you want at any complexity!
- Ansible is very easy to setup, being an agent-less tool. You can get started without installing any software on the target machine where you would like to execute your automation
- Great abstractions: roles (modules), inventory hosts and groups, facts (node information) and group-level as well as host-level variables. You can implement very complex automations in a very clean approach with Ansible abstractions.
- A lot of modules available at your disposal. From simple file copying, to templated files, to services and packages management. You will probably forget bash syntax after using Ansible for awhile. Well, you can also use bash to accomplish tasks that do not have modules for.
- Ansible is very easy to setup, being an agent-less tool. You can get started without installing any software on the target machine where you would like to execute your automation
- Great abstractions: roles (modules), inventory hosts and groups, facts (node information) and group-level as well as host-level variables. You can implement very complex automations in a very clean approach with Ansible abstractions.
- A lot of modules available at your disposal. From simple file copying, to templated files, to services and packages management. You will probably forget bash syntax after using Ansible for awhile. Well, you can also use bash to accomplish tasks that do not have modules for.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are very little cons, but here are some cons that by design:
- Due to lack of centralized server, you cannot orchestrate automations that span multiple nodes asynchronously. You can still run a playbook against all nodes of the cluster, but if there are inter-dependencies, then all hosts must be included in the playbook and you have to implement some logic to resolve those dependencies. By contract, when using a centralized tool like Chef, you can fetch information from centralized data structures which can be populated asynchronously.
- Also due to simplicity, Ansible does not handle playbook versioning, it's something that you have to implement on your own.
- Due to lack of centralized server, you cannot orchestrate automations that span multiple nodes asynchronously. You can still run a playbook against all nodes of the cluster, but if there are inter-dependencies, then all hosts must be included in the playbook and you have to implement some logic to resolve those dependencies. By contract, when using a centralized tool like Chef, you can fetch information from centralized data structures which can be populated asynchronously.
- Also due to simplicity, Ansible does not handle playbook versioning, it's something that you have to implement on your own.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Complex automations. It greatly allowed us to implement very complex automations in clean, reusable manner.
Very easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
It is very easy to use. All you to do is write in a bunch of commands and give it an inventory file and the ansible will execute those commands on all the servers that are in the inventory file.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ansible is push based. It is not pull based like puppet. So we may not be able to have a fixed constant environment like we have with puppet. One may make changes on one server and we may not even know that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to do multiple tasks on multiple servers at the same time by writing a small script.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I strongly recommend using this.
Automation for SysAdmins
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is an amazing tool who allows to automating SysAdmin tasks like big deployment of the same instances or managing updates. All this : without physically accessing the machine and all is logged so it remains ISO 20K compliant !
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a learning curve and you need to understand Yaml to write playbooks. But actually, this is not too complex and the wiki website is well documented. The community is very big.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deployment at scale of complex environment with audit logs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't be afraid to learn new products, this one really really worth your time investment. It is free, open source and community drive OR you can buy subscription and get support from Red Hat directly. There is UI called Tower, but if you don't absolutely need it, avoid it.
Revolutionary manager for groups of servers
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of commands to manage a full complex group of servers. It's really easy to see where they are alive or not (via a ping play, for example). With playbooks, you automate the building. What I like the most is that you can use it along Docker, and even Vagrant. At our company, in the next software version we will deploy, we will be using Ansible due to its simplicity. We've already built some of the playbooks
What do you dislike about the product?
Really, the only thing I would like is Ansible Tower to be free. But well, not everything is possible!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are managing a group of servers that need to be deployed and updated. The software we are releasing has some modules that change, and we need them updated whenever the client calls or via planned updates. The thing is that when something is failing in a client, we find what's causing the problem, and then replicate in the rest of the servers. It's simply astonishing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do not fear, I am still facing superiors to change to Ansible because they are too only-bash-basic-commands and build-everything-on-bash.
Easy to get going, advanced enough to do what you need to do
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is easy to get into, it has a simplistic configuration and allows for a huge variety of integrations with other services.
What do you dislike about the product?
The major downside is when you need something that is not officially supported. You'll get on galaxy and look for a 3rd party plugin. Some of those are great, but not all.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Previously we used webmin to manage our servers, it was a mess. These days we use Ansible as Configuration Management and are looking to expand its usage into builds and deployment.
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