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The best tool for automated configuration management
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is extremely easy to use.
You just need to write few lines of code and it works. Using SSH, Ansible can send commands to 500 servers in a go.
It reduces lot of errors which in case of manual configuration would have introduced easily.
We need to simply run playbooks natively via SSH installed on the hosts machines.
You just need to write few lines of code and it works. Using SSH, Ansible can send commands to 500 servers in a go.
It reduces lot of errors which in case of manual configuration would have introduced easily.
We need to simply run playbooks natively via SSH installed on the hosts machines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much except that YAML syntax is somewhat complex, Although YAML is now a go to format for sharing data, JSON support would have been an added advantage.
Also it has a limitation as compared to Terraform of unable to dynamically changing host files.
Also it has a limitation as compared to Terraform of unable to dynamically changing host files.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been using Ansible to configure huge set of networking devices in a go. With SDN evolving immensely, lot of networking devices now has a need to be configured remotely and at one go.
Using Ansible we have configured 100's of switches, firewalls, gateways and without much hassle.
Life of an administrator/engineer has changed a lot. Very few mistakes and increased productivity
Using Ansible we have configured 100's of switches, firewalls, gateways and without much hassle.
Life of an administrator/engineer has changed a lot. Very few mistakes and increased productivity
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is the best automation tool. Depending on your use-case there are multiple options available in market, but Ansible is preferred tool for most of the use-cases.
It has increased the productivity of lot of engineers to a greater extend.
It has increased the productivity of lot of engineers to a greater extend.
Worthwhile tool for configuring any environment without installing any agent on the endpoint
What do you like best about the product?
Generally its very difficult to manage large groups of servers but Redhat Ansible makes it very easy to configure them. With idempotent operations its better than all its competitors. Its integration with most of the scripting languages make it a dynamic tool to implemen CI/CD tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Logging is not so apt. Error message doesn't give clear reason for root cause of the issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helped in configuring on-premise, virtual machines as well as cloud nodes. Found an edge for deploying instances, configuring them and performing networking configurations. We used it mainly for server/cluster creations and tear-down.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Runs over SSH so its really very easy to perform any operation on the remote machines. This is a good to go product for configuring production grade environments.
Make configuration management not bash
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is a part of IaC (Infrastructure as Code). IaC is a modern approach and I believe that infrastructure is code. It means that we should use the same philosophy for infrastructure as for software development. If we are talking that infrastructure is code, then we should reuse practices from development for infrastructure. Ansible allows us to implement this approaches, i.e. S.O.L.I.D. for ansible, pair devopsing and IaC Testing Pyramid.
However, there are some some basic benefits:
* Efficient : Agentless.
* Simple : Declarative language.
* Secure : SSH / WinRM transport.
* Powerful & Flexible : Modules.
* Mature : Supported by Red Hat.
However, there are some some basic benefits:
* Efficient : Agentless.
* Simple : Declarative language.
* Secure : SSH / WinRM transport.
* Powerful & Flexible : Modules.
* Mature : Supported by Red Hat.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes people follow imperative approach instead of declarative during developing Ansible playbooks. As a result they don't have idempotent playbooks. It's extremely hard to maintain that kind of roles. Also in the vast majority of cases people forget to implement testing procedure for ansible code.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There are some use cases:
* Configure VMs.
* Create new VMs.
* Create VM template as a Packer provisioner.
* Install your application.
* Create docker images.
* Install your aplication to k8s/openshift.
* Configure VMs.
* Create new VMs.
* Create VM template as a Packer provisioner.
* Install your application.
* Create docker images.
* Install your aplication to k8s/openshift.
Sensible review
What do you like best about the product?
Doing same process on different machines at the same time is the best thing of ansible. As we are moving with new technology as per the market , this tool is so useful when it comes to the automation part. Lot of articles are present over internet to learn ansible only if you have hands on Unix environment then learning will be so easy for any one.
What do you dislike about the product?
To get hands on over ansible tool , first we have to complete the pre requisites Luke learning YAML language to create a inventory file. Ansible can't work on the older versions of linux as still many organisation does have their application on legacy environment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have automated the weblogic patching and deployment over different machines at the same time over one click onto weblogic tool.
Ansible tower has been key to our configuration management automation
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and integration to other 3rd party tools is seamless.
What do you dislike about the product?
The licensing is more expensive vs. other configuration platforms.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Ansible Tower to automate normal L1 troubleshooting responses dealing with customer outages and reported issues
Ansible Tower
What do you like best about the product?
Very configurable for scaling out infrastructure needs on a host level.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is lots of information out there, and not all of it can be useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Infrastructure need in deployment of new virtual host.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it and see where it gets you
Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
The Ansible software can upgrade web servers at one time at a time, and in its upgrade, it can remove the current web server from load balancing and disable it in its Nagios monitoring system. So, in a short time, I can manage complex tasks with ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
This tool can be installed and used on some Linux distributions like CentOS, Debian and Redhat Enterprise.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Compared to other automation tools such as Chef or Puppet, it is not necessary to install the Agent on nodes, and all nodes will be managed by a control machine via SSH.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ansible is a powerful and efficient open source tool for managing and configuring systems, extending programs, automating and synchronizing tasks, and more.
Simple IT Automation Tool
What do you like best about the product?
It easy to understand command line interface and it is a less number of commands in tool.easy to write a playbook without code knowledge also.it is simple IT automation Tool and it is open source tool.it manages number of hosts at a time.
What do you dislike about the product?
while writing a playbook using YMAL it validates indentation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we are using it for automation for our server configuration which saves a lot of time.
Ansible helps to make infrastructure development very Simple.
Ansible helps to make infrastructure development very Simple.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
it takes less time to implement in your organization .you can get all the documentation to learn about Ansible.
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.
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.
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