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HashiCorp Vagrant vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HashiCorp Vagrant

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AVagrant is a tool designed to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. It leverages a declarative configuration file which describes all software requirements, packages, operating system configuration, and users.N/A

    Ansible

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AThe Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.

    $5,000

    per year

    Pricing
    HashiCorp VagrantAnsible
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic Tower
    5,000
    per year
    Enterprise Tower
    10,000
    per year
    Premium Tower
    14,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HashiCorp VagrantAnsible
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HashiCorp VagrantAnsible
    Considered Both Products
    HashiCorp
    Chose HashiCorp Vagrant
    By default Vagrant uses VirtualBox but compared to using VirtualBox directly, I've found using Vagrant makes things easier. For one, you can commit your Vagrant configuration to GitHub and manage changes that way. I'm not sure how you'd handle updated virtual machines to all …
    Incentivized
    Red Hat
    Chose Ansible
    SaltStack's syntax and configuration felt a little too much like "black magic" for reliability. Several third-party packages were referenced by name only and either hid or obfuscated how they installed their dependencies (or were targeting only one distribution of Linux and …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    HashiCorp VagrantAnsible
    Configuration Management
    Comparison of Configuration Management features of HashiCorp Vagrant and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    Feature
    HashiCorp Vagrant
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    8.6
    44 Ratings
    Infrastructure Automation00 Ratings9.244 Ratings
    Automated Provisioning00 Ratings8.841 Ratings
    Parallel Execution00 Ratings8.840 Ratings
    Node Management00 Ratings8.432 Ratings
    Reporting & Logging00 Ratings7.841 Ratings
    Version Control00 Ratings8.738 Ratings
    User Ratings
    HashiCorp VagrantAnsible
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.5
    (108 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (5 ratings)