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Perforce Puppet vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Perforce Puppet

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/APuppet Enteprise is an IT automation and configuration management solution that enables users to manage and automate infrastructure and complex workflows. The vendor states Puppet Enterprise combines both model‑based and task-based capabilities in a way that enables organizations to scale their multi-cloud infrastructure as their automation footprint grows, with more flexibility from both agent-based and agentless capabilities.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
    Perforce PuppetAnsible
    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
    Perforce PuppetAnsible
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Perforce PuppetAnsible
    Considered Both Products
    Perforce Software
    Chose Perforce Puppet
    As I mentioned before Ansible is a great tool. There is no question about it. It has very simple syntax (YAML), is very easy to learn, and is scalable as well. But the only thing that Ansible lacked at that time was the actual agent that have to go into each server. Ansible …
    Incentivized
    Chose Perforce Puppet
    [Both] products are comparable. There is a good open source community for each, but we found Puppet to be the most mature for our specific use case.
    Incentivized
    Chose Perforce Puppet
    I have not used any other Configuration Management System since cfengine back in about 2007 so I have little current input on alternatives to Puppet having never used them, though Chef seems to have gained some traction as has Ansible.
    Incentivized
    Chose Perforce Puppet
    Puppet has a very wide user base with many organizations tht support it as well as conferences and events. Puppet DSL is based in Ruby while the server is now in Clojure providing ease of configuration with the power of scale. Puppet is a great entry point into the world of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Perforce Puppet
    We evaluated Chef and Ansible. Puppet Data Center Automation was cleaner and we were more familiar with the product.
    Incentivized
    Red Hat
    Chose Ansible
    Puppet has Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform beat on metrics. This isn't a fair comparison due to the agent oriented nature of puppet. Ansible is much smoother to start using and appreciably faster to install, configure and role into small groups of systems. I no longer use …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    it is easier to code and operate with AAP
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    One of these is already included in our license and the other is not. The agent based model makes access management to servers simpler. The agentless model makes things more flexible and secure for large organizations
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Puppet has more features, lower costs, and greater flexibility.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    AAP delivered a more complete solution at all steps of our process across different silos.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    AAP is much easier to use/configure/maintain.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    We were Puppet users. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform made more sense to us because of the focus on Ansible content to support our AIX systems and RHEL systems. We have also seen that the learning curve for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is better than we experienced …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Ansible is much easier to use and configure than Puppet.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    • Push Based Approach
    • Easy to right Code
    • Fast Setup & Upgrade
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    It was much simpler to deploy and use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in our enterprise environment. Red Hat has great training to get our users up to speed. YAML is easy to write (although watch out for spacing) and run playbooks. We can easily generate infrastructure …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    My experience with Puppet and Chef is limited, but as a total non-programmer Ansible was just worlds easier for me to implement.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Ansible is much easier than Puppet, more enterprises are switching from Puppet to Ansible due to ease of use. Ansible has integration modules which allow you to transition from Puppet or Chef to Ansible. IT Automation space has a CAGR of 200%+ what are you doing to not get left …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Ansible has unique features in terms of server managing and configuring. It is easy to use and fits the Red Hat Linux well since they are closely related. Our servers are mostly Red Hat, so it makes sense to use Ansible. But we are still exploring which is the best.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Ansible is a great product, which we really love as it is compatible running along side and with other DevOps tool. The integration features allows other teams to participate in our shared objective. Ansible is easy to use as many programmers are familiar with Python and RHEL. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    In the time of integration, we chose Ansible instead of Puppet because it was simpler to use, based on Python and didn't require additional server environments to run. Of course, there are a lot of different alternatives like Chef or Salt Stack.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Ansible is sufficient for our purposes because our configurations are relatively simple. Chef and Puppet would work better for more complex configurations. Also, our applications are deployed using Docker which simplifies our configuration requirements. An organization with …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    I haven't used Puppet personally, but I believe Ansible is a robust solution which can serve many purposes. Puppet I'm sure is customizable in similar ways, I just don't have the experience to speak intelligently on the subject.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    I have used Puppet, Chef during my career and Ansible seems to be the most efficient tool by far, in terms of its implementation, configuration and ease of use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    All three of these competitors are agent based. I did not want an additional service that needed to run absolutely everywhere. I also did not want to maintain a load balanced cluster of master servers that grows in resource requirements as your infrastructure scales.
    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
    Perforce PuppetAnsible
    Configuration Management
    Comparison of Configuration Management features of Perforce Puppet and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    Feature
    Perforce Puppet
    -
    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
    Perforce PuppetAnsible
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.5
    (108 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (5 ratings)