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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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
    Ansible
    Editions & Modules
    Basic Tower
    5,000
    per year
    Enterprise Tower
    10,000
    per year
    Premium Tower
    14,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Ansible
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Ansible
    Considered Both Products
    Red Hat
    Chose Ansible
    I've evaluated Puppet and Chef and they're not as good as Ansible.
    Incentivized
    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
    more geared towards infrastructure automation, more in depth Ansible workflows
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Red Hat Ansible is my first
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Solar Winds orian has a lot of features but its only geared toward automation like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Answer for bove:
    IBM Integrated Web Services:
    Clunky. Slow UI. Hard to find and track jobs.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    AAP compares favorably with Terraform and Power Automate. I don't have much experience with Terraform, but I find AAP and Ansible easier to use as well as having more capabilities. Power Platform is also an excellent automation tool that is user friendly but I feel that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    it is easier to code and operate with AAP
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Similar platform - stable
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Ansible is agentless and using SSH so sometimes when the SSH is down we are using since Tanium it is agent base app we using Tanium l to get to the serverand before we were using SALT
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    Red Hat Ansible is the best
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    It is our most used product
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    We use satellite for inventory purposess
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    I think terraform has some overlap with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and what determines which tool would be best will depend on how much can be pushed to the far left vs needing to be flexible or dynamic post deployment
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Ansible
    Configuration Management
    Comparison of Configuration Management features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    Feature
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    8.6
    44 Ratings
    Infrastructure Automation9.244 Ratings
    Automated Provisioning8.841 Ratings
    Parallel Execution8.840 Ratings
    Node Management8.432 Ratings
    Reporting & Logging7.841 Ratings
    Version Control8.738 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Ansible
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (108 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (5 ratings)