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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform vs. Salt Project

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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

    Salt

    Score6.2 out of 10
    N/ABuilt on Python, Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. Salt is used to automate common infrastructure administration tasks and ensure that all the components of infrastructure are operating in a consistent desired state.N/A
    Pricing
    AnsibleSalt
    Editions & Modules
    Basic Tower
    5,000
    per year
    Enterprise Tower
    10,000
    per year
    Premium Tower
    14,000
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AnsibleSalt
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    AnsibleSalt
    Considered Both Products
    Red Hat
    Chose Ansible
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform requires little to no configuration on the nodes to manage the systems. However, this means that the inventory source of Truth must come from somewhere else. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is able to manage things beyond typical nodes …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ansible
    AAP doesn't truly stack up against any of the products mentioned except for Aria Automation. But, it is extensible and open and has a lower cost to entry.
    Incentivized
    Open Source
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    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
    AnsibleSalt
    Configuration Management
    Comparison of Configuration Management features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Salt Project
    Feature
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    8.6
    44 Ratings
    Salt Project
    -
    Ratings
    Infrastructure Automation9.244 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Provisioning8.841 Ratings00 Ratings
    Parallel Execution8.840 Ratings00 Ratings
    Node Management8.432 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Logging7.841 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version Control8.738 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    AnsibleSalt
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (108 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)