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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Composite Score

7.1 /10

CX Score

6.9 /10

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What is Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

Red Hat® Ansible® Automation is automation software powered by Red Hat Ansible Engine—an execution engine with hundreds of modules that can automate all aspects of IT environments and processes—and Red Hat Ansible Tower—a management interface that can integrate with other services.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

84 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+71 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

10% Negative

15% Neutral

75% Positive

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Trustworthy
Saves Time
Fair

Cons

Less Generous

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Multi Tenancy

Dynamic Scalability

Scripting Support

Configuration Management

Resource Definition

Service Templates

Systems Administration

Resource Availability

Workflow Support

Agent or Agentless

Task Process Automation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Reviews

Uday A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

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Submitted Oct 2024

Easy to Implement and works best in Linux

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform from other similar products?

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform distinguishes itself from other similar products by offering a comprehensive, enterprise-grade solution with robust features like extensive content libraries, strong security focus, scalable deployment options, and dedicated enterprise support from Red Hat, making it ideal for large-scale automation across complex IT environments, while still maintaining the simplicity and ease-of-use of the underlying Ansible technology; unlike many open-source alternatives, it provides a fully managed and supported automation platform for organizations looking to scale their automation initiatives effectively

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Enterprise-grade support: Red Hat provides dedicated support for the platform, ensuring stability, security updates, and compatibility across diverse environments. Extensive content collections: Access to a vast library of pre-built modules and roles from Red Hat and its partners, covering a wide range of technologies and use cases. Scalability and flexibility:

What do you dislike most about this product?

Limited availability on Windows, needs to have ansible tower for schedule runs

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Ease of Use: Ansible is often praised for its user-friendly syntax and agentless architecture, making it relatively easy to learn and implement compared to other options. Community Support: Ansible has a large and active community, which translates to readily available documentation, modules, and support forums. Scalability: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is designed to scale well for large enterprise environments with advanced features for role-based access control and centralized management.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Trustworthy
Fair
Client's Interest First

Cons

Inhibits Innovation
Commodity Features
Less Effective Service

Akalezi T.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Easy to deploy

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform from other similar products?

Ansible is relatively easy to implement. As long as you can make an SSH connect to the node, you are good.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The .yaml dependency. I learned yaml because of Ansible and kickstarted my transition to devops from there

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing to be honest

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Go for it

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Sai krishna M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Insurance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2024

Excellent Product

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform from other similar products?

ease of integration and system administration

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

wide range of features and excellent support from client services team

What do you dislike most about this product?

not applicable

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The ease of using the product and wide variety of features with respect to system administration ,cross-platform support , multi-cloud tenancy support from the client.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ratings

84 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+71 Net Emotional Footprint

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Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Multi Tenancy Software works in tandem with hosting system and the management of the multiple systems running in the same environment with appropriate levels of segregation.

Dynamic Scalability Ability to scale servers up or down, depending on resource requirements. This activity may be automated, triggered by conditions, or be completely manual.

Scripting Support Support for systems scripting languages such as Python and Java to further automate operating systems level tasks.

Configuration Management Tracking of server configuration and configuration changes.

Resource Definition The systems administrator defines resources needed for the new server definition, which is processed and deployed by the Orchestration/Provisioning software.

Service Templates Templates for standard server configurations, to allow for expedited provisioning and deployment of standard server types.

Systems Administration Tools allowing the systems administration of multiple servers through a single tool, to reduce repetitive task execution.

Resource Availability Orchestration/Provisioning software must be able to allocate resources for new server requests so that compute, memory and storage is not over-provisioned.

Workflow Support The ability to incorporate pre-defined workflows into provisioned servers.

Agent or Agentless The orchestration, provisioning, deployment and management of servers being done with or without a software agent.

Task Process Automation Automation of tasks and processes of the Orchestration/Provisioning software without systems administration intervention.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Reviews

Uday A.

Easy to Implement and works best in Linux

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Akalezi T.

Easy to deploy

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sai krishna M.

Excellent Product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Multi Tenancy

Dynamic Scalability

Scripting Support

Configuration Management

Resource Definition

Service Templates

Systems Administration

Resource Availability

Workflow Support

Agent or Agentless

Task Process Automation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Quality of Features

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training