Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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

Its easier to integrate and deploy than other similar solutions. also, other alternatives like CDA by broadcom are not stable.- it provides deep automation capabilities which remove manual processes in IT workflow, it has centralized access control

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Great support because of association with redhat. OS administration became lot easier than before. Also, it has simple YAML structure for newbies to adapt

What do you dislike most about this product?

Role based access control is complex and becomes difficult to implement for a newbie.Ansible tower job scheduling needs more modules like view all jobs etc.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Dev teams can use this product with ease and usage for a linux admin is pretty easy because of the redhat support and the documentation reference.

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

Complete automation solution that covers the entire IT lifecycle, from infrastructure provisioning and configuration to application deployment and management.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform utilizes Playbooks, which are written in YAML, a human-readable language. This makes it easier for non-technical users to understand and contribute to automation tasks, fostering collaboration between IT operations and other departments.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Integration with third-party tools could be further enhanced to provide a more unified automation experience across a wider range of IT environments.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Evaluate how well Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform integrates with your existing systems. Consider the need for additional integration tools or adapters to ensure seamless communication between the platform and your IT landscape.

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

I find it attractive to grant management authority flexibly depending on the members' skills. We give read and configuration change permission according to our understanding of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Also, for members of other teams, authority is managed so that they cannot reference the workflow template created by their team. In addition, it is a simple and easy-to-understand system that can easily create workflow and job templates.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Simple configurations can be made using a configuration file in YAML format. Readability is guaranteed when checking the contents of the design created by others, so there are few problems later. The high extensibility of functions using the Ansible Galaxy library is attractive. While a certain amount of learning costs are required, a properly prepared environment with Ansible reduces stress on infrastructure engineers. It can be expected to reduce costs and improve speed in all aspects, such as operation, administration and development. Consider starting with automation.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Although the documentation is extensive, there are some areas where detailed explanations are lacking, and many sites are difficult to understand unless you learn them yourself. I believe that more people will be able to understand the appeal of Ansible if the explanations for beginners and usage examples based on actual practices are enriched.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

One of the most noticeable effects was the significant reduction in work time. I was able to reduce labor time by approximately 2 hours per day. We will continue to promote automation in other products so that we can expect greater efficiency. The exact configuration can be applied to multiple servers, reducing administration costs from a few small servers to over a thousand servers. By automating provisioning, the number of person-hours developers require to configure the development environment can be reduced, which is expected to reduce development costs and improve development speed.