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Flux vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Flux
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Managed File Transfer (MFT) (25th), Workload Automation (27th)
Red Hat Ansible Automation ...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
Release Automation (3rd), Configuration Management (1st), Network Automation (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Flux and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Flux is designed for Managed File Transfer (MFT) and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, up 0.6% compared to last year.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Configuration Management, holds 10.3% mindshare, down 17.2% since last year.
Managed File Transfer (MFT) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Flux1.8%
GoAnywhere MFT8.5%
MOVEit7.0%
Other82.7%
Managed File Transfer (MFT)
Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform10.3%
Microsoft Configuration Manager7.4%
HashiCorp Terraform7.3%
Other75.0%
Configuration Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user4080 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Lightweight and extensible with great support staff
* Lightweight * Uses java standards * Can run in j2se or j2ee environments * Can run as embedded or standalone * Works with multiple db or in-memory * Great support staff * Extensible * Cluster(able) * Can integrate and be a major player in any SOA environmentFlux has made excellent design choices the benefits of which can be passed down to customers in terms of price and capability. I don't see any IT vendor rival this.
Manas Kashyap - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Dev Ops Engineer at 11 East Capital
Automation has transformed server patching and has reduced months of work to minutes
The best features that Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers is that it does not require any additional resources inside the servers. Python is the only requirement, and since Python is already present inside the servers, we can run it from our location and it automatically deploys things and does the work for us. The minimal requirements and easy deployment have definitely impacted my daily work and my team's efficiency. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is one of the best features that we depend on. We have evaluated other options, but Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform was the best choice because it has saved us a tremendous amount of time. We do not need to manually intervene in the servers or install third-party software to maintain these things. It is very easy to write playbooks for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Ansible Galaxy contains many playbooks that are readily available and ready to be used. It is highly configurable with Jinja templating, making it easy to maintain. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has positively impacted my organization. Previously, we needed to go into the servers and maintain them manually, which used to take a lot of time. For 200 to 300 servers, the maintenance took about one to two months. New patches would arrive and we would have to repeat the process. Now, it is a one-night work or a 10 to 15 minutes task. We write a playbook, maintain an inventory, and roll out the updates and it starts working for us. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform uses conditional clauses and has rollback options, functioning like a standard coding language that is simple to use. There is definitely a reduction in errors with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform because we have playbooks written with all the necessary clauses and rollback options. Manual work automatically creates more errors, whereas in automation, we have written sets that we do not forget every time we run it. We have protected written sets that we execute consistently.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Excellent customer support"
"Flux has made excellent design choices the benefits of which can be passed down to customers in terms of price and capability."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is quite stable. If you set it up correctly with the right configurations and there are no hiccups during installation and deployment, it will be stable. I'd give stability a rating of eight out of ten."
"I like Ansible because it is: Easy to use, easy to read, easy to maintain, easy to support, and it works without an agent."
"The automation capabilities streamline deployment processes, providing reliability and reducing manual intervention and errors."
"The Organizations feature, where I can give clear silos and hand them over to different teams, that's amazing; everybody says that it's their own Tower. It's like they have their own Tower out there."
"The capacity to install products on the operating system is very valuable."
"The most useful features are the playbooks; we can develop our playbooks and simplify them, doing something like a cross platform."
"The initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete."
"The beauty of Ansible is the easy ramp-up to get started."
 

Cons

"It would be nice to have more file transform capabilities for transforming xml and csv documents."
"Need a better way to track a particular work item through multiple, independent workflows."
"It can use some more credential types. I've found that when I go looking for a certain credential type, such as private keys, they're not really there."
"Ansible could use more public relations and marketing."
"In modern infrastructure, there are more than just servers. The initial server-centric approach in Ansible is a bit strange."
"There is always room for improvement in features or customer support."
"We would like support for the post-integration of this product before cloud frameworks because right now their approach is to avoid using on-premises activities and move everything to the cloud."
"In my opinion, one thing that needs improvement is mass updates: How I can parallelize that process a little bit better?"
"Ansible can face scalability issues, such as limitations when trying to scale up infrastructure. It might struggle with connection dropping or spawning additional VMs under certain conditions."
"The web GUI can be a little bit better. There should be a couple of more features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Everything is generally fair. No one ever likes to pay a lot of money, but we are getting the value. We also get support with it. It has been fair and worthwhile."
"It’s an open-source tool."
"The pricing for us is huge because we use twenty thousand nodes, so that is a huge infrastructure, but if someone is using a small infrastructure, then the pricing is not so much."
"The cost is high, but it still works well."
"Ansible Tower is pretty expensive."
"We're charged between $8 to $13 a month per license."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an affordable solution."
"If you only need to use Ansible, it's free for any end-user, but when you require Ansible Tower, you need to pay per Ansible Tower server."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
6%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business25
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise52
 

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Ansible, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Subscription on AWS
 

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