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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform pros and cons

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PROS

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is agentless, simplifying server management because it doesn't require agents to be installed on target machines.
The platform's automation capabilities enhance efficiency by streamlining tasks that previously required significant manual effort, allowing swift and accurate executions.
The YAML language enables straightforward code writing, making it accessible and understandable, which facilitates quick learning and deployment.
Ansible Tower assists in managing workflows, integrating well with systems and providing efficient inventory management and task automation.
The platform supports wide extensibility with numerous plugins and modules contributing to cloud provider interactions, scalability, and effective configuration management.

CONS

Ansible Automation Platform needs improved documentation, especially for installation and cloud integration.
Scalability is limited due to reliance on SSH sessions, affecting performance.
Credential types are insufficient, leading to limited options for integration.
Lack of support for AI and ML technologies in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform requires improved technical support and more comprehensive governance features.
 

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Pros review quotes

BW
Systems Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 6, 2017
There are no agents by default, so adding a new server is a matter of a couple lines of configuration (on a new server and the configuration master).
NA
Student at StarHub
Oct 5, 2018
The automation is the most valuable feature.
MJ
Senior Director Network Security at Oracle Corporation
Oct 21, 2018
This solution allows us to stitch a lot of different parts of the workflow together.
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SK
Solution Integrator at Kpco
Oct 21, 2018
The most useful features are the playbooks. We can develop our playbooks and simplify them doing something like a cross platform.
JG
Principal Engineer at CyberArk
Oct 21, 2018
The user interface is well-built and very easy to navigate around.
DT
Software Engineer at Arista
Oct 21, 2018
It is quick to production. It has an API in the back which allows for integrations.
EG
Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Oct 21, 2018
It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well.
LV
Co Founder at LIMESTONE NETWORKS INC
Oct 21, 2018
It has made our infrastructure more testable. We are able to build our infrastructure in CI, then are more confident in what we are deploying will work, not breaking everything.
CS
Senior Network Engineer at ePlus Technology
Oct 21, 2018
Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner.
SJ
Senior Software Developer at HCL Technologies
Oct 21, 2018
Since it is in YAML, if I have to explain it to somebody else, they can easily understand it.
 

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Cons review quotes

BW
Systems Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 6, 2017
Because Ansible is establishing SSH sessions to perform tasks, there is a limit on scalability.
NA
Student at StarHub
Oct 5, 2018
There needs to be improvement in the orchestration.
MJ
Senior Director Network Security at Oracle Corporation
Oct 21, 2018
It needs better documentation.
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SK
Solution Integrator at Kpco
Oct 21, 2018
The documentation for the installation step of deployment, OpenStack, etc., and these things have to be a bit more detailed.
JG
Principal Engineer at CyberArk
Oct 21, 2018
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.
DT
Software Engineer at Arista
Oct 21, 2018
The communication on it is not probably where it could be. We could use some real life examples where we could point customers to them and say, "This is what you are trying to do. If you follow these steps, it would at least get you started a bit quicker."
EG
Senior DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
Oct 21, 2018
In Community, there's a lot of effort towards testing, standardizing, and testing for module development to role development, which is why Molecule is now becoming real. Same thing with Zuul, which we are starting to implement. Zulu tests out modules from third-party sources, like ourselves, and verifies that the modules work before they are committed to the code. Currently, Ansible can't do this with all the modules out there.
LV
Co Founder at LIMESTONE NETWORKS INC
Oct 21, 2018
For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation.
CS
Senior Network Engineer at ePlus Technology
Oct 21, 2018
Some of the Cisco modules could be expanded, which would be great, along with not having to do so much coding in the background to make it work.
SJ
Senior Software Developer at HCL Technologies
Oct 21, 2018
One problem that I'm facing right now is the mismatch between the new version of Python and Ansible. Sometimes it's Python 2, and sometimes it's Python 3. When things get a bit dicey, I wish that Ansible would solve this issue by itself. I don't want to have to specify if it is Python 3 or version 2.