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Industry standard automation for everyone
What do you like best about the product?
It's very approachable, easy to go from ideas to working solutions in no time!
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the enterprise features are a bit heavy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sitting side-by-side with Puppet, Ansible fills in for ad-hoc changes where Puppet handles base state management.
Redhat ansible review | awesome tool for configuration management
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing about this tool is the comfortabilty and ability to connect with remote server and do the task we need to do with the help of playbook.
What do you dislike about the product?
It limited capabilities to connect with windows OS.
With redhat OS its easy but to configure to connect with windows is a bit tricky.
With redhat OS its easy but to configure to connect with windows is a bit tricky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Deployment on remote server is too easy with the help of ansible and as we have to install monitoring agent in remote 1000 server and it makes it way easy just a simple playbook and our work get completed within no time
One of the best configuration management DevOps tool that can be integrated with almost every tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like it's the large number of plugins available to complete my job and its idempotent nature.
What do you dislike about the product?
No dislike till now as it has helped a lot to complete my job.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
To automate the things through various scripting like automate AD, Infra and more.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Please go for it to Automate your infra and security task.
Ansible makes sysadmin and sys building SOOOO Easy!
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how ansible already knows about how to deal with different platform-specific issues. I can use it for RedHat/CentOS as well as Debian/Ubuntu management and buids. I manage lots of different cloud-based servers, as well as physical servers in different infrastructure. Ansible is intelligent enough and powerful enough for me to write automatic build scripts that handle a variety of chores for me. If I do my part to think ahead and design the ansible script properly, it easy does its part to perform the tasks I give it.
What do you dislike about the product?
For whatever reason, I still don't find the YML syntax as intuitive. I would much rather prefer a structured form like a C struct or XML tagged structure. But that's just me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I manage a LOT of platforms. At peak, I had over 1500 machines out in the wild at various cloud and physical infrastructure points. With ansible, I was able to finally take control of uniform system management tasks like adding users, applying patches, distributing code, testing code, etc across all of those end points, without having to individually login to each one.
Deployment made easy
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is one of the best deployment tools out there that can deploy almost all different technology from C/C++ to all the latest stack like AWS, microservices etc. so you don't need to juggle between the tools and deploy everything via ansible, it has capability to generate analytics as well on you job and creates a dashboard for the same. Easy to use and reuse the job for different environment using extra variables. Also you can have logging with different verbosity when troubleshooting. You can use same playbook for multiple component using the project and need not write playbook for each and every repo. You can interact with ansible using api exposed by it to speed up your automation
What do you dislike about the product?
In order to scale you need to have good infrastructure else performance will be impacted. We deploy thousands of components and in order to scale had to create multiple instances of ansible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed a tools that can be used for deployment for a variety of technology from legacy to modern technology suites. We are able to achieve the synergy and centralize all the deployments and also able to achieve continues deployment by invoking ansible api
Ansible is one stop shop for all automation needs
What do you like best about the product?
Can cover basically all parts of automation, be it Infrastructure as code, Application deployments or security automation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Basically, there is nothing to dislike about ansible
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation! We were able to eliminate multiple tools we used and started using Ansible for almost everything, for both our cloud as well as on-prem infrastructure.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The Inbuild modules basically can cover everything you need. but, if it doesn't, you can build your own.
Ansible Automation is Powerful
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is designed to be very simple, reliable and consistent. It lets you quickly deploy and easily deploy multitier apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
A new Ansible user will take certain time to understand how to use this platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used to solve problems regarding deployment of the applications. The benefits of this Ansible automation is once we know how easy it is to manage and configure then it becomes very easy for our next deployments.
Best Configuration Management tool for Infrastructure Automation/Configuration
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy to use and very powerful tool in todays IT world. Redhat provide Ansible Tower REST APIs as well so that It can be integrated with multiple other tools as well. Managing 1000s of nodes is just a piece of cake.
What do you dislike about the product?
No Major cons as this is the best automation tool, I have worked with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
daily issues in productions like configuring of linux and windows servers with different packages and doing configuration changes for IT needs. Deployment of applications etc.
Had a very "easy and efficent to use" experience
What do you like best about the product?
the best part I like about ansible is that it is very easy to use. internal SSH connection does not let us worry about connectivity . I have used ansible to deploy scripts and retrieving logs from a remote machine. I have also used ansible to create AWS EC2 instances.
the thing that I like the most is that the documentation provided by the ansible team for every bit of work. its really helpful.
the thing that I like the most is that the documentation provided by the ansible team for every bit of work. its really helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ansible does not tracks the dependencies . hence it keeps on executing and stops when there is a failure or error without proper error messages. This feature is provided by other automation tools in the market.
ansible generally provides a command line interface .A graphical user interface would make the work lot more easier.
ansible generally provides a command line interface .A graphical user interface would make the work lot more easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
previously I was using putty for remote connections and I used to transfer the scripts using "scp" or "ftp" and then I ran the scripts manually. but ansible made is easy as we could create a yml file, define all the tasks in the yml file and prove as may as remote machine details in the host file. Ansible handled the whole task very smoothly and ran did the whole process on all the machines at the same time saving efforts and time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
ansible is new to market hence you might find it complicated but its simpler than other automation tools present In market and the ansible team has already provided a huge number of document to help.
Amazing automation tool
What do you like best about the product?
it is agent less make it easy to use it, NON-IT person can use Ansible’s playbooks,it useful for IT orchestrating and deployment
What do you dislike about the product?
We can't do execute tasks parallel and custom module is hard to debug.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am automation developer, i uses to deploy infra on cloud platform, testcases testing automation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Yes, Use Ansible for repetitive tasks
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