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Excellent devops tool
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is extremely flexible with dozens if not hundreds of modules, including powershell
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve is a little steep if you’ve never used a tool like this before, but it’s something you could pick up over a day or two
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Weekly and daily repetitive tasks that usually take several hours now take us about 5 minutes
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take a good couple days to evaluate all the processes and scripts you run on a regular basis. Chances are they can all be setup in Ansible
Automation... Ansible makes it a breeze
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to learn, fast to implement, no need to have various agents installed in your remote servers - a simple SSH connection can serve you, installation is a breeze - pip/apt/brew - any package manager of your choice, though Ansible itself is written in python, you don't need to learn python to use Ansible, uses human-friendly yaml syntax (eye-candy), easily integrates with most cloud infra providers, ever growing modules, easy management of tasks (modules), guarantees idempotency
What do you dislike about the product?
Ansible is not yet mature to accept python3
Ansible uses Jinja2 as a part of its templating system. Hence, not knowing the jinja DSL can hurt you back
Ansible uses Jinja2 as a part of its templating system. Hence, not knowing the jinja DSL can hurt you back
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
deployment
orchestration
automation
configuration management
patch management
orchestration
automation
configuration management
patch management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Each of the tools have been created to solve a different type of business need. What Ansible had to offer us is different from what it has to offer other businesses. Hence, it is advisable to other users to first know the business problem they are trying to solve and assess how Ansible fits in that place.
Similarly, if you think you need to learn python to use Ansible, don't be discouraged, you don't need to. Well, it helps to extend modules if you do know python fundamentals.
Similarly, if you think you need to learn python to use Ansible, don't be discouraged, you don't need to. Well, it helps to extend modules if you do know python fundamentals.
My review for ansible
What do you like best about the product?
Role system is very helpful to write reusable tasks and playbooks. Furthermore, Ansible supports many cloud instances. For example, openstack, amazon(aws).
What do you dislike about the product?
at first, it is hard to understand logic of playbooks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
software deployment to openstack cloud.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ansible has many features including cloud instances(openstack, aws). Furthermore, ansible it is helpful to reuse your own playbooks using role.
One of the best configuration management tool
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, Yaml based language, pre-existing modules to do lot of actual work
What do you dislike about the product?
Actually nothing, I have not faced any cons yet with this product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Configuration management and deployment automation
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it, you will absolutely love it
Ansible is the best
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is to create repeatable playbooks for any situation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only complaint I would have is that sometimes the command line commands get a bit long.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Ansible to create and update servers.
Manage configuration effortlessly
What do you like best about the product?
This text describes a system or tool that does not require agents to function. It operates over SSH (Secure Shell) and has the capability to reverse its methodology from pushing to pulling by using Ansible Pull. It is purely based on Ansible and supports dynamic inventory management.
What do you dislike about the product?
If your playbook or role fails at the very last step, the next re-run will repeat all the steps from the beginning. Although Ansible is idempotent, this process wastes a lot of time in large environments. You can tackle this issue using tags, but they need to be added when creating the playbook.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have used Ansible to configure my application and used it to generate the CMDB by collecting the facts generated by Ansible.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ansible is a great configuration management tool. I used the open-source version of it. It's simply awesome. Write your manifest in a YAML file and just deploy it. Since there is no agent and master server concept, your system will not have a single point of failure or additional resource usage on the client side. It just needs SSH, that's it.
I used Ansible not only for deploying servers but also for collecting and gathering facts from remote machines and used it as a CMDB (Configuration Management Database).
I used Ansible not only for deploying servers but also for collecting and gathering facts from remote machines and used it as a CMDB (Configuration Management Database).
A usable solution - however not the best
What do you like best about the product?
Having config files you can version control is a brilliant plus. It lets teams collaborate and keep track of their playbooks.
What do you dislike about the product?
The tooling is built in python and in my experience very flakey. Running playbooks is very unintuitive and there's a fairly large barrier to entry.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provisioning applications and machines. Ansible allowed us to automate this.
Really Enjoy Ansible
What do you like best about the product?
The syntax is very easy, I typically use YAML for all of my application configuration so I'm happy Ansible uses YAML.
It's great that I can run playbooks against servers just over SSH, I don't have to install any agents on the remote servers.
I like how everything just describes what the desired state is and it works idempotently.
We had previously worked with Chef and Puppet and Ansible by far has been the easiest for us to get up and running.
We started out with configuration generated by http://phansible.com/ which helped us get up and running quickly.
It's great that I can run playbooks against servers just over SSH, I don't have to install any agents on the remote servers.
I like how everything just describes what the desired state is and it works idempotently.
We had previously worked with Chef and Puppet and Ansible by far has been the easiest for us to get up and running.
We started out with configuration generated by http://phansible.com/ which helped us get up and running quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
We had a developer running on Windows and we were unable to get it working. Had to jump through some hoops to get that developer onboard.
We tried using Cygwin which is what tutorials on the net suggested, but we were unable to get it to work. We were using it with Vagrant so it's possible it's an issue with Vagrant and Ansible on Windows. This developer was able to get Vagrant running with Puppet.
We tried using Cygwin which is what tutorials on the net suggested, but we were unable to get it to work. We were using it with Vagrant so it's possible it's an issue with Vagrant and Ansible on Windows. This developer was able to get Vagrant running with Puppet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Initially, it was only for configuring vagrant development boxes. Recently we've started experimenting with using it to configure our VPSs. It's coming along very nicely.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ansible has been great for us. It can be tricky if you have developers using Windows. We are a PHP shop so we found the site http://phansible.com/ to be a great asset to get a starting set of configuration.
Have worked on Ansible
What do you like best about the product?
Ansible is an IT automation tool. We used it in our Openstack environment to deploy VMs and configure the system. It is written in python so makes it easier to work with. It is also easy to install on the workstation or laptop or even on another VM.
What do you dislike about the product?
Havent worked deeply on Ansible to figure out the downfall of the tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use ansible in conjunction with Vagrant to deploy Openstack environment and also VMs in that environment using a software instead of manually deploying it. It is a very powerful tool which helps in automating the task and hence helps in reducing the human errors.
Configuration Management - Ansible
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and very efficient way to work in a team. Bring lots of productivity with this tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike, but as the new technology evolves, this tool needs to be upgraded.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Telecommunications. Configuration management is the benefit I have realized.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Configuration Management
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