--- description: Review of Ansible Automation Platform Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Ansible Automation Platform | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Continuous Integration Tools](/directory/4694/continuous-integration/software) > [Ansible Automation Platform](/software/183001/ansible-automation-platform) # Ansible Automation Platform Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/183001/ansible-automation-platform Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/183001/ansible-automation-platform?page=2) > Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a cloud-based IT automation tool, which assists businesses of all sizes with system configuration, cloud provisioning, application deployment and various other tasks. The automation services catalog allows administrators to delegate resources to developers while applying policy and governance. Team members can request new automation projects and monitor the requested services by date placed or approval statuses. Using the dashboard, managers can aggregate and analyze data, generate reports on deployment statuses and view pending or failed tasks. It also lets users request a module within a task, correct automation behaviors and determine when non-stateful commands get used. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform offers integration with multiple third-party applications such as Arista, Jenkins, Microsoft Azure, Splunk and more. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via documentation, phone and forums. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 9 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 9 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Red Hat ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Per Feature - **Pricing Details**: Please contact Red Hat for pricing details. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Activity Dashboard - Alerts/Escalation - Alerts/Notifications - Approval Process Control - Automated Testing - Compliance Management - Configuration Management - Dashboard - For Developers - Lifecycle Management - Monitoring - Multi-User Collaboration - Performance Metrics - Pipeline Management - Policy Management - Reporting & Statistics - Reporting/Analytics - Repository Management ## Integrations (7 total) - CyberArk Privileged Access Management Solutions - Google Cloud - Jenkins - Microsoft Azure - Splunk Enterprise - Travis CI - Workspace ONE ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support ## Category - [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4694/continuous-integration/software) ## Related Categories - [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4694/continuous-integration/software) - [DevOps Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4380/devops/software) - [Configuration Tools Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4653/configuration-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Specially Microsoft shops that are used to GUIs. - One of my favorite features is that ansible is agentless unlike other tools like Chef or SCCM and the reason for this is that Ansible pushes config and doesn't need to rely on the client having the agent installed, checking back for new configs (like GPOs) or having to update the agent. - The platform allows for governance of the collections to use and comes with RHEL certified collections installed for third party integrations so you know you are using vetted modules. - I like to see the report on the most used modules so I know and can compare with the team's tickets and workload so you can also go in the galaxy and see if there are other complementing or better collections. - Role based access and wizard like playbooks helps to add even non-admins and less experienced users since they can only get access to specific playbooks that simply ask questions and the platform passes the answers to the playbooks. - The API makes it easy to integrate with other products like ServiceNow or Azure DevOps by passing values and triggering each other. - The VSCode extension is great to write playbooks with hints and auto corrections > > **Cons**: The support for Windows has improved over the years and I have been able to even transition clients to use Ansible for most of their windows tasks but for Microsoft shops is harder to adapt. Maybe more webinars and comparisons on how Ansible complements Powershell DSC or is a better platform than SCCM or other config managers. > > Ansible by itself can be challenging for Microsoft shops used to GUIs but the Automation Platform resolves this. I have worked with clients and reduced processes from days to minutes which can be done with scripting but the best part about Ansible Automation Platform is that you can hand off the automated workflow to the I.T. team with full understanding on how to run and monitor the playbooks. ----- ### "Easy to use configuration management and automation solution for complete administrative scope" — 4.0/5 > **Marcin** | *12 October 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Easy to use, yaml expected status oriented coding approach, using basic SSH and similar underlying communication protocols/tools, basically requires only python on targets, highly expandable through plugins and community collections. > > **Cons**: Requires heavy python installation on each target (which can also introduce vulnerabilities), expects passwordless connection be possible between server or control node and targets, for more administrative tasks systems/targets need to be setup with correct permissions a priori. > > It's easy to use and comprehend on the code/configuration development side, interfaces well with SCMs and with specific infrastructure tools/solutions. Idempotency oriented approach allows describing expected status that the tool then attempts be set/reached. ----- ### "The best configuration management tool" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *9 August 2022* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Ansible is excellent in automating the host machines where my applications have been installed. I can add or negate any prerequisites to all the host machines. Hence it reduces our repetitive work. > > **Cons**: It's great but dynamic inventory needs more time to be spent or else we cannot understand it. > > It's a great software with so many features like roles, vault, playbook, inventory etc. So a person need to utilise all the tools to use ansible to the fullest. ----- ### "Creation of rk8s cluster with longhorn on vCloud platform" — 5.0/5 > **Antonino** | *13 December 2024* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: Great range of plugin for all cases on IT tasks, more easy than other automation tools when you master it > > **Cons**: need a mid/base experience of coding or read many pages of documentations for make a functional automation task > > We use Ansible for the delivery of clusters rk8s with longhorn on vCloud platform whith the use of yaml files. at first we take many time to create the script and conf files, about 20 days with no code experience, but when all file was ready we create all the kubernetes enviroment on 2 hours. very good thing. ----- ### "A Must Have Tool for Every Sysadmin and Developers" — 5.0/5 > **Neil** | *22 May 2023* | Information Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Ansible is a handy configuration management tool for IT professionals. It's a very flexible software to configure your environment with a single command. It's very easy to get hands on, and if you're not familiar with the playbooks, there're thousands of templates available to use. Ansible Galaxy is such a platform to offer various templates that were created by community members, so anyone can grab and go.Ansible is also an open source software, so everyone can play with it for free. For enterprise users, they can upgrade it to Ansible Tower to enable more cool functions. > > **Cons**: It's recommended to work with Git (code controlling). However, it's not integrated with Ansible.You can only run one job at a time.Need some efforts on studying jinja language if you want to master Ansible. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/183001/ansible-automation-platform?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/183001/ansible-automation-platform) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data