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Users consistently praise the ease of use and agentless architecture of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, highlighting its ability to simplify complex automation tasks across various environments. The platform's flexibility allows teams to automate processes efficiently, reducing manual errors and improving productivity. However, some users note a common limitation in the steep learning curve for new users, particularly when dealing with advanced features.

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Prasanth K.
PK
Enterprise Architect | Cloud Transformation Leader | Driving Multi-Cloud Strategy, Solutions | DevSecOps Excellence | Innovation Resilient Infrastructure at Scale
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Consistent, Scalable Automation That Boosts Stability and Efficiency"
What do you like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

What I appreciate most is how Ansible Automation Platform gives us a consistent way to automate tasks across differnet environments. Instead of everyone writing their own scripts, we can have a centralized, controlled approach that keeps things uniform and reduces errors.

Cloud services, on‑prem servers, or network devices, Ansible connects to everything without needing any agents. This flexibility has made it much easier to scale automation across the organization stacks.

Also, its write once-reuse anywhere motoo help us reuse across multiple projects or environments. This not only speeds up deployments but also ensures the same process runs the same way every time, which has noticeably improved our operational stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

Even though YAML is readable, getting comfortable with writing playbooks, structuring roles, and understanding best practices takes time. My new team members have often needed guidance before they can contribute effectively in our platform.

May be few cases where they struggeled are role structuring, output capturing and reusing andYAML Sensitivity are more prone to error.

UI is helpful, but it introduces extra complexity compared to using Ansible alone. Managing inventories, credentials, and job templates through the controller sometimes feels more complicated than necessary.

These are just my experiences, others may feel it easy though if the have already used CFT or TF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jim O.
JO
System Administrator / Oracle DBA
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Agentless Architecture and Scalable Orchestration Made Simple"
What do you like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

What I like best is the agentless architecture and human readable YAML playbooks. The platform scales from simple tasks to enterprise wide orchestration without added complexity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

Performance can be quite unpredictable at scale. For example, large inventories with complex fact gathering can cause slow execution times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JG
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Scalable Automation, Non-Scalable Credential Usage"
What do you like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

I've been using AAP for quite a while. In Tower, the concept of creating a "secure bubble wrap" by utilizing virtualenvs was a great idea. However, from my world of Secrets Management, it made it near impossible to get attributes of the workload executing within to identify it without a "secret zero".

Today, in AAP... the containerized execution environments are a game changer! Now, we can determine the attributes of the environment to provide it secrets and when the execution completes -- POOF! -- the container and all secrets within are gone!

This simple change in architecture to improve modernization was an amazing advancement! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

I said I was in secrets management, so you should see this one coming:

"The Single Credential Problem"

Today, Job Templates only support 1 Machine Credential. If I want to scale a job template across many hosts to patch them efficiently, there is no native way to accomplish this today. I have to utilize a workaround that employs the use of lookup plugins in the playbook and dynamically fetching secrets just-in-time based on inventory_hostname. It was actually my Lightning Talk for AnsibleFest here at Summit this week. The feature request was added to AWX in 2017.

Also, AAP has no underlying OIDC configuration. This makes it hard to utilize an identity-aware process that allows secrets management to utilize attributes of workloads (the "payload" of the JWT from OIDC) to identify them instead of a "secret zero" needing to be utilized. Cloud services and even OpenShift has this support today... a modern AAP should also support the same similar to most CI platforms out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DK
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Automate That Stuff!"
What do you like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

AAP makes my life easier because I am a lazy engineer! If there is ever a configuration task that I have to do more than once, I use AAP to get it done. Even if I may only do something once, chances are there is a playbook for it, just incase I ever have to do it again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

The disconnect between Hashi TF and AAP. These two products are awesome when used together and a tighter integration between them is not only a need, but it is mandatory! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mustafa Abdel Hady R.
MR
Telco Cloud and Networks Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Telco Cloud, automation and DevOps expert"
What do you like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

It runs inside containers, so the separation between control plane and execution plane gives a lot of flexibility.

The Ansible Automation Platform user experience in general is so good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

No playbook viewer or editor with visual syntax validator.

More automation if you have a complete Ansible project that contains inventory, ansible.cfg, vault, roles to automate the creation of all required resources like Machine Credentials, Vault Credentials and inventory and tie them together automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Brianna Gault of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Hi Mustafa, Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback on multiple Red Hat products! We're thrilled to see you're pleased with both Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

If you have any questions or additional thoughts to share, please reach out to us at experience-advocacy@redhat.com.

Thanks,

Red Hat Experience & Advocacy Team

Marius T.
MT
IT Observsbility Advisor
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"IT Observability Advisor"
What do you like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

The ability to run commands on infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

Nothing much, since it’s a platform that eases tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luke B.
LB
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"AAP is cool."
What do you like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

What I like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is its ability to simplify complex IT tasks through consistent, agentless automation across hybrid environments. It provides a user-friendly yet powerful framework that allows teams to automate provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and more with minimal overhead. The platform’s integration with Red Hat’s enterprise ecosystem, coupled with features like role-based access control, visual dashboards, and certified content collections, makes it an ideal solution for scaling automation securely and efficiently across large organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

It’s hard to hire employees with existing AAP knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration
AG
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"System Engineer"
What do you like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

The automation that ansible allows our organization to perform is outstanding! It provides us piece of mind that certain configurations are getting pushed to our Linux nodes without interaction. It gives us more time to focus on the things that require our attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

If I had to select one thing I don't like about ansible, it's the time it takes to configure an automation script to properly run without issue. It would be nice if AI could be integrated into (nano, vi, and vim) , so while you're developing the script AI is checking for syntax errors that can be corrected right then and there. Otherwise it's great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"AAP was built for you and me"
What do you like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

I love Ansible for all things configuration management. Ansible Automation platform provides an awesome way for others to join in on utilizing the benefits of Ansible in a more friendly way. The user interface is clean and easy to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

Cost is definitely a thing that can be off putting with moving towards the GUI offering (as well as other associated features that come with it). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PK
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Incredible for automating repeated tasks in consistent manner"
What do you like best about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

Ansible allows our IT team to create standardized procedures for consistent software deployment and configuration. Implementation has reduced workstation deployment, standardized our server configurations, and has simplified repetitive management tasks. Our team frequently uses Ansible in day-to-day tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

Ansible can be complicated for new users to start using and developing, but there is comprehensive documentation and plenty of resources online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Basic Tower

$5,000
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$10,000
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$14,000
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