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Favorable Review
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Predictable Deployments and Improved RBAC with Ansible
Critical Review
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Impressive multivendor automation, but high costs and setup hurdles
Likes and dislikes about
likes
Playbooks are readable. Even our newer admins pick up YAML quickly, and can skim a play during a review without needing someone to walk them through it. The module ecosystem is huge - Cisco, AWS, VMWare, F5, and even some of the modules are out of the box. Automation controller gives us proper RBAC, Scheduling and visibility. We were able to retire a pile of cron jobs scattered across servers that nobody really owned.
May 14, 2026
dislikes
1) High licensing costs : node-based enterprise licensing is expensive, making it a heavy financial commitment for large infrastructure footprints 2) Mandatory container K8S prerequisites : modern AAP versions requires Kubernetes, Openshift or a container runtime to deploy, adding significant infrastrucutre prerequisites 3) Steep initial learning curve : understanding execution environments, automation mesh, and containerized execution requires time and dedication before seeing full ROI
August 3, 2026
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