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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

byIBM (Red Hat)
in
4.5
Market Presence: DevOps Platforms (Transitioning to DevSecOps Platforms), Network Automation Platforms

Overview

Product Information on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a software that enables organizations to automate IT processes such as configuration management, application deployment, and workflow orchestration in enterprise environments. The software offers tools for managing infrastructure as code, integrating with various cloud and on-premise technologies, and supporting security and compliance requirements. It provides automation capabilities for tasks across servers, networks, and applications, helping to reduce manual intervention and streamline operational efficiency. The platform supports collaboration and resource sharing through customizable playbooks and roles, addressing the need for standardized and repeatable automation solutions in complex IT ecosystems.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Pricing

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform software uses a subscription-based pricing model with annual licensing fees determined by the number of nodes managed. The software offers tiered pricing that varies based on deployment type and required support levels, with options for trial access and volume discounts for larger environments.

Overall experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Chief Information Officer
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Predictable Deployments and Improved RBAC with Ansible”

5.0
May 14, 2026
We brought the Ansible Automation Platform into our environment about two years ago, mainly because our infra team was drowning in repetitive config work across roughly 150 servers and a mix of network gear. It wasn't a magic switch, the first 3-4 months we spent mostly cleaning up inventories and rewriting the early playbooks our admins put together. But once we got past that hump, the plarform has genuinely held up its end. Deployments are predictable now, audit trails are clean, and my ops team finally gets weekends back. Red Hat's support has been responsive to the tickets we've raised. The only thing that keeps coming up internally is cost, which I jave to defend at every renewal.
Front End Developer
50M - 250M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Frontend Developers Take: Pros and Cons for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform”

3.0
Mar 6, 2024
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's powerful automation, effective infrastructure management, Integration and support resources have completely changed frontend development. Ansible may become must have tool for frontend developers trying to increase productivity and workflow efficiency with regular updates and and focus on frontend specific requirements

About Company

Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

Red Hat specialises in offering enterprise open source solutions. The main business problem it addresses lies within the domain of Linux, hybrid cloud, edge, and Kubernetes technologies. It operates using a communal collaboration method which allows it to provide efficient technological solutions. Its dedicated professionals play an integral role in the idea generation process and problem-solving, resulting in significant advancements in the field.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1993
Head office location
Raleigh, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://www.redhat.com

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4.5

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  • Chief Information Officer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Predictable Deployments and Improved RBAC with Ansible

    5.0
    May 13, 2026
    We brought the Ansible Automation Platform into our environment about two years ago, mainly because our infra team was drowning in repetitive config work across roughly 150 servers and a mix of network gear. It wasn't a magic switch, the first 3-4 months we spent mostly cleaning up inventories and rewriting the early playbooks our admins put together. But once we got past that hump, the plarform has genuinely held up its end. Deployments are predictable now, audit trails are clean, and my ops team finally gets weekends back. Red Hat's support has been responsive to the tickets we've raised. The only thing that keeps coming up internally is cost, which I jave to defend at every renewal.
  • Software Sr. Qa Engineer
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    YAML Simplicity and Automation Controller Ease Rated Highly in Ansible Experience

    4.0
    Jan 16, 2026
    Overall, my experience with Ansible has been positive. It's reliable for automating repetitive infrastructure. It's reliable for automating repetitive infrastructure and deployment tasks, and once things are set up properly, it saves a lot of time and reduces manual errors in day to day DevOps work.
  • IT Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Reliable daily automation with minimal manual effort after setup

    4.0
    May 26, 2026
    I have had a pretty stable and consistent experience with the platform overall. It has helped me cut down on manual work by streamlining routine automation and configuration management and things are a lot more standardized now. It connects well enough with the tools we already use and handles multi-environment setups without much trouble. The initial learning curve is real, but worth pushing through once setup, it's reliable and consistent day to day.
  • Sr.technical Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Red Hat Ansible Automation Simplifies Patching Yet Faces SSH Session Limit Issues

    4.0
    Apr 10, 2026
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is useful in automating various things like Patching, OS hardening and using this tool helped many customers to automate their configuration tasks. Earlier System Engineers would face challenges to patch and harden each and every OS but with the help of this tool everything is achieved within a short span of time
  • It Security Engineer
    <50M USD
    Hardware
    Review Source

    Efficiency Gains in IT Operations with Intuitive Playbooks and Agentless Architecture

    4.0
    May 13, 2026
    The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform has significantly improved the IT operation efficiency and the scalability of the organization. The YAML-based playbooks are very intuitive, making the complex deployments simple and repeatable across the multi-cloud environments. Standardizing the workloads has been highly reliable for the team.
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User Sentiment About Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

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.

Like

What I really like about about it is that it makes frontend development easier. It helped me to do my job better by taking care of repetitive tasks and technical stuff behind the scenes. So that I can focus on creating great frontend experiences with getting stuck.

Like

1. The biggest strength for me are the simplicity of YAML based playbooks which are easy to read, write and maintain even for complex workflows. 2. Automation Controller (Tower/AAP UI) makes scheduling, role based access and job monitoring much easier at scale. 3. CI/CD and cloud integrations really helped me to automate deployments and environment provisioning across different platforms.

Dislike

Pricing has been creeping up year over year. As our needs count grows, the subscription math gets harder to justify to finance. Documentation is solid for the basics but thins out for more advanced or edge scenarios. We end up on community forums and Github issues more often than I'd like. Major version upgrades haven't always been clean. One migration cost us a Saturday we weren't planning to spend.

Dislike

It could me more user friendly, provide simpler tools for developing and managing automation tasks, be easier to understand and work better with windows. For Frontend developers like me, Ansible will be easier to use and more useful if this changes were made.

Dislike

1. I felt that the initial setup and learning curve can be steep, especially when moving from basic Ansible to the full automation platform. 2. Debugging failed playbooks isn't always straightforward and error messages can be unclear at times. 3. Licensing and pricing feel expensive for smaller teams compared to using open-source Ansible alone.