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Updated 13th October 2025
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Chief Information Officer
<50M USD, IT ServicesFAVORABLE
“Predictable Deployments and Improved RBAC with Ansible”
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.
IT Associate
1B - 3B USD, TransportationCRITICAL
“Advanced scalability, but complexity and costs can be discouraging”
Pros: Very versatile and scalable. On the other hand, the platform is more complex to manage than basic Ansible. It's a bit cumbersome and takes time to manage properly.
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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.
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1993
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Raleigh, United States
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10001+
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- Chief Information Officer<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Predictable Deployments and Improved RBAC with Ansible
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. - Senior Manager<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
High cost and complexity, but transformative for daily IT operations
Ansible Automation Platform has been great for orchestrating automation in our environment. It contains all of the features and tools necessary to roll Ansible out enterprise-wide. - Software Sr. Qa Engineer<50M USDSoftwareReview Source
YAML Simplicity and Automation Controller Ease Rated Highly in Ansible Experience
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 Associate1B-10B USDTravel and HospitalityReview Source
Reliable daily automation with minimal manual effort after setup
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 Engineer50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Red Hat Ansible Automation Simplifies Patching Yet Faces SSH Session Limit Issues
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
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