Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform vs. Trellix Change Control

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ansible
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.
$5,000
per year
McAfee Change Control
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Trellix Change Control (formerly McAfee, or Solidcore S3 Control) delivers continuous, enterprise-wide detection of authorized changes as they occur. It blocks unauthorized changes to critical system files, directories, and configurations while streamlining the implementation of new policies and compliance measures.N/A
Pricing
Red Hat Ansible Automation PlatformTrellix Change Control
Editions & Modules
Basic Tower
5,000
per year
Enterprise Tower
10,000
per year
Premium Tower
14,000
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AnsibleMcAfee Change Control
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Red Hat Ansible Automation PlatformTrellix Change Control
Features
Red Hat Ansible Automation PlatformTrellix Change Control
Configuration Management
Comparison of Configuration Management features of Product A and Product B
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
8.6
Ratings
7% above category average
Trellix Change Control
-
Ratings
Infrastructure Automation9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Provisioning8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Parallel Execution8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Node Management8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Logging7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Version Control8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Red Hat Ansible Automation PlatformTrellix Change Control
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.7
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.6
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Red Hat Ansible Automation PlatformTrellix Change Control
Likelihood to Recommend
I'm going to say it is best suited for configuration management. Like I said, patching even with security, things of that nature. Probably less suited is hardware management, but Red Hat IBM/IBM has Terraform for that. So it's a trade off.
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It gives more power to IT to track security breaches. Alerts make the job easier by ensuring that a constant overwatch is not needed. Gives a security boost with respect to adding policies as to what changes are allowed and what is not allowed especially when it comes to registry keys which is very crucial.
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Pros
  • Debugging is easy, as it tells you exactly within your job where the job failed, even when jumping around several playbooks.
  • Ansible seems to integrate with everything, and the community is big enough that if you are unsure how to approach converting a process into a playbook, you can usually find something similar to what you are trying to do.
  • Security in AAP seems to be pretty straightforward. Easy to organize and identify who has what permissions or can only see the content based on the organization they belong to.
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  • Track Content Change
  • Change Alerts
  • Easy to get started with
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Cons
  • Ability to tell when a task has already been done
  • yaml configuration can be annoying at times, perhaps a built in lint so yq isn't needed
  • the become feature should be able to be set to true globally without using args
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  • Support on MacOS
  • Overhaul intrusion detection
  • Can work on interactive UI
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Likelihood to Renew
Even is if it's a great tool, we are looking to renew our licence for our production servers only. The product is very expensive to use, so we might look for a cheaper solution for our non-production servers. One of the solution we are looking, is AWX, free, and similar to AAP. This is be perfect for our non-production servers.
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The easy tool it is, performance which is smooth, not much expertise needed, change alerts are great and the policies can be flexibly changed.
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Usability
Overall it's good but the new architecture can be complex. Improvements can be made in the Config as Code capabilities for managing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Sometimes it can be difficult for those unfamiliar to understand the relationship between Projects/Credentials/Job Templates, etc.
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Easy peasy and smooth. I don't have to worry about extensive memory consumption because it does not need much and yet provides pretty fast and smooth experience .
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Performance
Great in almost every way compared to any other configuration management software. The only thing I wish for is python3 support. Other than that, YAML is much improved compared to the Ruby of Chef. The agentless nature is incredibly convenient for managing systems quickly, and if a member of your term has no terminal experience whatsoever they can still use the UI.
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Support Rating
There is a lot of good documentation that Ansible and Red Hat provide which should help get someone started with making Ansible useful. But once you get to more complicated scenarios, you will benefit from learning from others. I have not used Red Hat support for work with Ansible, but many of the online resources are helpful.
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Never really needed for a support, but they do look to have good support parameters.
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Implementation Rating
I spoke on this topic today!
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Alternatives Considered
As I said earlier, Red Hat Ansible remains a top choice because it is a perfect combination of multiple capabilities. Terraform is good in IAC but not in config automation. Puppet is well-suited for developers, but not for system administrators and infrastructure integrators. OpenShift and Kubernetes are generic automators only.
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It is an easy tool to use that makes a huge difference, easy setup, and does not consume much memory. The performance is smooth which is difficult to see in all the other similar tools. Its real-time and continuous updates on changes when changes are made while keeping options to update the policies to change files gives users a lot of options to be happy with.
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Return on Investment
  • We are still early in our implementation and don't have much yet - but I can say that it has already improved the time it takes to deploy a new virtual server for us, as well as making them more consistent.
  • In working through what jobs are required, it has really improved the communication between our different teams
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  • Feels more secure
  • More power to IT to track breaches
  • More control over company policies
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