Ansible Reviews & Insights

Score9.2 out of 10

339 Reviews and Ratings

Overview

Synthesised from 98 reviews | Last Published May 26, 2026

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is primarily adopted for automating core IT infrastructure tasks, with a strong emphasis on server management, configuration, and provisioning. Organizations widely leverage it for new server builds, upgrades, and VM setup, along with general configuration management to ensure consistency and compliance across diverse environments. In TrustRadius reviews, its effectiveness in automating diverse operations like business processes, cloud deployments, and infrastructure management is a frequently cited strength, with 26% of reviewers highlighting this broad capability. The platform's agentless architecture and ease of use also contribute to its accessibility for various automation needs.

Beyond its core automation, reviewers appreciate the platform's role in reducing errors, improving consistency, and standardizing IT operations, which significantly enhances efficiency and delivers time savings. However, areas for improvement include the user interface and overall user experience, which 12% of reviewers indicated could benefit from a more modern design. Reviewers also frequently mentioned the need for more comprehensive documentation and simpler upgrade processes. Overall, the platform is viewed as a robust solution that delivers substantial operational benefits despite some identified complexities.

Pros

Automating diverse IT operations (business processes, cloud deployments, infrastructure management)
Agentless architecture simplifies deployment across numerous devices
Ease of use and lower barrier to entry for automation tasks
Strong configuration management to reduce drift and enforce consistency
Streamlining patching processes across various environments

Cons

User interface and overall user experience require modernization
Documentation needs to be more comprehensive and example-rich
Upgrade processes are complex and can be challenging
Credential management could be improved
Error handling and logging need clearer diagnostics and robust feedback

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Ansible Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 3, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To manage assets and inventories across various domains.

Pros

You can manage multiple assets from a central location.

Cons

I'm still fairly new to it, so I'm not quite sure, but it is fairly easy to learn right now.

Likelihood to Recommend

I have different assets in different areas across our campus, so it makes it easier to manage them from one central location.

Verified User

Administrator (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Ansible Automation Platform Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 3, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We automate everything, automate all the things, as we say. From patch management to user management, anything to do on the RHEL box, we do it. We use it on Windows, we use it on our F5s, we use it on our network equipment. Just automate everything in our organization.

Pros

Automate. If you got to do something once, do it once. If you got to do it twice, automate it with Ansible.

Cons

I can't think of any right now because I've heard about the Lightspeed and I'm really excited about that. Ansible has been really solid for us. We haven't had any issues. Maybe the upgrade process, but other than that, as coming from a user, it's awesome.
Give out Lightspeed for free.

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.

Victor Williams

Linux Administrator in Information Technology at Blue Cross from Blue Shield of Alabama (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Ansible Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 3, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Automating tasks, repetitive tasks, making them easier, automating processes and procedures for other teams. They make requests, we write the automation and go from there.

Pros

I like we have a set for provisioning. It manages requests from an end user through the lifecycle of building a system up through installation and ready for use of the system for the end users. That's one of the main things that I like it for it.

Cons

Log tracking and job detailed tracking. One of the main things I've noticed is relationships between job and attempted reruns of jobs. There is no visual relationship between them. Something like that would be great.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's very well suited for declarative setups. If I need a setup done a certain way, it's very good at that and I believe it's by design lacks a lot of flexibility or input and choices being made, things like that. But I think that's the nature of the beast, but it's something that I'm asked to do regularly.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

My new life with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

1) Building new Linux VMs
2) Patching Linux VMs
3) Standardizing file changes
4) Local password changes
5) Connect with all Linux/Unix servers with the same credential

Pros

Use of credentials.
Create Inventories.
Run consistently.
Workfflows

Cons

Better Outputs. Not easy to download the output to do a better review

Likelihood to Recommend

Automate patching RHEL and build VMS from Satellite. We started using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform less than a year ago. Because of that, we are patching every 3 instead of 6 months. Our patch includes rebooting, taking snapshots, applying the patch, and rebooting again. It works beautifully. I'm not yet confident with patching Solaris 11.4 with LDOMs and named zones.

Pablo Szajt

Linux/Unix System Administrator in Information Technology at Manitoba Hydro (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform - Not instantaneous but still impressive

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We manage git repositories with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform code that assist in making our laptops/desktops/servers compliant with corporate policy. We have ancillary playbooks/template for edge cases, and unique deployments. We also enforce scheduled patching and reboots. While we have experimented with callback, it is not yet as useful as we had hoped.

Pros

Ensuring a consistent image when deploying a newly imaged system. We ensure our logging, backup and security agents are uniformly deployed and functioning.
Providing tailor-able deployments which suit requester's needs. For example, if they require access to network file shares.
Enforcing "patch Tuesday" for select inventories.

Cons

The output of complex templates, which include nested roles, is difficult to parse, especially when using variables across roles.
Lifecycle management of hosts is difficult to do well. Our subscription covers the necessary systems, but removing old systems is still a manual process. We attempt to script it, and haven't found a mature solution.
Integration into a reliable password manager, or identity service to remove the ssh password requirement is more complex than seems necessary.

Likelihood to Recommend

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is well suited for ensuring a consistent endpoint via code. Our typical use case is to ensure our corporate baseline is actually in effect. This would also apply to federal security requirements, like DFARS, NIST frameworks, or DoD STIGs. It does not do well in provisioning systems, but it is not designed to. It is interesting to see the integration with tooling like Terraform.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Ansible Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Ansible to automate our operations task across multiple platforms including CM, life cycle and more. We have it spread out across multiple environments

Pros

Simple interface
Fast interaction

Cons

RBAC
Permissions

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited to satisfy operational needs where we would have employees continuously doing the same thing over and over. It is less appropriate for one of task that do not come up very often

Mark Conway

Computer analyst in Corporate at NGC (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

resource very important to automate

updates windows

Pros

patching
install programs
restart services sql

Cons

automate process
health check
create reports

Likelihood to Recommend

Carlos Cordero

technical leader in Information Technology at gbm (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Ansible Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the open source product in order to automate manual network and infrastructure processes

Pros

Workflows
REST API Interaction
Scheduling
Inventory Management

Cons

Clustering

Likelihood to Recommend

well-suited:
infrastructure management, elimination of manual processes, multi-tenant environments, scheduling of reporting

less well-suited: observabilty, configuration management, single pane of glass reporting, need for live insight in a single platform

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience