We performed a comparison between HashiCorp Terraform and Red Hat Satellite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"Mobile device management is most valuable."
"The standout features of Intune are its excellent mobile device management and highly effective application management capabilities."
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"The many policies available in Microsoft Intune for managing our devices are valuable."
"It is a stable solution."
"...Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product itself, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune... so you have that single dashboard."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the great community support."
"One of the most valuable features is that it offers the ability to create a VPC, Virtual Private Cloud and VPN connectivity to the VPC can be automated without having to do it manually."
"The first thing I like about the solution is that it keeps a version of your infrastructure."
"It is one of the best things because now we have everything automated with Terraform. We didn't have an outage for the last three years because everything is written in a code, and every change we have made is recorded. If we didn't have a tool like Terraform, it would be extremely complex to achieve this level of maturity with infrastructure."
"It is easy to recreate an exact duplicate or output of an environment."
"We save a lot of time with this solution."
"The feature "Terraform Plan" is the most valuable in HashiCorp Terraform as it allows us to see the differences between the current infrastructure and the one we are about to deploy, keeping things safe. Additionally, we appreciate the use of the modules as it helps in making the application scalable."
"It has been a stable solution...It is a totally scalable solution."
"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
"The product helps me to manage a large number of servers from one console."
"I like the integration with other tools."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Satellite are its support, simplicity, and patch management."
"It cuts down significantly on the administrative time it takes to patch systems in a large environment."
"Technical support has been good."
"Fixing is the most valuable. When you deal with a lot of hardware and software and you have a lot of packages, fixing is a bit difficult. You need to track and pull up all such things, but Satellite makes this task easy. We have branches in other locations, and I can manage other branches by using Satellite Capsule, which is a great feature."
"I know that their AI pieces are at the infancy stage, but allowing users to do more tagging for information would be an interesting thing because Intune also directly integrates with Azure. Because a lot of the devices are hosted with that, you also get a lot of tagging of user data and other things like that."
"There could be more wizard-driven policy development or creation. Some of the policies can get quite complex. If they have a wizard that assists the administrators in creating the policy, that will be a great job."
"In terms of what can be improved, I am looking for better enhancements regarding Apple management, not only on the mobile device, but also on the laptop."
"It would really be helpful to have the option to manage server operating systems as well, like Windows Server, at least. That way, we could scrap the use of SCCM, which requires a lot of on-premises infrastructure."
"Sometimes, customers compare it with AirWatch, but the concept of Intune is different from other solutions. It's an application management app. It gets a bit difficult to explain it to customers, but it's not a product limitation. It takes a presale document or presentation to explain it to customers."
"The technical support could be improved."
"The solution can have some compliance problems in general and the end-point user can bypass easily the company policies in Intune."
"One big problem with Microsoft is that they're changing the names of the products quite often, or they're quite consistently doing so. Intune is now Endpoint administration. Constantly switching the user interface or the administrative interface makes it quite hard to keep pace. If you are on a two-week holiday and you come back and look at the same screen you have looked at for the last couple of months, it looks different, which is annoying. Changing things around all the time doesn't make it easy."
"The syntax is a bit difficult, and it would great if it could be easier."
"The solution is complex when we use it for a loop. This is a problem, not because of the language itself, but because of how the infrastructure generally works. It's different from Python."
"The price of the solution could improve."
"With cloud providers always adding new resource types, there are certain resources that Terraform does not support. It would be great if it could support those resources as well."
"When a misconfiguration or drift occurs, fixing the issue can be difficult. For instance, if there is a change in API calls while a script is running, it can be challenging to make corrections. This may require additional review and modifications to the code. I recall an instance where an industry budget creation process was altered, and it took significant time to amend the code. In fact, I had to add five or six different script portions to resolve the issue."
"It should have a more object-oriented approach like different coding languages."
"The solution is missing a lot of properties for specific resources."
"Terraform should also support YAML language, which is more user-friendly than HCL. They should also add a GUI, so you don't need to memorize all the commands. A GUI would enable us to do everything with a click of a button."
"Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update."
"The product's automation capabilities need enhancement."
"The dashboard of Satellite is not encouraging. It does not adequately showcase all the functionality it offers."
"Red Hat Satellite's pricing needs improvement."
"There could be a feature to simplify the process without the requirement of any patch manager subscription."
"Satellite should be bundled with Ansible Tower and the Ansible Automation platform. We face challenges from a security perspective because we have micro-segmentation in our network. For each server we provision, we have to set permissions to different ports so that the servers can communicate with Satellite. If I have a single server with Satellite and the Ansible Automation Platform, it would be easier to manage security issues instead of having two or three products on various servers."
"The documentation could be better."
"I would like the direct integration with insights to be re-established."
HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 7th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. HashiCorp Terraform is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Satellite writes "A good product for managing patches and updates that could be more robust and up-to-date". HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with SaltStack, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, BMC TrueSight Server Automation and SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager and Chef. See our HashiCorp Terraform vs. Red Hat Satellite report.
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