We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Fortianalyzer is the most valuable aspect of this solution"
"We like the availability of the hardware and the service that we get from FortiGate, as well as the kind of reach that they have as a part of their sales folks."
"The security features, for example, URL filtering, AMP, and advanced threat protection, are very valuable."
"This product is easy to manage and easy to use."
"FortiGate Cloud's key features are the user interface and ease of access."
"The most valuable FortiGate Cloud feature is logging. It's there seven days a week, and there is no hard limit on logs or size restrictions. This much capacity will show up for that seven days. FortiGate Cloud offers many other valuable features like Fortinet Secure Gateway, SASE, and the Fortinet Security Fabric."
"The solution includes a very stable VPN and IPS."
"The intel we get from Fortinet is its most valuable aspect."
"The initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete."
"It enabled me to take the old build manifest and automated everything. So when it came time to spin everything up, it was quick and simple. I could spin it up and test it out. And then, when it came time to roll production, it was a done deal. When we expanded to multiple data centers, it was same thing: Change a few IP addresses, change some names, and off we went."
"The solution is very simple to use."
"Its checking and validating ensures our packages are properly patched."
"It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well."
"Ansible is agentless. So, we don't need to set up any agent into the computer we are interacting with. The only prerequisite is that the host with which we are going to interact must have the Python interpreter installed on it. We can connect to a host and do our configuration by using Ansible."
"It is all modular-based. If there is not a module for it today, someone will write it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don’t need an agent for it to work."
"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"The solution’s pricing and stability could be improved."
"ACL is an area with shortcomings that needs to be improved."
"The console or demonstration tool could be more user friendly."
"Everything related to the graphical user interface should be improved."
"The Linux version currently lacks some of the latest features, notably in the IPv6 tool stack, which is available for Windows clients."
"If you need to scale, you do need to trade up to a new Fortinet solution."
"FortiGate Cloud could be improved with increased granularity for our control."
"In Community, there's a lot of effort towards testing, standardizing, and testing for module development to role development, which is why Molecule is now becoming real. Same thing with Zuul, which we are starting to implement. Zulu tests out modules from third-party sources, like ourselves, and verifies that the modules work before they are committed to the code. Currently, Ansible can't do this with all the modules out there."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"Ansible has just been upgraded, and the only issue that we are seeing at the moment is that the user interface can be slow. We're currently investigating the refresh period with Red Hat when you click a job and run a job. It seems that the buffer no longer runs in real-time. We haven't discovered whether that's partially an issue with our environment, but Red Hat has come back and said that they're working on a couple of bugs in the background. We've upgraded to that version in the last six months, and that's the only issue that we've seen."
"The tool should allow us to create infrastructure. It has everything when it comes to management, but it lacks the provisioning aspect."
"The support could be better."
"The solution must be made easier to configure."
"Some of the Cisco modules could be expanded, which would be great, along with not having to do so much coding in the background to make it work."
"One problem that I'm facing right now is the mismatch between the new version of Python and Ansible. Sometimes it's Python 2, and sometimes it's Python 3. When things get a bit dicey, I wish that Ansible would solve this issue by itself. I don't want to have to specify if it is Python 3 or version 2."
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Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and N-able N-central, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune. See our Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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