We performed a comparison between OpenText Cloud Service Automation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Nutanix, IBM and others in Cloud Management."The tool's most valuable feature is life cycle management."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Cloud Service is how user friendly the solution is."
"The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful."
"We can automate a few host configurations using the product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don’t need an agent for it to work."
"Its checking and validating ensures our packages are properly patched."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"The API for exposing all our infrastructure services is the most valuable feature."
"It does not require staff for deployment and maintenance. It just works."
"This solution allows us to stitch a lot of different parts of the workflow together."
"OpenText Cloud Service Automation needs to incorporate easier installation. It should improve skills and quality of support."
"I would like fewer restrictions as a software tester."
"Ansible could use more public relations and marketing."
"What I would like to see is a refined Dashboard to see, when I log in: Here are all my jobs, here are how many times they've executed; some kind graphical stitching-together of the workflows and jobs, and how they're connected. Also, those "failed hosts," what does that mean? We have a problem, a failed host can be anything. Is SSH the reason it failed? Is the job template why it failed? It doesn't really distinguish that."
"Ansible is great, but there are not many modules. You can do about 80% to 90% of things by using commands, but more modules should be added. We cannot do some of the things in Ansible. In Red Hat, we have the YUM package manager, and there are certain options that we can pass through YUM. To install the Docker Community Edition, I'll write the yum install docker-ce command, but because the Docker Community Edition is not compatible with RHEL 8, I will have to use the nobest option, such as yum install docker-ce --nobest. The nobest option installs the most stable version that can be installed on a particular system. In Ansible, the nobest option is not there. So, it needs some improvements in terms of options. There should be more options, keywords, and modules."
"We would like support for the post-integration of this product before cloud frameworks because right now their approach is to avoid using on-premises activities and move everything to the cloud."
"It can use some more credential types. I've found that when I go looking for a certain credential type, such as private keys, they're not really there."
"There needs to be improvement in the orchestration."
"Because Ansible is establishing SSH sessions to perform tasks, there is a limit on scalability."
"The documentation for the installation step of deployment, OpenStack, etc., and these things have to be a bit more detailed."
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OpenText Cloud Service Automation is ranked 27th in Cloud Management with 6 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. OpenText Cloud Service Automation is rated 9.0, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of OpenText Cloud Service Automation writes "Comes with life cycle management features but needs improvement in installation ". 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". OpenText Cloud Service Automation is most compared with , 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.
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