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."It is helpful for managing devices anytime and any place without requiring dependency on the local networks."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Intune device restriction policies enable me to enforce limitations on the device, like blocking the mobile camera or restricting the employees from using and inserting USB devices, including thumb drives and flash drives."
"A great solution for anyone wanting a modern endpoint device management solution."
"The most valuable includes managing everything from a single console."
"Stable product that's easy to set up compared to other MDM products."
"There has been a noticeable increase in productivity for both my organization and clients."
"We are a remote company, and the product helps us manage the global endpoints. It helps us natively manage the endpoints in the cloud from anywhere."
"The solution helps us save a lot of costs."
"The most valuable features of HashiCorp Terraform are automation and management capabilities."
"HashiCorp Terraform is highly stable."
"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."
"It is the customization of Terraform's modules that I find most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the solution does not need installation."
"The most valuable feature of Terraform is the ability to use it as a coding language because it works in a way that's similar to other coding languages."
"We save a lot of time with this solution."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Satellite are its support, simplicity, and patch management."
"It plays a significant role in managing the lifecycle of our systems and ensures that we can effectively control and update the software versions to align with our organization's needs."
"The product allows us to handle patching for multiple servers at a time manually."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to process patching and updates completely offline without an internet connection."
"Technical support has been good."
"The compliance auditing helped me a lot."
"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."
"It has been a stable solution...It is a totally scalable solution."
"There can be more logs. I do not have any other requirements."
"They could also make it easier to use because there are some other products that may be easier to use in terms of the look and feel of the dashboard."
"Microsoft Intune needs to improve the initial login process."
"The documentation about the custom image setup could be better. Although Microsoft provides the steps to configure Intune or set up or deploy Intune, it doesn't have much information related to custom images. If you ask, "how can we deploy the custom image?" There is no information. The steps they mention ask you to connect to your on-premises environment or create your own image on the cloud itself once there is connectivity. But I needed to go to multiple websites to get all this information. I had to figure out how to upload the custom image if you want to use the on-premise custom image for Cloud PC. If you have the proper subscription, you must have the right access, like global admin or owner. Then you can add your custom image to that. There are no steps mentioned over there. Microsoft Intune doesn't have Chrome browser support. I would like to have that support because they will want it if we pitch the product to clients."
"Deploying an app can be a complex process due to dependencies."
"Intune's reporting and logging could be improved. When troubleshooting, it's difficult to collect the logs and determine what's happening. If I want to filter out the compliant devices, I can see it from the logs, but I would like the option to drill down further."
"The solution requires Mac support."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"Some areas where Terraform could improve would be challenges in managing sensitive information, especially when dealing with secret files or credentials."
"The syntax is a bit difficult, and it would great if it could be easier."
"If you are copying something from a well running machine to a remote machine, there are some issues with the current version, but it is acceptable."
"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."
"I would like to see a short-term option for a short-term plan."
"The product must improve DevOps features."
"HashiCorp Terraform could improve the integration with the VCloud Director. When we manage the VCloud Director we end up wasting our time when creating virtual machines. HashiCorp Terraform knows about these issues and I think there might be a workaround but they should incorporate the fix in an upcoming release."
"Community tech support could be a little better."
"I would like the direct integration with insights to be re-established."
"It is difficult to update and maintain."
"The product's automation capabilities need enhancement."
"It has not been significantly updated in a while."
"The solution's initial setup is a little bit tricky."
"Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better."
"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."
"Improving integration could lead to a more unified management experience for multiple operating systems within our data center."
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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