We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Devops and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Overall, the two solutions are very comparable. They are both easy to deploy and they both have good features.
"Stable and scalable solution for work planning and code collaboration. It's fast, and it offers a good user experience."
"If someone is considering developing and deploying the infrastructure in this solution, then using this tool is perfect because it's fully integrated with the pipelines and with a server core repository."
"The most valuable feature is automation with version control."
"We use all the DevOps features and services, like reports, Boards, Pipelines, Artifactory, etc. The interface is interactive and intuitive. The platform visuals and workflow are straightforward in Azure DevOps."
"Technical support has been excellent. On that side, Microsoft is very good. The customer support of Microsoft has really improved this past year. On the cloud side also we are very satisfied because it offers very good support."
"All features are good. Pipelines feature is great, and Boards and Artifacts features are also really good. It is really good at what it does. It is very comprehensive, and it has some really great aspects to it. It is very easy. It is probably one of the easiest to use DevOps tools in the industry, and it is well integrated."
"The pricing seems to be reasonable."
"It is a really easy way to define all of the features that you need to deliver. You can link those features to epics and break them down into user stories. You can also assign the user stories into sprints for doing your product improvement planning."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"One of the most valuable features is that Ansible is agentless. It does not have dependencies, other than Python, which is very generic in terms of dependencies for all systems and for any environment. Being agentless, Ansible is very convenient for everything."
"The most valuable features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform are the agentless platform and writing the code is simple using the Yaml computer language."
"The most useful features are the playbooks. We can develop our playbooks and simplify them doing something like a cross platform."
"This solution allows us to stitch a lot of different parts of the workflow together."
"It was easy to read and learn. It is a YAML-based syntax, which makes it easily understand and pick up."
"Some colleagues and other companies use it and comment that it is easy to use, easy to understand, and offers good features."
"I like being able to control multiple systems and push out updates quickly with just a couple of clicks of a button and commands. I like the automation because it is a time saver."
"Some things like project management, tasks, progress, and having work progress views require us to use some external tools, or to create our own internal tools. These are not native to DevOps. It would be ideal if, instead of searching for third-party solutions, they had these feature sets or capabilities included under DevOps."
"It should be easier to manage Licenses especially because it's in the cloud."
"Its UI can be easier and more customer-friendly. The UI can be improved from the project management and agile perspective."
"It is not that intuitive. Sometimes, it is hard to find some of the functions. I would like to have an old-fashioned menu structure to be able to easily find things. Its environment setup is not very good. They should improve the way it is set up for different screens and make it easier to find functionalities and maintain team members."
"Some of the queries, the way they're built, need to be looked at. We need better query tools."
"They have to add more features such as schedules and more flexibility in the platform."
"We did have some brief performance issues, however, that was due to putting everything on one epic instead of breaking a project up."
"The administrative capabilities of the tool need a huge improvement. Its Wiki and reporting also need a lot of improvement. Their support can also be better."
"The solution requires some Linux knowledge."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"Some of the modules in Ansible could be a bit more mature. There is still a little room for further development. Some performance aspects could be improved, perhaps in the form of parallelism within Ansible."
"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."
"It could be easier to integrate Ansible with other solutions. No single tool can do everything. For example, we use Terraform for infrastructure and other solutions for configuration management and VMs."
"Improvements should be made in terms of execution speed, which is, I believe, the most lacking feature. Aside from that, re-triggering a failed task is another useful feature."
"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."
"On the Dashboard, when you view a template run, it shows all the output. There is a search filter, but it would be nice to able to select one server in that run and then see all that output from just that one server, instead of having to do the search on that one server and find the results."
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Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Release Automation with 127 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 3rd in Release Automation with 58 reviews. Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling". 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". Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, TFS, Rally Software and Asana, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Intune and BMC TrueSight Server Automation. See our Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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