We performed a comparison between Nolio Release Automation and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, GitLab, Red Hat and others in Release Automation."One standout aspect is its architecture. We can configure multiple instances on a single server using different system names or usernames."
"The graphical view of when you're writing flow is the most valuable feature."
"The CA Application Insight feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It is agentless. I don't have to think about which client system my unit has understanding in or not, because I can execute from my system. It will go and configure it, and any module that it is looking for will be shipped out."
"It does not require staff for deployment and maintenance. It just works."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"Since it is in YAML, if I have to explain it to somebody else, they can easily understand it."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"This solution allows us to stitch a lot of different parts of the workflow together."
"The solution is capable of integrating with many applications and devices in comparison to BigFix."
"It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well."
"In the next release, I would like to see more features to use active directory. And more rules to support more Python scripts and to work with Kubernetes and clouds, to have an easy solution for a lot of parameters."
"A concern with CA Release Automation is that Automic was acquired by CA recently. We're a bit concerned that CA strategy is going with Automic, that CA Release Automation is dead. They are not investing in it too much... They do say, that in the next two or three years we don't need to worry. They will still provide support for CA Release Automation. But we're not sure how CA Release Automation will evolve."
"The configuration of the solution is a bit difficult to maneuver. They should work to make it easier."
"When I started using Nolio around eight months ago, a challenge was the lack of relevant information and related support for learning."
"It could use better integration with development tools."
"For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation."
"There are some options not available in the community edition of the solution."
"There needs to be improvement in the orchestration."
"The documentation for the installation step of deployment, OpenStack, etc., and these things have to be a bit more detailed."
"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."
"For Ansible Tower, there are three tiers with ten nodes. I would like them to expand those ten nodes to 20, because ten nodes is not enough to test on."
"Accessibility. Ansible uses a CLI by default. Those accustomed to it can find their way and adopt the YAML files easily over time. But, some users are more comfortable using UIs..."
"When you set up Playbooks, I may have one version of the Playbook, but another member of the team may have a different vision, and we will not know which version is correct. We want to have one central repository for managing the different versions of Playbooks, so we can have better collaboration among team members. This is our use case for using Git version control."
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Nolio Release Automation is ranked 13th in Release Automation with 50 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 3rd in Release Automation with 58 reviews. Nolio Release Automation is rated 7.8, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Nolio Release Automation writes " Enables one-touch application deployment across various environments". 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". Nolio Release Automation is most compared with GitLab, Chef, Microsoft Azure DevOps, UrbanCode Deploy and Automic Continuous Delivery Automation, 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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