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 functionality of the solution is excellent."
"The sandboxing feature is very important."
"The hardware is reliable, and their support is excellent."
"The initial setup is relatively easy."
"FortiGate Cloud's key features are the user interface and ease of access."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is easy to use."
"We use the solution as a firewall."
"The most valuable features are management and integration."
"It has an easy-to-use interface. It is REST API driven, and it integrates with Active Directory. It provides the ability to grant permissions to other users who would not necessarily have those permissions via the GUI so that they could run other people's jobs. For example, you could have the Oracle team grant permissions to the Linux team so that they can use each of those playbooks or each other's code. It is called shift-left."
"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."
"I like the fact that Ansible is agentless."
"Some colleagues and other companies use it and comment that it is easy to use, easy to understand, and offers good features."
"The solution can scale."
"It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well."
"The biggest thing I liked about Ansible is the check mode so that we can verify, after we've pushed, that the config there is actually what we intended."
"The capacity to execute the solution needs to be improved. I would like to see management and analytics included in the solution."
"Currently with the solution, if you want to manage more than one FortiGate you have to use a VM, and a VM can control up to 10."
"The platform's reporting and analysis capabilities need improvement."
"We are seeking a solution that can monitor our network traffic running through 17 firewalls in Malaysia and Indonesia. We want a solution that can record and monitor all the logs from all the firewalls. We want to consolidate all our firewalls into one portal so we can monitor all the activities from all the firewalls."
"The solution’s pricing and stability could be improved."
"The interface and dashboards should improve in Fortinet FortiGate Cloud. Other solutions have better graphical interfaces."
"Its price should be better."
"They're still trying to digest that Meru acquisition and need a plan."
"The communication on it is not probably where it could be. We could use some real life examples where we could point customers to them and say, "This is what you are trying to do. If you follow these steps, it would at least get you started a bit quicker.""
"The area which I feel can be improved is the custom modules. For example, there are something like 106 official modules available in the Ansible library. A year ago, that number was somewhere around 58. While Ansible is improving day by day, this can be improved more. For instance, when you need to configure in the cloud, you need to write up a module for that."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"The scalability of the solution has some shortcomings."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"Networking needs to be improved."
"Documentation could be improved. Many times, if I'm looking for something, I have to Google it in a lot of places, then figure out what the best approach will be. There are some best practices documents, but they don't give you the information."
"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 Skybox Security Suite, 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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