We performed a comparison between HashiCorp Terraform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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."The mobile application management, MAM, is the most useful aspect of the solution."
"The Microsoft Windows Autopilot and Defender policies are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It's easy to manage."
"The device profiling which uses the official Outlook email enabled us to control the screenshot feature and prevent copying outside of the organization's application."
"The technical support of Microsoft Intune is good."
"It provides control over all mobile devices that are being connected to the corporate network."
"Configuration profiles, remediation, scripts, and auto-pilot features are very good."
"For our office workers who are not based in Norway, when we order the PC, we can do some of the settings for them. These are standardized settings. We can set them up exactly as they are in Norway so that they're the same."
"The ARM template is very easy to work with, which is a big help to us."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the great community support."
"It is the customization of Terraform's modules that I find most valuable."
"The state backend, automated describe functionality, modular structures, and variablization using templates are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the support for different platforms like cloud, datacenters, VCS, databases, various storage types, and Kubernetes."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Terraform is the custom modules."
"The most valuable feature is the solution does not need installation."
"The most valuable features of the solution are automation and patching."
"It has made our infrastructure more testable. We are able to build our infrastructure in CI, then are more confident in what we are deploying will work, not breaking everything."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is quite stable. If you set it up correctly with the right configurations and there are no hiccups during installation and deployment, it will be stable. I'd give stability a rating of eight out of ten."
"Ansible provides great reliability when coupled with a versioning system (git). It helps providing predictability to the network by knowing exactly what's being pushed after validating it in production."
"The most useful features are the playbooks. We can develop our playbooks and simplify them doing something like a cross platform."
"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."
"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."
"Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."
"The security features should be improved."
"Microsoft Intune lacks the ability to provide seamless remote assistance or remote control."
"Due to the abundance of features, there's a lot to organize, which makes managing and setting up the solution challenging. The setup is immense, and it would be good to see improvement in this area."
"The configuration could be better by consolidating options and making it simpler."
"There are items that require improvements. One is the controls from iOS."
"I'd suggest adding more features for macOS in Intune. There should be more functionality for managing macOS. There should be a better capability for pushing things down on macOS. Currently, Intune is not capable of managing macOS at the same level as Windows."
"It would be better if they can reduce the cost of the license."
"The reports aren't complete, and it's not easy to build custom reports. For example, Windows Autopilot isn't working well in cases where the computers don't have a good internet connection. Then the option is not good enough."
"On occasion, I have noticed a number of bugs in this solution that have needed to be fixed."
"They should include tutorials for understanding the use cases."
"The product must improve DevOps features."
"The solution is missing a lot of properties for specific resources."
"This solution could be improved by adding features such as CDM to accelerate the access of data by the users."
"The solution is complex when we use it for a loop. This is a problem, not because of the language itself, but because of how the infrastructure generally works. It's different from Python."
"The syntax is a bit difficult, and it would great if it could be easier."
"It should have a more object-oriented approach like different coding languages."
"Because Ansible is establishing SSH sessions to perform tasks, there is a limit on scalability."
"The product could do a better job at building infrastructure."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"The job workflow needs to be worked on. It's not really clear to how you actually link things together. What they probably could do is provide an example workflow on how to stitch things together. I think that would be very helpful."
"It is a little slow on the network side because every time you call a module, it's initiating an SSH or an API call to a network device, and it just slows things down."
"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..."
"The scalability of the solution has some shortcomings."
"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."
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HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 6th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. HashiCorp Terraform is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. 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 Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, SaltStack, Red Hat Satellite, SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor and BMC TrueSight Server Automation, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and AWS Systems Manager. See our HashiCorp Terraform vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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