We performed a comparison between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Satellite based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Ansible has a slight edge over Satellite in this comparison since it is a free solution and easier to deploy than Satellite.
"It is user-friendly, and the performance is also good. It is a convenient product"
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"It is very easy to use. It has a very easy interface."
"The stability of Microsoft Intune is good."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"It is a very helpful solution."
"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."
"It's easy to manage."
"There are no agents by default, so adding a new server is a matter of a couple lines of configuration (on a new server and the configuration master)."
"The automation is the most valuable feature."
"The reason I like Ansible is, first, the coding of it is very straightforward, it's very human-readable. I'm also on a contract, and I can clearly iterate and bring people up to speed very quickly on writing a Playbook compared with writing up a Puppet manifest or a Salt script."
"Ansible is agentless. So, we don't need to set up any agent into the computer we are interacting with. The only prerequisite is that the host with which we are going to interact must have the Python interpreter installed on it. We can connect to a host and do our configuration by using Ansible."
"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."
"I like the fact that Ansible is agentless."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is vulnerability 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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the management of the distributed tool we use in the Red Hat Linux Servers."
"Patch management is, for sure, most valuable. For license management and patch management, I would rate it a 10 out of 10."
"Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups."
"The product allows us to handle patching for multiple servers at a time manually."
"You don't need to depend on any third party. It's a complete solution for patch and configuration management when integrated with the existing system."
"Intune lags all of its competitors in terms of report generation."
"Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options."
"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."
"In future releases, I would like to see better integration with Apple products."
"There are a couple of issues with stability."
"Intune does not provide real-time visibility."
"The reporting could be improved, as it's pretty poor compared to other products of this type."
"It's the granularity: 'Is your firewall on? Is BitLocker on?' It's not amazing granularity. But I've looked into other products, like Duo, and they're all similar."
"The documentation for the installation step of deployment, OpenStack, etc., and these things have to be a bit more detailed."
"Because Ansible is establishing SSH sessions to perform tasks, there is a limit on scalability."
"The governance features could be improved."
"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 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."
"They should think of this product as an end-to-end solution and begin to develop it that way."
"The scalability of the solution has some shortcomings."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is not the best at server provisioning. Terraform is better."
"The solution's initial setup is a little bit tricky."
"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. The licensing is a bit expensive."
"Regarding the product's ability to support third-party tools, Red Hat doesn't support all the layers from the open-source version of Linux."
"The documentation could be better."
"They could make it more easy to use and improve the GUI so that it's more intuitive."
"It is difficult to update and maintain."
"I would like the direct integration with insights to be re-established."
"Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update."
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews while Red Hat Satellite is ranked 4th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Satellite is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Its agentless, making the deployment fast and easy". 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". Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps, BMC TrueSight Server Automation and BigFix, whereas Red Hat Satellite is most compared with SUSE Manager, Microsoft Configuration Manager, AWS Systems Manager, BigFix and Chef. See our Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform vs. Red Hat Satellite report.
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