This article helps explain the differences between Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform and other common open source automation tools. It’s also important to understand the level of community support for each product and what each is primarily engineered to do, such as provisioning, configuration management, and compliance.Ĭlearly, there are many considerations when choosing an automation software for your business.
Other factors to keep in mind when evaluating automation tools include architecture (is it agent-based or agentless?), programming (is it declarative or procedural?), and language (is it data-serialized or domain-specific?). Indeed, many IT organizations today use more than one automation tool, and a major consideration is how well they work together to achieve business goals. There’s not a single 'right' approach-you can automate your enterprise in multiple ways. Choosing the automation solution that works best for your organization is no easy task.