Ansible Control Node on CentOS 8 Pros and Cons

AS

Verified User in Security and Investigations

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/2/2024

"Excellent review for Ansibke controlnode"

5/5

What do you like best about Ansible Control Node on CentOS 8?

It is best to use and thanks to the service providing by Ansible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansible Control Node on CentOS 8?

There is no fault from the support providing it is best to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AK

Aditya K.

Lead Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/13/2022

"Ansible review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Ansible Control Node on CentOS 8?

Ansible is a very flexible framework wherein you can run ansible commands manually (like attached in the screenshot) to check or change configuration on single/multiple nodes from the node where ansible is installed or ansible node. You can also make several ".yml" playbooks that you can run instead on running ansible commands manually. Creating playbooks is easy and one can learn how to create stages of playbook within a week. For eg, i have been given a task to remove nodes from hdp to cdp cluster and since cdp cluster has different kerberos principals, i had made a playbook that finds the ols hdp kerberos principals and delete them post which I can add the nodes in my cdp cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansible Control Node on CentOS 8?

Ansible is very powerful hence you need to use it with caution. The more number of nodes in the inventory list, the bigger the risk is. So make sure to double check your ansible command if you are running it on a big inventory. We have clusters wherein sometimes we need to make changes to 100+ nodes at a time.Now we use ansible to make changes but in case a wrong command is ran, it will run in all the 100 nodes and it can be disruptive.

Frankly there is nothing to dislike about ansible but yes you need to be careful as you probably will be using ansible to make changes to multiple nodes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ansible Control Node on CentOS 8 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ansible is solving multiple use cases for us. let me jot down the ones that i use frequently:

1. ansible playbook to delete kerberos principal from old hdp cluster

2.ansible playbook to do sanity on nodes such as to check status of selinux, java version , python version etc

3. Installation of Java, python ,anaconda , sssd , httpd, ntpd on new nodes

4. Enabling passwordless ssh between nodes

5.Deletion of /tmp data from nodes when the size reaches 85% in /tmp Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DP

DISHA p.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/4/2022

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Good for configuring deployments over cloud platforms like AWS"

4/5

What do you like best about Ansible Control Node on CentOS 8?

Auto Scaling feature and familiar YMAL syntax. Easier to use for someone who has used Kubernetes before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ansible Control Node on CentOS 8?

Unable to track the current status of deployments like in Terraform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.