Ansible

ansible.com · Durham, United States of America

Ansible (by Red Hat) provides an open-source IT automation platform that allows organizations to automate provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration across on-premises and cloud environments. It serves enterprises, service providers, and IT teams by offering both a free open-source tool and commercial products and subscriptions, including Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, sold via Red Hat’s enterprise sales and partner channels. The software uses an agentless, YAML-based approach to define and execute automation workflows at scale.

  • Cloud Infrastructure & Hosting
  • IT Consulting & Implementation
  • Business Process Management
Revenue
$150.0M
Employees
450
Founded
2013
Headquarters
Durham, United States of America

What 29 Arbolus experts think of Ansible

The NPS distribution is strongly positive: a majority of scores are 8 or above, with several perfect 10s. Renewal intent is high, especially among high spenders and Influencers, indicating robust satisfaction and low churn risk among key user groups. Most experts are in the MoreThan1Year implementation stage, demonstrating mature adoption and sustained value realization. Key feedback themes highlight scalability, ease of use, and agentless automation as strengths, while large-scale environment management and integration depth remain areas to watch.Overall Customer Sentiment: Positive

Who reviewed Ansible

Total customers 29 29 current · 0 former
Reviews growth +21 in six months
Seniority of respondents
  • C-Suite 43% (12)
  • Director 13% (4)
  • Manager 43% (12)
Operations Manager Not specified NPS 8
Engineering Leader Manager NPS 9
Engineering Engineer C-Suite NPS 9

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Sentiment

58 Net Promoter Score, from 29 scored reviews
  • Promoters 18
  • Passives 10
  • Detractors 1

Cumulative NPS by month

+0 over 6 months
  • Apr 9
  • May 9
  • Jun 9
  • Jul 9
  • Aug 9
  • Sep 9

Net Promoter Score across 3 reviews, accumulated up to each month. Category median 50 across 3 companies.

Praised

  • Scalability and Measurable Benefits
  • Integration Across Environments
  • Agentless Automation and Versatility
  • Enterprise-Wide Impact Potential

Criticised

  • Cost Escalation
  • Competitive Replacement Risk
  • Feature and Integration Gaps
  • Playbook Complexity and Ownership

What customers say

Scalability and Measurable Benefits
“Increasing investment in Ansible gives us clear reductions in manual effort, lowers risk, accelerates delivery, and improves operational capacity without increasing staffing.”
Integration Across Environments
“Ansible’s compatibility and extensive platform support allow me to repeatedly automate complex workflows, fitting seamlessly into our pre-existing processes.”
Agentless Automation and Versatility
“I appreciate that Ansible automates various infrastructure and application tasks without the need for agents, resulting in fewer manual interventions and easier adoption.”

Renewal intent

Plan to renew 82%
  • Will renew 9
  • Undecided 2
  • Not renewing 0

Plan to renew, by seniority

  • C-Suite 71% 7 answers
  • Director 100% 2 answers
  • Not specified 100% 2 answers
  • 8.7/10 Average score from customers who will renew
  • 9/10 Average score from undecided customers

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