How industries are solving challenges using Ansible

Companies using Ansible

We have data on 8,781 companies that use Ansible. The companies using Ansible are most often found in United States and in the Computer Software industry. Ansible is most often used by companies with 50-200 employees and 10M-50M dollars in revenue. Our data for Ansible usage goes back as far as 3 years and 4 months.

Ansible Market Share and Competitors in Software Configuration Management

We use the best indexing techniques combined with advanced data science to monitor the market share of over 12,500 technology products, including Software Configuration Management. By scanning billions of public documents, we are able to collect deep insights on every company, with over 100 data fields per company at an average. In the Software Configuration Management category, Ansible has a market share of about 4.0%. Other major and competing products in this category include:

What is Ansible?

Ansible is a simple way to automate apps and infrastructure. It includes Application Deployment, Configuration Management and Continuous Delivery.

Top Industries that use Ansible

How google is using Ansible

Ansible + Google have been working together on a set of auto-generated Ansible modules designed to consistently and comprehensively cover the entirety of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Ansible contains modules for managing Google Cloud Platform resources, including creating instances, controlling network access, working with persistent disks, managing load balancers, and a lot more.

These new modules can be found under a new consistent name scheme “gcp_*” (Note: gcp_target_proxy and gcp_url_map are legacy modules, despite the “gcp_*” name. Please use gcp_compute_target_proxy and gcp_compute_url_map instead).

Additionally, the gcp_compute inventory plugin can discover all Google Compute Engine (GCE) instances and make them automatically available in your Ansible inventory.

You may see a collection of other GCP modules that do not conform to this naming convention. These are the original modules primarily developed by the Ansible community. You will find some overlapping functionality such as with the “gce” module and the new “gcp_compute_instance” module. Either can be used, but you may experience issues trying to use them together.

While the community GCP modules are not going away, Google is investing effort into the new “gcp_*” modules. Google is committed to ensuring the Ansible community has a great experience with GCP and therefore recommends adopting these new modules if possible.

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