Open-source alternative  ·  Automation / Workflow

Replace Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with AWX.

AWX: Ansible Tower CE

AWX is the open source upstream of Ansible Tower / Automation Platform. Web GUI, REST API, RBAC, job scheduling, and inventory management for Ansible playbooks. Self-hosted, no per-node fees.

You'd keep~R144 300 to ~R277 500/year

Current licence  ·  Automation / Workflow

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

~R144 300 – ~R277 500/yr

10-user estimate

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AWX

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R277 500/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard (up to 100 nodes)

R144 300/yr

R12 025/month

Flat rate

With AWX

Keep R144 300/yr

Premium (unlimited)

R277 500/yr

R23 125/month

Flat rate

With AWX

Keep R277 500/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform grows around 10% per year on average. AWX hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR123kR246kR369kR492kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R448kR28k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.98M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Red Hat Ansible Automation PlatformAWX (Ansible Tower CE), in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

Same category

Other automation / workflow migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Migrate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.