amazon.aws VS azure

Compare amazon.aws vs azure and see what are their differences.

amazon.aws

Ansible Collection for Amazon AWS (by ansible-collections)

azure

Development area for Azure Collections (by ansible-collections)
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amazon.aws azure
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270 227
1.9% 4.0%
9.3 9.1
5 days ago 5 days ago
Python Python
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amazon.aws

Posts with mentions or reviews of amazon.aws. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.
  • The Bullhorn #115 (Ansible Newsletter)
    2 projects | /r/ansible | 13 Sep 2023
    amazon.aws 6.4.0 has been released with a new module named amazon.aws.ec2_key_info, some documentation improvements, new features and bugfixes (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #105 (Ansible Newsletter)
    4 projects | /r/ansible | 12 Jun 2023
    amazon.aws 5.5.1 has been released with several bugfixes (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #102 (Ansible Newsletter)
    9 projects | /r/ansible | 16 May 2023
    amazon.aws 5.5.0 has been released with a number of bugfixes, new features and new modules. This is the last planned minor release prior to the release of version 6.0.0 (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #97 (Ansible Newsletter)
    5 projects | /r/ansible | 5 Apr 2023
    amazon.aws 5.4.0 has been released with bugfixes for the ec2_metadata_facts, ec2_vol, rds_instance and route53_info modules, as well as feature enhancements for the ec2_spot_instance and route53_health_check modules - see changelog for details.
  • is it just me, or does RH's docs on AAP just suck?
    2 projects | /r/ansible | 30 Dec 2022
    Hi folks! I'm one of the docs writers for community Ansible (aka docs.ansible.com, not access.redhat.com). It sounds like you've found a place to log your docs problems already but I did open an issue on the amazon.aws collection directly to handle the examples that aren't quoted for `filters` at https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1331
  • The Bullhorn #77 (Ansible Newsletter)
    6 projects | /r/ansible | 7 Oct 2022
    The amazon.aws collection version 5.0.0 has been released. See the changelog for details on new modules and features.
  • The Bullhorn #64 (Ansible Newsletter)
    5 projects | /r/ansible | 24 Jun 2022
    amazon.aws 4.0.0 has been released with some new features, bugfixes, breaking changes and deprecated features. The amazon.aws collection has also dropped support for botocore<1.20.0 and boto3<1.17.0 (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #52 (Ansible Newsletter)
    5 projects | /r/ansible | 31 Mar 2022
    amazon.aws 2.2.0 has been released with bug-fixes (see changelog for details).
  • The Bullhorn #46 (Ansible Newsletter)
    10 projects | /r/ansible | 17 Feb 2022
    amazon.aws 3.1.1 has been released with some new features, bugfixes and a deprecation (see changelog for details). 3.1.0 failed to publish on Galaxy, hence, we had to bump the release version.
  • The Bullhorn #44 (Ansible Newsletter - now weekly!)
    7 projects | /r/ansible | 3 Feb 2022
    The AWS community has begun planning for the 4.0.0 releases of amazon.aws and community.aws. Please see the linked issues for more details or to get involved.

azure

Posts with mentions or reviews of azure. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-03.
  • The Bullhorn #114 (Ansible Newsletter)
    11 projects | /r/ansible | 3 Sep 2023
    There is already a successor collection, azure.azcollection, in the community package which should cover the same functionality.
  • anisble galaxy module from azure/azcollection does not work with the Microsoft Graph API?
    1 project | /r/ansible | 4 Jul 2023
    Looks like there is a work in progress PR to fix this in https://github.com/ansible-collections/azure/pull/1112
  • Ansible "Module not found"
    1 project | /r/ansible | 17 Nov 2021
  • "Secret" Agent Exposes Azure Customers to Unauthorized Code Execution
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2021
    https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent - I think this is the equivalence of GCP guest-agent, serving similar functionalities, and is pre-installed on all official images, otherwise basic things like authentication and image baking will break.

    By setting the provisionVMAgent property to false when creating a virtual machine, WALinuxAgent should run with all extensions disabled, and I think that's as minimal as a Linux VM can go on Azure.

    This property, however, can't be set via https://github.com/ansible-collections/azure, which is of course another lovely OSS project by Microsoft. I didn't bother to send a PR.

    The OMI agent seems to be a different beast that is way more obnoxious. The closest thing on GCP is probably the collectd agent and the fluentd agent installed for Stackdriver Monitoring and Stackdriver Logging? Plus whatever OS config to enable unattended upgrades.

    I just learnt from this HN thread about the SSM agent on AWS. That one does seem equally obnoxious as the OMI agent.

  • PowerShell or C#. Which one should I learn for automation?
    1 project | /r/AZURE | 23 Jun 2021
    https://github.com/ansible-collections/azure or https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/azure/azcollection/index.html#plugins-in-azure-azcollection or https://galaxy.ansible.com/azure/azcollection are all for the same project that manages the azure ansible modules.
  • azure_rm and 'subscription_id' or 'AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID'
    1 project | /r/ansible | 4 Mar 2021
    So I created a bug - 445

What are some alternatives?

When comparing amazon.aws and azure you can also consider the following projects:

community - This repository is being archived. See https://github.com/ansible-community/presentations and https://github.com/ansible-community/meetings for the new locations

Azure PowerShell - Microsoft Azure PowerShell

community.aws - Ansible Collection for Community AWS

guest-agent

awx-operator - An Ansible AWX operator for Kubernetes built with Operator SDK and Ansible. 🤖

community.zabbix - Zabbix Ansible modules

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

WALinuxAgent - Microsoft Azure Linux Guest Agent

awx - AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

omi - Open Management Infrastructure

ansible-meraki - Cisco Meraki Ansible Collection

rasa - 💬 Open source machine learning framework to automate text- and voice-based conversations: NLU, dialogue management, connect to Slack, Facebook, and more - Create chatbots and voice assistants