We do have a GUI/REST-API company product that sits on top of Ansible that adds things like role based access control, centralized logging, and so on. This is not an enterprise version of Ansible, but an additional offering.
By making this commercial we can produce a really high quality product by hiring some top notch developers, and can move forward at a faster pace.
There are no proprietary modules for Ansible that we hold back, but enterprise companies do have more stringent requirements for tools and that's where we draw the line.
For many users, Ansible will continue to be all they need, and that's fine with us too!.
For reference, here's information about our commercial product:
Thanks for the great tool! I think the GUI and REST API a pay-for service was a smart decision and will hopefully allow you guys to keep building out the project while also making a living.
Not sure where the confusion about Ansible being not fully opensource comes from. And it's not as though Salt doesn't have enterprise support and tool integration that you can pay for too.
As I noted earlier, conf management has so many facets and reasons for being implemented that no one tool will ever win a battle. Honestly I'm happy to have such a wide open space right now with so many great and open source projects in it. When I started developing web apps 10 years ago, there was nothing that begins to approach the robustness of all four big players in this arena right now.
Thank you to all the hardworking contributors, paid and unpaid, to Puppet, Chef, Salt and Ansible. Thank you!
