2 categories · RankedAnsible
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure as code | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 6 of 46 | 8% | 39 | accepted challenger |
| Secrets management | Identity and access | 0% | 26 of 40 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Doppler at 33% |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Start here: Terraform/OpenTofu + Ansible (provision + config).” Grok 4.1 Fast · IaC · negative prompt · first choice
“For almost all new projects, Red Hat Ansible is the default recommendation because it is agentless and uses standard YAML.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · alternative
“Ansible | Agentless, simpler than Chef/Puppet for configuration tasks (but still not a provisioner)” Kimi K2 · IaC · negative prompt · alternative
“Choose Ansible if your main need is configuration management, not infrastructure provisioning.” Perplexity Sonar · IaC · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Not a full IaC tool for provisioning (more for configuration management), state management is less robust.” MiniMax M2.5 · IaC · direct prompt · soft negative
“Ansible | Agent-based (can be seen as less "infrastructure-as-code" than others), scalability concerns” MiniMax M2.5 · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative
“Secret mismanagement is often present in tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Secrets · negative prompt · soft negative
“Ansible/Puppet – More config management than provisioning” MiniMax M2.5 · IaC · scale prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 83 of the 103 answers that named Ansible and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
341 of the 341 domain citations in answers naming Ansible came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Ansible
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