Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

There are many alternatives to (R)?ex for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to (R)?ex and seven of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to (R)?ex are Salt, Puppet, Chef and Cfengine.
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.


Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.

Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers.
CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission critical IT infrastructure.
Release Management for Visual Studio is a continuous delivery solution that automates the release process through various environments all the way to production.
Config is a SaaS tool for Configuration File Management created for Programmers, Sysadmins, and IT Managers. It is the easiest way to manage your config files across all your servers and environments.
