Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.
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Puppet Alternatives for Linux
There are many alternatives to Puppet for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Puppet and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Puppet are Salt, Chef, Foreman and Rudder.
Alternatives list
54 Ansible alternatives
Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.
39 Chef alternativesChef 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.
27 Foreman alternativesForeman is an open source project that helps system administrators manage servers throughout their lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and monitoring. Using Puppet or Chef and Foreman's smart proxy architecture, you can easily automate repetitive...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
13 Rudder alternativesRudder is a solution for automating your IT infrastructure to ensure security, reliability and compliance of your systems, whatever the OS. Gain instant visibility of IT compliance and benefit from continuous remediation to ensure an environment well configured and secured.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- SUSE Linux Enterprise
- Self-Hosted
- CentOS
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- Raspberry Pi OS
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Slackware
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33 DCImanager alternativesDCImanager automates dedicated server provisioning, multivendor infrastructure, and colocation. Features: OS installation, IP assignment, traffic/energy monitoring, SAN/NAS management, bulk BIOS/BMC updates, auto-discovery, DC map, self-service portal, billing integration.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Linux
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9 pyinfra alternativespyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
- Python
- Mac
- Windows
CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission critical IT infrastructure.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
Juju is an enterprise Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) that provides model-driven application management and next-generation infrastructure-as-code.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Go (Programming Language)
Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks.
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I can hardly say that Puppet and Ansible should be in the same DCIM category.