Open Source Ansible Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Ansible is Puppet. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Ansible and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Ansible are Salt, Chef, pyinfra and Nix Package Manager.

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  1. Puppet icon
     53 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  2. Salt icon
     48 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Salt vs Ansible Comments
    psi4ick
    Positive
    0

    Saltstack is stateful and supports features allowing to manage thousands of systems simulataneously

    • Salt is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
    • Salt is LightweightAnsible is not according to our users
  3. Chef icon
     31 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    1
    Chef vs Ansible Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Jenkins and the other platforms listed are more build tools rather than a server configuration tool.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Chef is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
  4. pyinfra icon
     13 likes

    pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.

    9 pyinfra alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    pyinfra vs Ansible Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    nogajun
    0

    It is faster than Ansible and allows you to write configurations more concisely.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    adabru
    Positive
    1

    I don't need to wait as long for pyinfra as I did for ansible. Furthermore as it is everything python, I can extend its logging if needed. I had logging problems with ansible.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Ben Pro
    Positive
    1

    KISS spirit, very powerful and easy to learn.

    3 of 5 comments
    • pyinfra is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
    • pyinfra is LightweightAnsible is not according to our users
  5. Nix is a powerful package manager for macOS, Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup...

    56 Nix Package Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Nix Package Manager vs Ansible Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Solves many of the same problems but with a different philosophy.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Nix Package Manager is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
    • Nix Package Manager is Privacy focused and LightweightAnsible is not according to our users
  6. Rudder icon
     27 likes

    Rudder 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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • Self-Hosted
    • CentOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Slackware
     
  7. OpenTofu icon
     6 likes

    OpenTofu is an OSS tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. OpenTofu can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  8. Fabric icon
     21 likes

    Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

    25 Fabric alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Fabric vs Ansible Comments
    2xM
    Positive
    1

    Only requires SSH and if you're familiar to Python and the command line, you know everything to start automation of administrative tasks on remote hosts.

    • Fabric is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
  9. Pulumi icon
     12 likes

    Pulumi is a cloud development platform. Replace YAML and DSLs with pure code. Code, deploy, manage cloud apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10.  5 likes

    Crowbar is an Open Source platform for server provisioning and deployment from bare metal. It provides server discovery, firmware upgrades, and operating system installation using PXE Boot. It deploys applications on top of functioning operating systems using whatever config...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Uyuni icon
     1 like

    Uyuni is a solution for organizations that require absolute control over maintenance and package deployment on their servers. It lets you manage large sets of Linux systems and keep them upto date, with automated software management, asset management, and system provisioning.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. RunDeck icon
     15 likes

    RunDeck is an open source automation service with a web console, command line tools and a WebAPI. It lets you easily run automation tasks across a set of nodes.

    31 RunDeck alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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