Open Source Ansible Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Salt

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Server Management

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • United States

   

   

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   Positive comment by psi4ick · Mar 12, 2019

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

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   • Salt is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
   • Salt is LightweightAnsible is not according to our users
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   pyinfra

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   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)

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Python
   • Mac
   • Windows

   • United Kingdom

   

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   Top Positive Comment by Guest · Nov 25, 2020

   Usable without a PhD in a couple of minutes.

   Positive comment by nogajun · Aug 17, 2025

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

   Positive comment by adabru · Dec 1, 2023

   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.

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   • pyinfra is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
   • pyinfra is LightweightAnsible is not according to our users
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   Nix Package Manager

    30 likes

   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...

   59 Nix Package Manager alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-2.1)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Package Manager
   • Software Installer

   Origin

   • Netherlands
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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   Positive comment by Guest · Jun 3, 2025

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

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   • Nix Package Manager is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
   • Nix Package Manager is a Package Manager Ansible is a Server Management Tool
   • Nix Package Manager is Privacy focused and LightweightAnsible is not according to our users
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   Puppet

    52 likes

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

   44 Puppet alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Online

   • United States

   

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   Chef

    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

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Server Management

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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   Positive comment by Guest · Nov 2, 2018

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

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   • Chef is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
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   Rudder

    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

   • Paid
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • SUSE Linux Enterprise
   • Self-Hosted
   • CentOS
   • Ubuntu
   • Debian
   • Raspberry Pi OS
   • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
   • Slackware

   • France
   • EU

   

   

   

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   OpenTofu

    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

   • Free
   • Open Source (MPL-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • Windows

   

   

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    Uyuni

     2 likes

    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.

    7 Uyuni alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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    Pulumi

     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

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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    Crowbar

     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

    • Server Management

    Platforms

    • Linux

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    Fabric

     21 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Server Management

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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    Positive comment by 2xM · Sep 13, 2017

    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.

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    • Fabric is Free and Open SourceAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
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    Yoke

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    The Yoke Project is a set of tools for working with package management differently than the status quo. Where once only YAML and templates of YAML ruled the representation of Kubernetes resources and the packages thereof, we can now work with code and benefit from native control...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows

    

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