Open Source Ansible Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Ansible for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is Puppet. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Ansible and 13 are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to Ansible are Salt, Chef, Rudder and OpenTofu.

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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.

    44 Puppet alternatives

    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
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    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.

    39 Chef alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    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. 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
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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.

    16 Pulumi alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. GruCloud icon
     2 likes

    GruCloud is a low/no-code infrastructure as a code tool. It can generate code from live infrastructure, and deploy resources to the cloud from code. Benefit from infrastructure as code without the hassle of manually authoring the infrastructure description.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Yoke icon
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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
     
  9. chezmoi icon
     9 likes

    Dotfiles manager through a version control system.

    13 chezmoi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Mac
     
  10. (R)?ex icon
     18 likes

    (R)?ex - manage all your boxes from a central point - Datacenter Automation and Configuration Management

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Cfengine icon
     8 likes

    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
     
  12. filetailor icon
     2 likes

    filetailor is a peer-based configuration management utility for plain-text files (and directories) such as dotfiles. Files are backed up to a specified folder using filetailor, transferred to another device using tools such as Nextcloud or Syncthing, and then restored on other...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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