Ansible Alternatives

Apps similar to Ansible include Salt, which is free and open source. Other options are Nix Package Manager, Terraform, Puppet and Codify CLI. You're spoiled for choice with Server Management Tools like Ansible: we list more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, self-hosting and the web.

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    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
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  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. chezmoi icon
     11 likes

    Dotfiles manager through a version control system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Mac
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  4. 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
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  5. 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.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. 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
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  7. CTO.ai icon
     1 like

    The CTO.ai platform allows you and your software development team to implement DevOps automations in minutes rather than days by runnings "Ops" in Slack and the CLI. Leverage a curated inventory of DevOps workflows to adopt int your development cycles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  8. Propellor is a configuration management system using Haskell and Git. Each system has a list of properties, which Propellor ensures are satisfied. Linux and FreeBSD are supported.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9. cdist icon
     7 likes

    cdist is an alternative to other configuration management systems like cfengine, bcfg2, chef and puppet. But cdist ticks differently.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  10. DCImanager icon
     65 likes

    DCImanager 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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  11. DebOps icon
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    The DebOps project is a set of Free and Open Source tools that let users bootstrap and manage an IT infrastructure based on Debian or Ubuntu operating systems. Ansible is used as the main configuration management platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  12. Commando.io icon
     7 likes

    A simpler way to manage servers online. Commando.io empowers users to be more efficient, improve their workflow, and eliminate anxiety over server provisioning, maintenance, and deployment. DropBox simplified online storage, GitHub simplified revision control, Commando.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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