Free Ansible Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Puppet

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   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

   

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   Salt

    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

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Server Management

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

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   psi4ick

   Positive comment•Mar 12, 2019

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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
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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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   Guest

   Positive comment•Nov 2, 2018

   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
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   pyinfra

    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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   Top Positive Comment

   nogajun

   Aug 17, 2025

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

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   adabru

   Positive comment•Dec 1, 2023

   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 comment•Jan 19, 2021

   1

   KISS spirit, very powerful and easy to learn.

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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

    29 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...

   57 Nix Package Manager alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-2.1)

   Application types

   • Package Manager
   • Software Installer

   Origin

   • Netherlands
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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   Guest

   Positive comment•Jun 3, 2025

   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
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   Terraform

    20 likes

   Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

   18 Terraform alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Nathaniel Waisbrot

   Positive comment•Apr 1, 2021

   1

   Terraform is primarilly for creating infrastructure and Ansible is primarilly for configuring machines. Both offer tools in the other's domain and both offerings are disappointing there.

   I've been fairly happy using Terraform to create VMs and then trigger Ansible to configure them.

   Guest

   Negative comment•Apr 9, 2020

   -3

   Terraform is for provisioning cloud devices, and Ansible is for bare-metal automation.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • Terraform is Free and ProprietaryAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
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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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    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.

    25 Fabric alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Server Management

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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    2xM

    Positive comment•Sep 13, 2017

    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
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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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    Codify CLI

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    Describe your MacOS development environment using JSON configurations. Codify will do the rest. Create reproducible, shareable, and consistent environments using Codify, individually and for a team.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    • Package Manager
    • Software Installer

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

    

    

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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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    Uyuni

     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

    

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