Bcfg2 Alternatives

Bcfg2 is described as 'Helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks' and is a server management tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Bcfg2 for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Bcfg2 alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Bcfg2 are Salt, Rudder, Puppet and Chef.

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    Crowbar

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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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    munki

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    munki is a set of tools that, used together with a webserver-based repository of packages and package metadata, can be used by OS X administrators to manage software installs (and in many cases removals) on OS X client machines.

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Cfengine

     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
     
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    Mina

     3 likes

    Mina is a really fast deployer and server automation tool written in Ruby.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    FAI

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    FAI, Fully Automatic Installation, is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large-scale infrastructures like clusters and cloud...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    mgmt

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    Mgmt is confirmation management software that monitors and reacts dynamically to changes, executes tasks in parallel, and operates on an interconnected mesh model instead of a client-server model.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    glu

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    glu is an open source deployment and monitoring automation platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Propellor

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    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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