Cfengine Alternatives

Cfengine is described as 'CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission critical IT infrastructure' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Cfengine for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Cfengine alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cfengine are Salt, Rudder, Puppet and Chef.

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  1. Ansible icon
     95 likes

    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

    56 Ansible alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
     
    • Ansible is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Cfengine.

    • Ansible is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Cfengine.

    • Ansible is Freemium and Open SourceCfengine is Free and Open Source
  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.

    39 Salt alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. 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.

    13 Rudder alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • Self-Hosted
    • CentOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Slackware
     
    • Rudder is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Cfengine.

    • Rudder is the most popular commercial alternative to Cfengine.

    • Rudder is Paid and Open SourceCfengine is Free and Open Source
    • Rudder is LightweightCfengine is not according to our users
  4. 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.

    46 Puppet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • Puppet is the most popular Web-based alternative to Cfengine.

    • Puppet is Freemium and Open SourceCfengine is Free and Open Source
  5. 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.

    41 Chef alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. Landscape icon
     2 likes

    Landscape automates security patching, auditing, access management and compliance tasks across your Ubuntu estate. Use it in well-connected or airgapped environments: at sea, in space and everywhere in between. Landscape is available with an Ubuntu Pro subscription.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
    • Ubuntu
     
    • Landscape is the most popular SaaS alternative to Cfengine.

    • Landscape is Free Personal and ProprietaryCfengine is Free and Open Source
  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
     
  8. (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
     
  9. 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.

    25 Fabric alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. 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.

    31 RunDeck alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. cdist icon
     8 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
     
  12. Cobbler icon
     9 likes

    Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. It glues together and automates many associated Linux tasks so you do not have to hop between lots of various commands and applications when rolling out new systems, and, in...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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