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 Online / Web-based. The best alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cfengine are Salt, Puppet, Chef and Cobbler.

Cfengine alternatives are mainly Server Management Tools but may also be Workflow Automation Tools or Task Management Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Cfengine.

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Cfengine

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Ansible
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Freemium • Open Source
Windows
Linux
BSD
Python
52 alternatives to Ansible
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.
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1. No Coding RequiredAnsible can be used without an coding or programming skills.
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Configuration
Salt
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
39 alternatives to Salt
Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.
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Configuration Management
Puppet
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Freemium • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
48 alternatives to Puppet
Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.
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Chef
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Free • Open Source
Server Management Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
43 alternatives to Chef
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.
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Configuration Management
Ruby
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Cobbler
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Free • Open Source
Linux
22 alternatives to Cobbler
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...
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Auto-installer
PXE
Server Monitoring
Rudder
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Freemium • Open Source
Server Management Tool
Linux
Self-Hosted
Solaris
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Raspbian
13 alternatives to Rudder
Rudder is an easy to use, web-driven, role-based solution for Continuous Automation and Compliance. Well established in companies from small to biggest-in-their-field. The biggest known deployment (2016) is about 7000 nodes.
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Continuous Auditing
Configuration Management
Configuration
Continuous Configuration
IT Automation
RunDeck
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Free • Open Source
Server Management Tool
Workflow Automation Tool
Linux
27 alternatives to RunDeck
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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Task Scheduling
Job scheduling
Configuration
Configuration Management
munki
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Free • Open Source
Mac
10 alternatives to munki
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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Batch Uninstaller
Software Management
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Fabric
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Free • Open Source
Server Management Tool
Linux
BSD
26 alternatives to Fabric
Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.
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Configuration
Configuration Management
SSH
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cdist
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
BSD
19 alternatives to cdist
cdist is an alternative to other configuration management systems like cfengine, bcfg2, chef and puppet. But cdist ticks differently.
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