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. Commando.io icon
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    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

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    • Linux
     
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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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. munki icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Bcfg2 icon
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    Bcfg2 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. Mina icon
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    Mina is a really fast deployer and server automation tool written in Ruby.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. mgmt icon
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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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    glu is an open source deployment and monitoring automation platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Otter icon
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    Otter is modern infrastructure automation that utilizes Infrastructure as Code to help teams with Configuration and Orchestration.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Sprinkle is a software provisioning tool you can use to build remote servers with. eg. to install a Rails, or Sinatra stack on a brand new slice directly after its been created.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    PontusVision is a core services automation tool that covers design, configuration management, deployment, and management of apps. It focuses on low latency environments, but can be used to manage any IT system. Its unique selling points are the following:

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • OpenSolaris
     
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    MagniComp RDist is an open source program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files and can update programs that are executing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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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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