Chef Alternatives
Chef is described as 'open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure' and is an app in the Network & Admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Chef for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Online / Web-based and Self-Hosted solutions. The best alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chef are Salt (Free, Open Source), Puppet (Freemium, Open Source), Foreman (Free, Open Source) and RunDeck (Free, Open Source).
- Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other... View 46 alternatives to Ansible
- Freemium • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Python
- Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way. View 37 alternatives to Salt
- Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure. View 48 alternatives to Puppet
- Foreman is an open source project that helps system administrators manage servers throughout their lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and monitoring. View 23 alternatives to Foreman
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- 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. View 24 alternatives to RunDeck
- Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. View 25 alternatives to FabricNo screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- BSD
- 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... View 8 alternatives to munki
- 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. View 13 alternatives to Rudder
- Freemium • Open Source
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Solaris
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Raspbian
- PowerShell Desired State Configuration is a management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and development infrastructure with configuration as code. View 5 alternatives to PowerShell DSC
- CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission critical IT infrastructure. View 25 alternatives to CfengineNo screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
Cfengine vs Chef
Less dependency, much better security track record. Runs on operating systems that Chef does not and can not support.