Alternatives to Chef for all platforms with any license

  • Ansible

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

    Commercial Open Source Windows Linux BSD Python

    No-code SSH Add a feature

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  • Salt

    Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way. Salt allows commands to be executed...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

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  • Puppet

    Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web

    Task Automation Add a feature

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  • Fabric

    Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    SSH Add a feature

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  • Otter

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

    • Simple easy to use. Make DSC simple to deploy. Guest • Jun 2018 Disagree   Agree

    Freemium Windows

    No features added Add a feature

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  • 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.

    Free Open Source Linux

    Job scheduling Add a feature

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  • Cfengine

    CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission critical IT infrastructure.

    • Less dependency, much better security track record. Runs on operating systems that Chef does not and can not support. Guest • Oct 2016 Disagree   Agree

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web

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  • 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...

    Free Open Source Mac

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  • cdist

    cdist is an alternative to other configuration management systems like cfengine, bcfg2, chef and puppet. But cdist ticks differently.

    Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD

    SSH Add a feature

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  • Foreman

    Foreman is an open source project that helps system administrators manage servers throughout their lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and...

    Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted

    Hardware Monitoring Add a feature

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  • Bcfg2

    Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to...

    Free Open Source Mac Linux

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  • mgmt

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

    Free Open Source Mac Linux

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  • FAI

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux

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  • Mina

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

    Free Open Source Linux

    SSH Add a feature

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