SlickStack is a free LEMP stack automation script written in Bash designed to enhance and simplify WordPress provisioning, performance, and security.
Chef Alternatives
Chef is described as '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' and is a server management tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Chef for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Chef alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chef are Salt, Puppet, Rudder and pyinfra.
Alternatives list
31 RunDeck alternativesRunDeck 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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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.
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CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission critical IT infrastructure.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
Cfengine vs Chef Comments
- Cfengine is Free and Open Source
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
Kaseya VSA offers you the most feature-rich, integrated, and efficiently priced RMM solution available.
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.
Otter is modern infrastructure automation that utilizes Infrastructure as Code to help teams with Configuration and Orchestration.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
Otter vs Chef Comments
Simple easy to use. Make DSC simple to deploy.
- Otter is Freemium and Proprietary
Crossbill Seeder is a self-hosted web-based provisioning platform for on-demand cloud scaling and application updates delivery. Can be used to automatically provision VMs in AWS, GCE and DigitalOcean clouds.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
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Less dependency, much better security track record. Runs on operating systems that Chef does not and can not support.