Cobbler Alternatives

Apps similar to Cobbler include Ansible, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Salt, Puppet, Ansible Automation Platform and Landscape. You can choose from more than 10 Server Management Tools like Cobbler for Linux, Mac, Windows and the web.

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. Cfengine icon
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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
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  3. Bcfg2 icon
     4 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  4. 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
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    glu is an open source deployment and monitoring automation platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. 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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  8. A Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in 2014, 2015, 2016, Nlyte is the leading provider of Data Center Infrastructure Management and has the largest and most sophisticated DCIM implementations in the world with a modern, web-services architecture.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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  9. Stacki icon
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    Stacki is a very fast and easy-to-use bare metal provisioning tool. There are zero prerequisites for taking systems from bare metal to a ping and a prompt. Stacki is open source and is intended to invite collaboration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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