Config Alternatives

Config is described as 'SaaS tool for Configuration File Management created for Programmers, Sysadmins, and IT Managers. It the easiest way to manage your config files across all your servers and environments' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Config for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Config alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Config are Salt, Rudder, Puppet and Foreman.

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

    56 Ansible alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
     
    • Ansible is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Config.

    • Ansible is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Config.

    • Ansible is Freemium and Open SourceConfig is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Salt icon
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    Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Rudder icon
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    Rudder is a solution for automating your IT infrastructure to ensure security, reliability and compliance of your systems, whatever the OS. Gain instant visibility of IT compliance and benefit from continuous remediation to ensure an environment well configured and secured.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • Self-Hosted
    • CentOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Slackware
     
    • Rudder is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Config.

    • Rudder is the most popular commercial alternative to Config.

    • Rudder is Paid and Open SourceConfig is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Rudder is LightweightConfig is not according to our users
  4. Puppet icon
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    Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.

    46 Puppet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
    • Puppet is the most popular Web-based alternative to Config.

    • Puppet is Freemium and Open SourceConfig is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Foreman icon
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    Foreman is an open source project that helps system administrators manage servers throughout their lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and monitoring. Using Puppet or Chef and Foreman's smart proxy architecture, you can easily automate repetitive...

    25 Foreman alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Chef icon
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    Chef is an 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.

    41 Chef alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. DCImanager icon
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    DCImanager is a platform for managing servers, racks, and data center equipment (such as routers, switches, sensors, PDU).

    33 DCImanager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. CTO.ai icon
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    The CTO.ai platform allows you and your software development team to implement DevOps automations in minutes rather than days by runnings "Ops" in Slack and the CLI. Leverage a curated inventory of DevOps workflows to adopt int your development cycles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. (R)?ex icon
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    (R)?ex - manage all your boxes from a central point - Datacenter Automation and Configuration Management

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. cdist icon
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    cdist is an alternative to other configuration management systems like cfengine, bcfg2, chef and puppet. But cdist ticks differently.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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