Open Source Fabric AlternativesServer Management Tools and other similar apps like Fabric

Alternatives list

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   Ansible

    96 likes

   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
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Server Management

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Python

   

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   Salt

    48 likes

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

   38 Salt alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Server Management

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

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   pyinfra

    13 likes

   pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.

   9 pyinfra alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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   Puppet

    53 likes

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

   45 Puppet alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Online

   

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   Foreman

    11 likes

   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...

   27 Foreman alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Online
   • Self-Hosted

   

   

   

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   Chef

    31 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Server Management

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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   (R)?ex

    18 likes

   (R)?ex - manage all your boxes from a central point - Datacenter Automation and Configuration Management

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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    DoIt

     2 likes

    doit comes from the idea of bringing the power of build-tools to execute any kind of task. People often compare doit to tools like make, grunt, rake, scons, snakemake. They appreciate doit strong features, flexibility, simplicity of authoring and ease of use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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    RunDeck

     15 likes

    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.

    31 RunDeck alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Server Management

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

    

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    cdist

     8 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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    Cobbler

     9 likes

    Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. It glues together and automates many associated Linux tasks so you do not have to hop between lots of various commands and applications when rolling out new systems, and, in...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

    

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    Crowbar

     5 likes

    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

    • Server Management

    Platforms

    • Linux

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