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

Rudder is described as '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' and is a server management tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Rudder for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Rudder alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rudder are Salt, pyinfra, Puppet and Chef.
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

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


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

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.
Manage IT infrastructure with features like automated patching, asset intelligence, security policy enforcement, remote troubleshooting, device tracking, and more, all from a single console for various platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS.




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.




Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is a systems management software product by Microsoft for managing large groups of computers running Windows, macOS, Linux, as well as Windows Phone, Symbian, iOS and Android.

CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission critical IT infrastructure.
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.
Config is a SaaS tool for Configuration File Management created for Programmers, Sysadmins, and IT Managers. It is the easiest way to manage your config files across all your servers and environments.

Workspace management with Matrix42 Physical (former Empirum) simplifies and reduces the cost and administration effort in the field of clientmanagement.
