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.