Salt Alternatives

Salt is described as 'powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Salt for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Online / Web-based and BSD. The best alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Salt are Puppet, pyinfra, Terraform and Chef.

Salt alternatives are mainly Server Management Tools but may also be Network Monitors or Workflow Automation Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Salt.

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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.

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Ansible
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Freemium • Open Source
Windows
Linux
BSD
Python
53 alternatives to Ansible
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.
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1. No Coding RequiredAnsible can be used without an coding or programming skills.
SSH
Configuration Management
Configuration
Puppet
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Freemium • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
48 alternatives to Puppet
Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.
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pyinfra
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Free • Open Source
Virtualization Tool
Linux
BSD
9 alternatives to pyinfra
pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.
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pyinfra Features
1. Command line interfacepyinfra either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Configuration Management
Python-based
Optimal performance
SSH
Terraform
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
15 alternatives to Terraform
Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
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Terraform Features
Multi-cloud management
Chef
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Free • Open Source
Server Management Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
43 alternatives to Chef
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.
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Configuration Management
Ruby
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Cobbler
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Free • Open Source
Linux
22 alternatives to Cobbler
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...
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Auto-installer
PXE
Server Monitoring
cdist
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
BSD
19 alternatives to cdist
cdist is an alternative to other configuration management systems like cfengine, bcfg2, chef and puppet. But cdist ticks differently.
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SSH
Rudder
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Freemium • Open Source
Server Management Tool
Linux
Self-Hosted
Solaris
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Raspbian
13 alternatives to Rudder
Rudder is an easy to use, web-driven, role-based solution for Continuous Automation and Compliance. Well established in companies from small to biggest-in-their-field. The biggest known deployment (2016) is about 7000 nodes.
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Continuous Auditing
Configuration Management
Configuration
Continuous Configuration
IT Automation
PowerShell DSC
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
5 alternatives to PowerShell DSC
PowerShell Desired State Configuration is a management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and development infrastructure with configuration as code.
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PowerShell DSC Features
Configuration Management
Configuration
munki
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Free • Open Source
Mac
10 alternatives to munki
munki is a set of tools that, used together with a webserver-based repository of packages and package metadata, can be used by OS X administrators to manage software installs (and in many cases removals) on OS X client machines.
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Batch Uninstaller
Software Management
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