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 a server management tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Salt for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Salt alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Salt are Terraform, Puppet, Ansible Automation Platform and Chef.

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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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Salt alternatives page was last updated Nov 28, 2024
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  1. PowerShell DSC icon

    PowerShell DSC

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    PowerShell Desired State Configuration is a management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and development infrastructure with configuration as code.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    PowerShell DSC Features

    1.  Configuration Management
    2.  Configuration

    PowerShell DSC VS Salt

     
  2. Distelli icon

    Distelli

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    Build and deploy your code from GitHub and BitBucket (or no repository at all) to any server in the world regardless of provider.

    License model

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    Distelli Features

    1.  IT Automation
    2.  Build automation
    3.  Configuration Management

    Distelli VS Salt

     
  4. Otter icon

    Otter

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    Otter is modern infrastructure automation that utilizes Infrastructure as Code to help teams with Configuration and Orchestration.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Otter Features

    1.  Configuration Management

    Otter VS Salt

     
  5. Pulumi icon

    Pulumi

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    Pulumi is a cloud development platform. Replace YAML and DSLs with pure code. Code, deploy, manage cloud apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Pulumi Features

    1.  Kubernetes
    2.  Multi-cloud management
    3.  Serverless
    4. Docker icon  Support for Docker

    Pulumi VS Salt

     
  6. Fleet Commander icon

    Fleet Commander

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    Fleet Commander is an application that allows you to manage the desktop configuration of a large network of users and workstations/laptops. It is primarily targeted to Linux systems based on the GNOME desktop.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Discontinued

    The last version is from Mars 2022.

    Fleet Commander Features

    1.  Configuration Management

    Fleet Commander VS Salt

     
  7. (R)?ex icon

    (R)?ex

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    (R)?ex Features

    1.  Configuration Management
    2.  Software Deployment
    3.  Configuration
    4.  SSH

    (R)?ex VS Salt

     
  9. Commando.io icon

    Commando.io

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    A simpler way to manage servers online. Commando.io empowers users to be more efficient, improve their workflow, and eliminate anxiety over server provisioning, maintenance, and deployment. DropBox simplified online storage, GitHub simplified revision control, Commando.

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Commando.io Features

    1.  Configuration Management

    Commando.io VS Salt

     
  10. CTO.ai icon

    CTO.ai

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • CA flagCanada

    Platforms

    • Online
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    CTO.ai Features

    1.  AWS Integration
    2.  Kubernetes

    CTO.ai VS Salt

     
  11. Config icon

    Config

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    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.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    The configuration Hirarchy

    Config VS Salt

     

  12. Crowbar

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    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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Crowbar Features

    1.  Configuration
    2.  Configuration Management

    Crowbar VS Salt

     
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    Cobbler

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    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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Cobbler Features

    1.  Auto-installer
    2.  PXE
    3.  Server Monitoring

    Cobbler VS Salt

     

  14. glu

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    glu is an open source deployment and monitoring automation platform.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux

    glu Features

    1.  Configuration
    2.  Configuration Management

    glu VS Salt

     
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