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, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Salt alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Salt are Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, Puppet and Chef.

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  1. Uyuni icon
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    Uyuni is a solution for organizations that require absolute control over maintenance and package deployment on their servers. It lets you manage large sets of Linux systems and keep them upto date, with automated software management, asset management, and system provisioning.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Otter icon
     3 likes

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

    9 Otter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Commando.io icon
     7 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Pulumi icon
     12 likes

    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.

    16 Pulumi alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. CTO.ai icon
     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Config icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9.  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

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10.  2 likes

    glu is an open source deployment and monitoring automation platform.

    19 glu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Propellor is a configuration management system using Haskell and Git. Each system has a list of properties, which Propellor ensures are satisfied. Linux and FreeBSD are supported.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  12. Cobbler icon
     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...

    21 Cobbler alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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