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 Ansible Automation Platform, Puppet, Terraform and Chef.

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  1. Cobbler icon
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. cdist icon
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    cdist is an alternative to other configuration management systems like cfengine, bcfg2, chef and puppet. But cdist ticks differently.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Fabric icon
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    Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. Apstra icon
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    The Apstra Operating System (AOS) is a vendor-agnostic, intent-based networking system for the data center network featuring closed-loop telemetry.

    8 Apstra alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Bcfg2 icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6.  Like
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    Sprinkle is a software provisioning tool you can use to build remote servers with. eg. to install a Rails, or Sinatra stack on a brand new slice directly after its been created.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Release Management for Visual Studio is a continuous delivery solution that automates the release process through various environments all the way to production.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
     
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    Crossbill Seeder is a self-hosted web-based provisioning platform for on-demand cloud scaling and application updates delivery. Can be used to automatically provision VMs in AWS, GCE and DigitalOcean clouds.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. DoIt icon
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    doit comes from the idea of bringing the power of build-tools to execute any kind of task. People often compare doit to tools like make, grunt, rake, scons, snakemake. They appreciate doit strong features, flexibility, simplicity of authoring and ease of use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Mina icon
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    Mina is a really fast deployer and server automation tool written in Ruby.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. SlickStack icon
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    SlickStack is a free LEMP stack automation script written in Bash designed to enhance and simplify WordPress provisioning, performance, and security.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Yoke icon
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    The Yoke Project is a set of tools for working with package management differently than the status quo. Where once only YAML and templates of YAML ruled the representation of Kubernetes resources and the packages thereof, we can now work with code and benefit from native control...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
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