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 alternatives page was last updated Mar 4, 2025
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  1. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    cdist Features

    1.  SSH

    cdist VS Salt

     
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    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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Propellor Features

    1.  Configuration Management

    Propellor VS Salt

     
  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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Fabric Features

    1.  Configuration
    2.  Configuration Management
    3.  SSH

    Fabric VS Salt

     
  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.

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    Apstra VS Salt

     
  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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Bcfg2 Features

    1.  Configuration Management

    Bcfg2 VS Salt

     
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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Sprinkle VS Salt

     
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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.

    License model

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Visual Studio

    Release Management for Visual Studio Features

    1.  Release Management

    Release Management for Visual Studio VS Salt

     
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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.

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    Crossbill Seeder Features

    1.  Change Management
    2.  Automated deployment
    3.  Automated provisioning
    4.  Software Deployment
    5.  Continuous Deployment
    6.  Auto Scaling
    7.  AWS Deploy
    8.  Continuous Integration
    9.  Google Cloud

    Crossbill Seeder VS Salt

     
  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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    DoIt VS Salt

     
  10. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted

    SlickStack Features

    1.  WP-CLI
    2.  PHP-FPM
    3. Git icon  Git integration
    4.  OpenSSL
    5.  Nginx

    SlickStack VS Salt

     
  11. Mina icon
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    Mina is a really fast deployer and server automation tool written in Ruby.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Mina Features

    1.  SSH
    2.  Configuration
    3.  Configuration Management

    Mina VS Salt

     
  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...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows

    Yoke Features

    1.  Multi-cloud management
    2.  Kubernetes

    Yoke VS Salt

     
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