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, Mac, Windows, 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.
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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