The Best 20 cdist Alternatives

  • Ansible

    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Python

  • Puppet

    Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Salt

    Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way. Salt allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Chef

    Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Fabric

    Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • (R)?ex

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • RunDeck

    RunDeck is an open source automation service with a web console, command line tools and a WebAPI. It lets you easily run automation tasks across a set of nodes.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Cfengine

    CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission critical IT infrastructure.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Commando.io

    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.

    Commercial Linux

  • Crowbar

    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.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Mina

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

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Bcfg2

    Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • NexentaStor

    Network Storage Appliance featuring the zfs filesystem, which provides block-level checksumming & automated tier management most notably. It provides enterprise...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • EIP SAM

    SAM-Solution is a management tool for IT-infrastructures, intended for companies. It allows to centralize system and software migrations, as well as backup and...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • glu

    glu is an open source deployment and monitoring automation platform.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Pallet

    Pallet is platform for agile and programmatic automation of infrastructure in the cloud, on server racks or directly on virtual machines. Pallet provides cloud provider...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Sprinkle

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Propellor

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD