The Best 21 FAI 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Foreman

    Foreman is an open source project that helps system administrators manage servers throughout their lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and monitoring.

    Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • 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

  • 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

  • PSSH

    pssh, parallel ssh tools, provides parallel versions of openssh and related tools.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • pconsole

    pconsole is a administrative tool for working with clusters of machines. pconsole allows you to connect to each node of your cluster simultaneously, and you can type...

    Free Mac OS X 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

  • DX-Union Management Suite

    Managing workplace systems, users and their resources leads to high costs for organizations. Many IT infrastructures have grown gradually over time to meet users’...

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • m23

    m23 is a software distribution and management system for the Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu Linux, Xubuntu, Linux Mint, elementary OS, Fedora, CentOS and openSUSE distributions.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Microsoft Intune

    Microsoft Intune is a cloud service that provides mobile device management, mobile application management, and PC management capabilities.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Windows Mobile