The Best 37 Puppet 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

  • Distelli

    Build and deploy your code from GitHub and BitBucket (or no repository at all) to any server in the world regardless of provider.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • munki

    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...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • cdist

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • 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

  • Kaseya Solution

    Automated IT Management Software and Network Management Software Solutions for IT Departments and Managed Service Providers.

    Commercial Windows Linux Web

  • Otter

    Otter is modern infrastructure automation that utilizes Infrastructure as Code to help teams with Configuration and Orchestration.

    Freemium Windows

  • System Center Configuration Manager

    System Center Configuration Manager is a systems management software product by Microsoft for managing large groups of Windows-based computer systems. .

    Commercial Windows

  • 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