The Best 25 (R)?ex 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Release Management for Visual Studio

    Release Management for Visual Studio is a continuous delivery solution that automates the release process through various environments all the way to production.

    Commercial Windows Microsoft Visual Studio

  • glu

    glu is an open source deployment and monitoring automation platform.

    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