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

Cobbler

Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments.

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

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

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

FAI

FAI, Fully Automatic Installation, is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual...

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

Apache Airflow

Airflow is a platform to programmaticaly author, schedule and monitor data pipelines. Use Airflow to author workflows as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of tasks. The...

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

System Frontier

Role based access control for remote Windows server, workstation and network device management. A flexible and granular permission model allows organizations to grant...

Freemium Windows Self-Hosted