Ansible Alternatives

Ansible is described as 'Radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs' and is a popular server management tool in the system & hardware category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Ansible for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Ansible alternative is Puppet, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ansible are Salt, Chef, pyinfra and Nix Package Manager.

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    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. It deploys applications on top of functioning operating systems using whatever config...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. Uyuni icon
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    Uyuni is a solution for organizations that require absolute control over maintenance and package deployment on their servers. It lets you manage large sets of Linux systems and keep them upto date, with automated software management, asset management, and system provisioning.

    6 Uyuni alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. RunDeck icon
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    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.

    31 RunDeck alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. GruCloud icon
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    GruCloud is a low/no-code infrastructure as a code tool. It can generate code from live infrastructure, and deploy resources to the cloud from code. Benefit from infrastructure as code without the hassle of manually authoring the infrastructure description.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Yoke icon
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    The Yoke Project is a set of tools for working with package management differently than the status quo. Where once only YAML and templates of YAML ruled the representation of Kubernetes resources and the packages thereof, we can now work with code and benefit from native control...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  6. CTO.ai icon
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    The CTO.ai platform allows you and your software development team to implement DevOps automations in minutes rather than days by runnings "Ops" in Slack and the CLI. Leverage a curated inventory of DevOps workflows to adopt int your development cycles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    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 supported.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. PowerShell Desired State Configuration is a management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and development infrastructure with configuration as code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. chezmoi icon
     9 likes

    Dotfiles manager through a version control system.

    13 chezmoi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Mac
     
  11. Unimus icon
     5 likes

    Network automation, disaster recovery, change management and configuration auditing. Unimus is NCM software, extremely easy to deploy and use, providing a wide feature-set that will help you run your network.

    10 Unimus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. DCImanager icon
     65 likes

    DCImanager is a platform for managing servers, racks, and data center equipment (such as routers, switches, sensors, PDU).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Comments about DCImanager as an Alternative to Ansible
    David Parvenon
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    With the release of the new version of DCImanager usability has increased many times, including for end-users. Theu now perform simple operations independently.

    Vlad Smarrr
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    It eatures great reinstallation and rescue functionality and custom OS templates can be created without much hassle.

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    • DCImanager is Paid and ProprietaryAnsible is Freemium and Open Source
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