Chef Alternatives

Chef is described as 'Open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers' and is a server management tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Chef for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Chef alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chef are Salt, Puppet, Rudder and pyinfra.

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  1. mgmt icon
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    Mgmt is confirmation management software that monitors and reacts dynamically to changes, executes tasks in parallel, and operates on an interconnected mesh model instead of a client-server model.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  2. Crossbill Seeder is a self-hosted web-based provisioning platform for on-demand cloud scaling and application updates delivery. Can be used to automatically provision VMs in AWS, GCE and DigitalOcean clouds.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. Apstra icon
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    The Apstra Operating System (AOS) is a vendor-agnostic, intent-based networking system for the data center network featuring closed-loop telemetry.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  4.  2 likes

    glu is an open source deployment and monitoring automation platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. Config icon
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    Config is a SaaS tool for Configuration File Management created for Programmers, Sysadmins, and IT Managers. It is the easiest way to manage your config files across all your servers and environments.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Deploy4Me icon
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    Deploy4Me is a software deployment service for everyone that helps prepare a cloud as quickly as possible with no code. You just get fully configured, integrated and secure cloud environment for your business or project.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
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  8. Juju icon
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    Juju is an enterprise Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) that provides model-driven application management and next-generation infrastructure-as-code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
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    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 created.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. PontusVision is a core services automation tool that covers design, configuration management, deployment, and management of apps. It focuses on low latency environments, but can be used to manage any IT system. Its unique selling points are the following:

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • OpenSolaris
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  11. Tstconfig is a system administration tool that tests (a large number of) configuration files automatically. Mainly intended for security, it can be used to test any configuration file on a Linux system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    MagniComp RDist is an open source program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files and can update programs that are executing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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