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.
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.
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.
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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.
Fetch Apply is a simple system configuration and management framework built by Priveasy and designed for transparency. Fetch Apply has many, wonderful advantages and features... here are just a few:
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