Puppet Alternatives

Puppet is described as 'Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure' and is a popular app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Puppet for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Puppet alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Puppet are Salt, Foreman, Chef and Rudder.

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  1. Ansible icon
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    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

    54 Ansible alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
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  2. Salt icon
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    Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Foreman icon
     11 likes

    Foreman is an open source project that helps system administrators manage servers throughout their lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and monitoring. Using Puppet or Chef and Foreman's smart proxy architecture, you can easily automate repetitive...

    26 Foreman alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Chef icon
     31 likes

    Chef is an 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.

    39 Chef alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. Rudder icon
     27 likes

    Rudder is a solution for automating your IT infrastructure to ensure security, reliability and compliance of your systems, whatever the OS. Gain instant visibility of IT compliance and benefit from continuous remediation to ensure an environment well configured and secured.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • Self-Hosted
    • CentOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Slackware
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  6. pyinfra icon
     13 likes

    pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
    • Mac
    • Windows
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  7. Cfengine icon
     8 likes

    CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission critical IT infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  8. Juju icon
     1 like

    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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  9. Bcfg2 icon
     4 likes

    Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. mgmt icon
     1 like

    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.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  11. CTO.ai icon
     1 like

    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.

    38 CTO.ai alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. Apstra icon
     1 like

    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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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