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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    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...

    19 Crowbar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. Landscape icon
     2 likes

    Landscape automates security patching, auditing, access management and compliance tasks across your Ubuntu estate. Use it in well-connected or airgapped environments: at sea, in space and everywhere in between. Landscape is available with an Ubuntu Pro subscription.

    35 Landscape alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
    • Ubuntu
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  3. cdist icon
     7 likes

    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
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  4. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is a systems management software product by Microsoft for managing large groups of computers running Windows, macOS, Linux, as well as Windows Phone, Symbian, iOS and Android.

    24 Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Commando.io icon
     7 likes

    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. DropBox simplified online storage, GitHub simplified revision control, Commando.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. (R)?ex icon
     18 likes

    (R)?ex - manage all your boxes from a central point - Datacenter Automation and Configuration Management

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7.  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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  8. Cobbler icon
     9 likes

    Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. It glues together and automates many associated Linux tasks so you do not have to hop between lots of various commands and applications when rolling out new systems, and, in...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. DCImanager icon
     65 likes

    DCImanager automates dedicated server provisioning, multivendor infrastructure, and colocation. Features: OS installation, IP assignment, traffic/energy monitoring, SAN/NAS management, bulk BIOS/BMC updates, auto-discovery, DC map, self-service portal, billing integration.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. SlickStack icon
     3 likes

    SlickStack is a free LEMP stack automation script written in Bash designed to enhance and simplify WordPress provisioning, performance, and security.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. DoIt icon
     2 likes

    doit comes from the idea of bringing the power of build-tools to execute any kind of task. People often compare doit to tools like make, grunt, rake, scons, snakemake. They appreciate doit strong features, flexibility, simplicity of authoring and ease of use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. 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
    Good alternative?
     
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