Configuration Management Archives

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Progress Chef

Chef is an open source systems integration framework and configuration management system. We recommend other open source solutions.

Configuration management software are the tools of choice for many system administrators and devops professionals. Here’s our verdict.

Rex (Remote execution) is billed as the friendly automation framework written in Perl.

OCS Inventory NG is a cross-platform, open-source application designed to keep track of the computers’ configuration and software.

Ansible automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. Configure systems, deploy software, and more.

Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management built on a dynamic communication bus. Salt is free and open source software.

CFengine is a free and open source suite of programs for integrated autonomic management of either individual or networked computers.

Juju (formerly known as Ubuntu Ensemble) is an open source single service orchestration tool that works on public clouds, private clouds.

Quattor is a distribution of open source tools aimed at complete system management. Manage non-grid servers, desktops, virtual machines…

Rudder is an audit and configuration management utility to help automate system configuration across large IT infrastructures.

cdist is a usable configuration management system. It adheres to the KISS principle and is used in small up to enterprise grade environments.

Bcfg2 is a configuration management system. It helps system administrators deploy complex changes across large numbers of systems.

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and more.