Top 15 Ansible Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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

Being designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

It uses no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, so it’s easy to deploy — and most importantly, it uses a very simple language (YAML, in the form of Ansible Playbooks) that allow you to describe your automation jobs in a way that approaches plain English.

1. Mina

Mina Mina is a really fast deployer and server automation tool written in Ruby.......

2. Fabric

Fabric Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.......

3. glu

glu glu is an open source deployment and monitoring automation platform.......

4. pconsole

pconsole pconsole is a administrative tool for working with clusters of machines. pconsole allows you to connect to each node of your cluster simultaneously, and you can type your administrative commands in a specialized window that 'multiplies' the input to each to the connections you have opened.......

5. Crowbar

Crowbar 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 management system you already know and love.......

6. RunDeck

RunDeck RunDeck is an open source automation service with a web console, command line tools and a WebAPI. It lets you easily run automation tasks across a set of nodes.......

7. PSSH

PSSH PSSH, Parallel SSH Tools, provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools. Included in the distribution: * Parallel ssh (pssh) * Parallel scp (pscp) * Parallel rsync (prsync) * Parallel nuke (pnuke) * Parallel slurp (pslurp) It executes commands on multiple hosts in parallel.The project includes psshlib which......

8. Rudder

Rudder Professional open source automation and compliance with a lightweight agent, simple web interface and realtime feedback on all your configurations......

9. PontusVision

PontusVision 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:1) thread management - allows users to simulate the latency of an......

10. Pallet

Pallet Pallet is platform for agile and programmatic automation of infrastructure in the cloud, on server racks or directly on virtual machines. Pallet provides cloud provider and operating system independence, and allows for an unprecedented level of customization.......

11. Chef

Chef 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. The result is a fully automated......

12. initool

initool initool lets you manipulate the contents of INI files from the command line.......

13. (R)?ex

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

14. IniFile

IniFile This tool handles Windows type INI files with section names in square brackets, and assignments of the form: item=string (case ignored for section and item names). It can change and remove items and remove properties in INI file from the Windows command line or a batch file.......

15. Cloudify

Cloudify Orchestrate Real Apps on the Cloud with CloudifyAchieve a smooth transition to the cloud and easy automation of even the most complex applications throughout their entire lifecycle with Cloudify. Orchestrate the creation of the whole cloud infrastructure required for your application, starting from compute resources all the way down to......