Top 15 Chef Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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 infrastructure: when a new server comes on line, the only thing you have to do is tell Chef what role it should play in your architecture.

1. Ansible

Ansible 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......

2. Blue Box

Blue Box Blue Box delivers Private Cloud as a Service (PCaaS) to a worldwide customer base on a technology platform which leverages decades of operational expertise in cloud and distributed systems. Blue Box Cloud® is a managed, hosted private cloud on dedicated hardware, powered by OpenStack and available and scalable on-demand. Blue......

3. Mina

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

4. Engine Yard Cloud

Engine Yard Cloud Engine Yard Cloud is the best Platform as a Service (PaaS) for a wide range of applications, from small-scale web applications that run within a single compute instance, to large-scale enterprise applications that require the reliability, elasticity and performance of high-availability clusters.With Engine Yard, you can focus on creating innovative......

5. 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......

6. Commando.io

Commando.io 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.io simplifies server management.......

7. ServerPilot.io

ServerPilot.io ServerPilot makes it easy to host WordPress and any other PHP sites on DigitalOcean, Linode, Rackspace, Vultr, and other cloud providers. By turning any server into an optimized PHP and WordPress hosting platform, ServerPilot makes it simple to run your sites in the best way possible: on cloud servers.......

8. Network Discovery

Network Discovery Discover and Scan machines on your network from your Android phone......

9. iKeepinCloud

iKeepinCloud Hosted in our very own european datacenter, “iKeepinCloud” is a multi-protocol solution (Http(s), ftp(s), WebDAV, SMB, Samba and Sftp). We offer it as a solution that doesn’t require any software installation on Windows, Mac or Linux. In fact, you can store, share and backup (please note this last feature is......

10. wxWidgets

wxWidgets wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, OS X, Linux and UNIX on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures as well as several mobile platforms including Windows Mobile, iPhone SDK and embedded GTK+. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages. Unlike......

11. Cloud Workbench

Cloud Workbench Cloud Workbench lets you manage all your Azure resources from multiple subscriptions in one place.It has an intuitive interface for Azure Blob and Table Storage, lets you connect to your VMs with our embedded RDP client and even supports the new Azure Resource Manager.......

12. VisualWX

VisualWX Visualwx aims to be the ultimate RAD tool, designed for c++, python, perl, ruby, lua and wxWidgets. Still there are many things to do, but we've achieved considerable progress.We would like to demonstrate it to all as soon as possible. The program already has a lot of features, among the......

13. Propellor

Propellor Propellor is configured via a git repository, which typically lives in ~/.propellor/ on your development machine. Propellor clones the repository to each host it manages, in a secure way.Properties are defined using Haskell. There is fairly complete API documentation, which includes many built-in properties for dealing with APT and Apache,......

14. Rudder

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

15. Skytap Cloud

Skytap Cloud Skytap provides cloud automation solutions for enterprises and software vendors to develop, test, migrate, evaluate, demo, and train on new and existing applications in the cloud. * Functional users are empowered to create cloud based virtual environments, run applications without code changes, and collaborate globally using a self-service UI. *......