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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 a time.

Features:

• Configuration
• Configuration Management
• No-code
• Python
• SSH

Puppet

Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.

Features:

• Ruby
• Task Automation
• Task Management

Salt

Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way. Salt allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality. Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a remote system.

Features:

• Configuration Management
• Task Management

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 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.

Features:

• Configuration Management
• Ruby
• Virtualization

Fabric

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

Features:

• Python
• Configuration
• Configuration Management
• Server Management
• SSH

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.

Features:

• Job scheduling
• Task Scheduling
• Workflow Automation
• Configuration
• Configuration Management
• Server Management

Cfengine

Ensure compliance Define the desired state and configuration of your IT infrastructure, and CFEngine will automatically ensure that it complies. Automate Automatically roll out updates and changes to every node in your infrastructure, whether you have 50 or 50,000 nodes. Everywhere CFEngine uses autonomous agents which run on every node of your infrastructure, implementing your desired state and reporting back continuously.

Cobbler

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 some cases, changing existing ones. It can help with installation, DNS, DHCP, package updates, power management, configuration management orchestration, and much more.

Features:

• Auto-installer
• PXE
• Server Monitoring

cdist

cdist is an alternative to other configuration management systems like cfengine, bcfg2, chef and puppet. But cdist ticks differently.

Bcfg2

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. It is the fifth generation of configuration management tools developed in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory.

Features:

• Configuration Management
• Server Management