CFEngine is agent-based configuration management for large server fleets: a GPL open source engine plus an Enterprise edition with a web console, sold by quote.
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Best Configuration Management Tools
Configuration management tool reviews covering idempotency in practice, agent overhead, drift detection, module ecosystem and scaling.
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Chef is a configuration management and compliance automation platform from Progress for server, desktop and network fleets, built on an open-source engine.
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Foreman is open-source server lifecycle management software, self-hosted by sysadmins who provision physical and virtual hosts and run Puppet or Ansible.
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Puppet is Perforce's configuration management tool for infrastructure teams. It enforces declared state on servers and network devices; the core is open source.
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is agentless configuration management and IT automation software built on open source Ansible and sold by quote.
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Rudder is an open-source configuration management and security automation platform for Linux and Windows fleets, made by Paris-based Normation.
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Rundeck is open source job scheduling and runbook automation software from PagerDuty, for operations and platform teams running scripts across servers.
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Salt Project is an open source configuration management and remote execution tool for self-hosted server fleets, maintained by Broadcom under Apache 2.0.
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