Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Packer

The top open-source alternatives to Packer are Terraform, Rancher, and HHVM. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Terraform Landing Page
1

Terraform

Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 31 social mentions
Rancher Landing Page
2

Rancher

Open Source Platform for Running a Private Container Service
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 24 social mentions
HHVM Landing Page
3

HHVM

HHVM is an open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 5 social mentions
Replay.io Landing Page
4

Replay.io

The best place to backorder/drop purchase expiring ccTLD domain names
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 41 social mentions
Skylight.io Landing Page
5

Skylight.io

Skylight is a smart profiler data detective code whisperer bug catcher flag raiser for rails apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 3 social mentions
Ansible Landing Page
6

Ansible

Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #IT Automation #Build And Deployment Automation 9 social mentions
Foreman Landing Page
7

Foreman

Foreman is an open source project that helps system administrators manage servers throughout their...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Monitoring Tools #IT Automation 18 social mentions
Docker Landing Page
8

Docker

Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Container Tools 62 social mentions
AWS CloudFormation Landing Page
9

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment 113 social mentions
Kubernetes Landing Page
10

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 282 social mentions
Pulumi Landing Page
11

Pulumi

Cloud Infrastructure for any cloud using languages you already know and love.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#Infrastructure Build Tools #Product Deployment #Cloud Computing 12 social mentions
Cobbler Landing Page
12

Cobbler

Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #IT Automation #Product Deployment 10 social mentions