Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Salt

The top open-source alternatives to Salt are Ansible, Python Fabric, and Terraform. 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.

Ansible Landing Page
1

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
Python Fabric Landing Page
2

Python Fabric

Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #App Development #DevOps Tools 1 social mentions
Terraform Landing Page
3

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
Foreman Landing Page
4

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
Cobbler Landing Page
5

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
Rudder Landing Page
6

Rudder

Rudder is an easy to use, web-driven, role-based solution for Continuous Automation and Compliance.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #IT Automation #Dev Ops
Cfengine Landing Page
7

Cfengine

CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Product Deployment #IT Automation 5 social mentions
pyinfra Landing Page
8

pyinfra

pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#DevOps Tools #Build Tools #IT Automation 8 social mentions
Jenkins Landing Page
9

Jenkins

Jenkins is an open-source continuous integration server with 300+ plugins to support all kinds of software development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 5 social mentions
FAI Landing Page
10

FAI

FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #SSH #Server Configuration And Automation 11 social mentions
AWS CloudFormation Landing Page
11

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 113 social mentions
Octopus Deploy Landing Page
12

Octopus Deploy

Octopus is a friendly deployment automation tool for .NET developers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 17 social mentions