Ansible Alternatives

Chef is one of the most widely-used Configuration Management tools on the market today. With Chef you can automate process and recurring tasks across multiple servers and deceives. Chef is provided as a free, open source tool along side an hosted, enterprise offering for corporation looking for enterprise features and dedicated support. Developers and DevOps across the globe trust Chef to automate task, improve security and simplify workflows.

Rundeck is an open source automation service with a web console, command line tools and a WebAPI. With Rundeck you easily run automation tasks across a set of nodes. Rundeck is avalible as two versions, Rundeck Community and Rundeck Enterprise, where the first mentiond is built for small teams. It addresses the technical complexity of Runbook Automation for solving non-production self-service. The later is aimed at teams and organizations at scale. It addresses the organizational complexity of teams and multiple clusters with self-service, incident response, and compliance and auditing features.

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool created by HashiCorp. It allows infrastructure to be expressed as code in a simple, human readable language called HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language). The Terraform CLI automatically reads configuration files and provides an execution plan of changes, which can be reviewed for safety and then applied and provisioned.