Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Configuration management
Describe the state of servers in code and converge them to it.
Changes in this category (RSS)
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| Tool | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansible | 71k | GPL-3.0 | Open source | No | Python | v2.21.5 | 2026-10-06 |
| Salt | 16k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | No | Python | v3008.3 | 2026-10-03 |
| AWX | 16k | Other | Open source | No | Python | 24.6.1 | 2026-10-05 |
| Semaphore UI | 14k | MIT | Open source | No | Go | v2.19.12 | 2026-10-06 |
| Capistrano | 13k | MIT | Open source | No | Ruby | v3.20.1 | 2026-07-19 |
| Deployer | 11k | MIT | Open source | No | PHP | v8.0.5 | 2026-08-26 |
| Chef | 8.2k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | No | Ruby | v15.8.23 | 2026-10-06 |
| Puppet | 8k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | No | Ruby | 7.34.0 | 2026-08-06 |
| pyinfra | 6k | MIT | Open source | No | Python | v3.10.0 | 2026-09-22 |
| mgmt | 4.3k | GPL-3.0 | Open source | No | Go | 1.1.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| Foreman | 3k | GPL-3.0 | Open source | No | Ruby | 5.0.1 | 2026-10-06 |
| Colmena | 2.4k | MIT | Open source | No | Rust | v0.5.0 | 2026-10-02 |
| Rudder | 716 | GPL-3.0 | Open source | No | Scala | 9.1.4 | 2026-10-06 |
| CFEngine | 538 | Other | Open source | No | C | 3.28.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| OpenVox | 192 | Apache-2.0 | Open source | No | Ruby | 9.0.0 | 2026-10-06 |
15 tools
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
- Language
- Python
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 16k
- Latest
- v3008.3
- Last push
- 2026-10-03
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Modern UI and powerful API for Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt, PowerShell and other DevOps tools.
A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.
The PHP deployment tool with support for popular frameworks out of the box
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
- Language
- Ruby
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 8.2k
- Latest
- v15.8.23
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
Server automation framework and application
- Language
- Ruby
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 8k
- Latest
- 7.34.0
- Last push
- 2026-08-06
🔧 pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast and scales from one server to thousands.
Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!
an application that automates the lifecycle of servers
A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool [maintainer=@stepbrobd, @NickCao, @zhaofengli]
Rudder is a configuration and security automation platform. Manage your Cloud, hybrid or on-premises infrastructure in a simple, scalable and dynamic way.
CFEngine Community
OpenVox is the modern open source implementation of the world's most capable configuration management platform.
- Language
- Ruby
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 192
- Latest
- 9.0.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-06