Configuration Management
Sorted by GitHub stars, which measures attention rather than fitness. Read the release date and the commit count next to it before picking one.
| Tool | Stars |
|---|---|
Provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-31 | 70,618 |
Event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management software. Apache-2.0 · released 2026-07-26 | 15,650 |
Initialization tool to automate the configuration of VMs, cloud instances, or machines on a network. GPL-3.0, Apache-2.0 · released 2026-07-29 | 3,809 |
Scalable and dynamic configuration management system for patching, security & compliance, based on CFEngine. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-31 | 707 |
Configuration management system for automated configuration and maintenance of large-scale computer systems. GPL-3.0 · released unknown | 535 |
Community fork of the last open source version of [Puppet](https://www.puppet.com/), a software configuration management tool which includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration. Apache-2.0 · released 2026-09-04 | 187 |
Free distribution of [Chef](https://www.chef.io/products/chef-infra), a configuration management tool using a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration "recipes". Apache-2.0 · released unknown | n/a |
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