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Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.

Ansible is a radically simple model-driven configuration management, deployment, and command execution framework. Other tools in this space have been too complicated for too long, require too much...

Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way. Salt allows commands to be executed across large …

Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each …

Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. It glues together and automates many associated Linux tasks so you do not have to …

Cfengine, the world technology leader in datacenter automation, based on state-of-the-art research and development, is used by more than 5000 companies on millions of machines world-wide. Versatile and...

Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

A web-based interface for streamlining the use of SSH for deployments and system administration tasks across groups of remote servers.

Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks. It...

RunDeck is an open source automation service with a web console, command line tools and a WebAPI. It lets you easily run automation tasks across a set of nodes.

Crowbar is an Open Source platform for server provisioning and deployment from bare metal. It provides server discovery, firmware upgrades, and operating system installation using PXE Boot. It deploys...

Mina is a really fast deployer and server automation tool written in Ruby.

glu is an open source deployment and monitoring automation platform.

Network Storage Appliance featuring the zfs filesystem, which provides block-level checksumming & automated tier management most notably. It provides enterprise class experience, with an easy to use web...

Pallet is platform for agile and programmatic automation of infrastructure in the cloud, on server racks or directly on virtual machines. Pallet provides cloud provider and operating system independence, and...

Sprinkle is a software provisioning tool you can use to build remote servers with. eg. to install a Rails, or Sinatra stack on a brand new slice directly after its …