The best Puppet alternatives

CFEngine suits administrators managing configuration, security, or compliance across Linux and Windows systems.

Pulumi is for engineers who want to manage infrastructure in general-purpose languages across supported cloud providers.

CloudFormation may suit teams managing AWS infrastructure through templates, including CI/CD workflows and deployments spanning accounts or Regions.

MAAS suits teams managing physical servers for private cloud, server automation, or bare-metal Kubernetes.

Chef Infra fits teams managing mixed operating-system fleets across data centers, cloud, and edge environments.

Uyuni suits administrators managing multiple Linux machines across on-premises or cloud environments.

Terragrunt may suit infrastructure teams coordinating Terraform or OpenTofu deployments across units and stacks.

Juju suits teams managing application lifecycles across cloud, Kubernetes, virtual-machine, or bare-metal infrastructure.

Kubernetes suits teams deploying and managing containerized workloads across local machines, cloud environments, or datacenters.

OpenTofu suits infrastructure teams defining and managing cloud or on-premises resources through configuration.

Salt suits teams that need to configure and orchestrate systems across remote infrastructure.

Spacelift suits organizations seeking infrastructure lifecycle automation, developer self-service, golden paths, guardrails, and governance.

Foreman suits system administrators managing physical or virtual servers across on-premises and cloud environments.

AWS CDK is intended for developers and administrators defining AWS infrastructure in supported programming languages.

OpenVox suits teams managing system configuration across supported Linux, macOS, or Windows environments, whether using server-managed agents or…

Quattor is suited to administrators managing Linux infrastructure who can work with its configuration model and site-specific setup.

It is intended for OpenStack end users, operators, and developers managing cloud infrastructure as code.

Crossplane suits platform engineering teams building self-hosted control planes on Kubernetes.