Open source alternatives to Ansible

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Ansible does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Ansible does

Configure servers with playbookscore
Run commands across many serverscore
App deployment
Inventory of hosts
Reusable roles and modules
Secrets with vault

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
saltConfiguration management and remote execution for large server fleets	Replaces it81%	16k+8	622	18 days ago	100%	Needs a server	Apache-2.0
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Inventory of hosts. Not shown: Secrets with vault.See the evidence Configure servers with playbookscoreYesEnsuring consistent configuration and preventing configuration drift. Run commands across many serverscoreYesConfiguration management and remote execution for large server fleets App deploymentYesInstalling and configuring software applications and services. Inventory of hostsPartlyAccept the minion keys Reusable roles and modulesYescreating a variety of execution and state modules Secrets with vaultNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it.

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