Chef

Configuration management tool which uses a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration recipes. Supports Linux, UNIX, Windows, and AIX as first-class citizens for management.

     

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Consul

Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface. Register external services such as SaaS providers as well

     

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Nomad

Nomad is a lightweight workload orchestrator. It offers client instance scaling as well as workload scaling.

     

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Orc

A model driven orchestration tool for deployment of application clusters

     

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PowerShell Desired State Configuration

DSC is a new management platform in Windows PowerShell that enables deploying and managing configuration data for software services and managing the environment in which these services run.

     

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Puppet

Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.

     

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Rex

A agent-less server orchestration tool built on Perl

     

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Serf

Serf is a service discovery and orchestration tool which is highly decentralized, highly available, fault tolerant, cross platform and extremely lightweight.

     

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