Comparison of open-source configuration management software: Difference between revisions

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2025-01-07 3.2526.0,<ref name="CFEngine 3.2526.0 release blog post">{{cite web |url=https://cfengine.com/blog/2025/cfengine-3-2526-released-auditabilityadmin/ |title=CFEngine 3.2526.0 released |publisher=Northern.tech AS.}}</ref>

20242025-1205-0413 3.24.12,<ref name="CFEngine 3.24.12 release blog post">{{cite web |url=https://cfengine.com/blog/20242025/cfengine-3-21-67-and-3-24-12-released/ |title=CFEngine 3.24.12 released |publisher=Northern.tech AS.}}</ref>

20242025-1205-0413 3.21.67<ref name="CFEngine 3.21.67 release blog post">{{cite web |url=https://cfengine.com/blog/20242025/cfengine-3-21-67-and-3-24-12-released/ |title=CFEngine 3.21.67 released |publisher=Northern.tech AS.}}</ref>

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! {{rh}} | Consfigurator

| [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]] ([[Steel Bank Common Lisp|SBCL]])

| [[GNU General Public License#Version 3|GPLv3+]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Consfigurator | url=https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/consfigurator/ }}</ref>

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| 1.4.2 2024-07-26 1.4.2<ref>{{cite web | title=Tags · spwhitton/Consfigurator | website=[[GitHub]] | url=https://github.com/spwhitton/consfigurator/tags }}</ref>

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! {{rh}} | [[Guix]]

| [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]] ([[GNU Guile|Guile]])<ref>{{Cite web | title=GNU Guix Reference Manual | url=https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#System-Configuration | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612235408/https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html | access-date=2025-08-30 | archive-date=2021-06-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title=GNU Guix Reference Manual | url=https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#Invoking-guix-deploy | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612235408/https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html | access-date=2025-08-30 | archive-date=2021-06-12}}</ref>

| [[GNU General Public License#Version 3|GPLv3+]]<ref>{{Cite web | title=gnu.scm - guix.git - Mirror of https://codeberg.org/guix/guix {{!}} GNU Guix and GNU Guix System | url=https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu.scm?h=v1.4.0#n8 | access-date=2025-08-30 | website=git.savannah.gnu.org}}</ref>

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! {{rh}} | [[ISconf]]

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| {{yes}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://demo.jujucharms.com/trusty/juju-gui/ |title=Juju Gui |publisher=jujucharms.com |date=2015-06-15 |access-date=2015-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621233749/https://demo.jujucharms.com/trusty/juju-gui/ |archive-date=2015-06-21 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

| style="text-align:left;"|2010-09-17<ref>{{cite web|url=https://launchpad.net/juju/+series |title=timeline: pyjuju |publisher=Launchpad.net |access-date=2014-02-10}}</ref>

| style="text-align:left;"|20242025-0206-1509 3.6.07<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/juju/juju/releases |title=GitHub |publisher=github.com |access-date=20242025-1106-2609}}</ref>

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! {{rh}} | Local ConFiGuration system ([[LCFG]])

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| {{no}}<ref>Server authenticates to client, but client does not authenticate to server. See [httphttps://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ocsinventory/OCS_Inventory_NG-Installation_and_Administration_Guide_1.9_EN.pdf.zip?download OCS Inventory NG Installation and Administration guide], page 114.</ref>

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| {{yes}}{{efn|name="Verify-Puppet"|Using the --noop option}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/agent.html |title=puppet agent Man Page — Documentation — Puppet Labs |publisher=Docs.puppetlabs.com |access-date=2014-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707135331/http://docs.puppetlabs.com/man/agent.html |archive-date=2013-07-07 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

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| {{yes}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olindata.com/blog/2014/01/puppet-management-gui-comparison|title=Puppet Management GUI Comparison|work=olindata.com|access-date=2015-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150117063953/http://www.olindata.com/blog/2014/01/puppet-management-gui-comparison|archive-date=2015-01-17|url-status=deadusurped}}</ref>

| style="text-align:left;"|2005-08-30<ref>{{cite web|url=http://puppetlabs.com/downloads/puppet/?C=M;O=A |title=Index of /puppet |publisher=Puppetlabs.com |access-date=2014-02-10}}</ref>

| style="text-align:left;"|2024-04 8.6.0, 7.30.0 (client),<ref>{{cite web |title=Puppet release notes |url=https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/release_notes_puppet.html |access-date=2024-05-06}}</ref> 2024-04 8.6.0, 7.17.0 (server)<ref>{{cite web |title=Puppet Server: Release Notes |url=https://puppet.com/docs/puppetserver/latest/release_notes.html |access-date=2024-05-06}}</ref>

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| style="text-align:left;"|2002-03-26<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=141444&package_id=155276&release_id=392624 |title=Radmind - Browse /radmind/radmind-0-6-0 at |publisher=Sourceforge.net |date=2006-02-10 |access-date=2014-02-10}}</ref>

| style="text-align:left;"|2008-10-08 1.13.0<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=141444|title=Radmind|author=fitterhappier|work=sourceforge.net}}</ref>

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! {{rh}} | [[Rex (software)|Rex]]

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! {{rh}} | [[STAF]]

| [[C++]]

| [[Common Public License|CPL]]<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://staf.sourceforge.net/license.php|title=Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF)|work=sourceforge.net}}</ref>

| {{no}}{{efn|name="Network Trust"|Network Trust: Trusts the network, like rsh.}}{{efn|name="User-only Auth"|User-only Auth: User authenticates to server via password, but uses Network Trust to authenticate user to server, like telnet.}}

| {{partial}}<ref>There is a [httphttps://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=940264&group_id=33142&atid=407384 feature request for a Secure TCP/IP Connection Provider], and one of the [httphttps://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=OF7C30AE4D.50AE13E2-ON862572B4.004D3583-862572B4.004E54FC%40us.ibm.com developers stated] on 2007-04-05 that ''"You will need to download the source code for OpenSSL and point the build files at it. Other than that, it should just work."'', so it looks like there may be working encryption if you build from scratch instead of using the prebuilt binaries. It is unclear what if any authentication building against OpenSSL would give STAF.</ref>

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| style="text-align:left;"|1998-02-16<ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://staf.sourceforge.net/history.php|title=Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF)|work=sourceforge.net}}</ref>

| style="text-align:left;"|2012-12-16 3.4.16 <ref>{{cite web|url=httphttps://staf.sourceforge.net/|title=Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF)|work=sourceforge.net}}</ref>

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! {{rh}} | Synctool<ref>[http://www.heiho.net/synctool/ Synctool] aims to be easy to understand and use. It is built in Python and uses SSH and Rsync.</ref>

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| style="text-align:left;"| 2018-06<ref name="Uyuni: Forking Spacewalk with Salt and Containers">{{cite web|url=https://news.opensuse.org/2018/05/26/uyuni-forking-spacewalk-with-salt-and-containers/|title=Uyuni: Forking Spacewalk with Salt and Containers|date=26 May 2018}}</ref>

| style="text-align:left;"| 312024-01-202431-01 2024.01<ref>{{Cite web |title="Uyuni 2024.01 is released" |url=https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/QJBVKBUS25XJHEUAFHXGYDYT44QCZ334/ |access-date=2024-02-01 |website=Uyuni |language=en}}</ref>

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| {{yes}}<ref>[httphttps://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1458480&group_id=33142&atid=407383][httphttps://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1338199&group_id=33142&atid=407383 10.2+ (?)]</ref>

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;[[Guix]]

:Guix integrates many things in the same tool (a distribution, package manager, configuration management tool, container environment, etc). To remotely manage systems, it needs the target machines to already run Guix<ref>{{Cite web | title=GNU Guix Reference Manual | url=https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#index-machine_002dssh_002dconfiguration | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612235408/https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html | access-date=2025-08-30 | archive-date=2021-06-12}}</ref> or it can also alternatively deploy configurations inside Digital Ocean Droplet.<ref>{{Cite web | title=GNU Guix Reference Manual | url=https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#index-digital_002docean_002dconfiguration | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612235408/https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html | access-date=2025-08-30 | archive-date=2021-06-12}}</ref> The machines are configured with Scheme.

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;[[Spacewalk (software)|Spacewalk]]

:Spacewalk is an open source Linux and Solaris systems management solution{{buzzword inline|date=August 2019}}service and is the upstream project for the source of Red Hat Network Satellite. Spacewalk works with RHEL, Fedora, and other RHEL derivative distributions like CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc. There are ongoing efforts on getting it packaged for inclusion in Fedora. Spacewalk provides systems inventory (hardware and software information, installation and updates of software, collection and distribution of custom software packages into manageable groups, provision systems, management and deployment of configuration files, system monitoring, virtual guest provisioning, starting/stopping/configuring virtual guests and delegating all of these actions to local or LDAP users and system entitlements). As of May 2020, Spacewalk is now EOL with users having moved to either Uyuni or Foreman/Katello.

;[[Software Testing Automation Framework|STAF]]

:The Software Testing Automation Framework (STAF) enables users to create cross-platform, distributed software test environments. STAF removes the tedium of building an automation infrastructure, thus enabling users to focus on building their automation solutionservice.{{buzzword inline|date=August 2019}} The STAF framework provides the foundation upon which to build higher-level solutions{{buzzword inline|date=August 2019}}products, and provides a pluggable approach supported across a large variety of platforms and languages.

;Synctool