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| CFEngine | Ansible | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 390 | |
| 472 | 61,137 | |
| 1.5% | 1.1% | |
| 9.4 | 9.8 | |
| 2 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| C | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
CFEngine
Posts with mentions or reviews of CFEngine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.
- German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
- 2023 Development Tool Map
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Replacement for Chef?
Another oldie but goodie is cfengine: https://cfengine.com/
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What does everyone use for automating setting up a new VPS?
I'm using rudder (https://www.rudder.io/), it's based on cfengine (https://cfengine.com/). But this is more enterprise ready, you'll be fine with lightweight ansible. Nice thing is, that rudder ensures compliance by periodically executing all defined rules on all endpoints.
Ansible
Posts with mentions or reviews of Ansible.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.
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Grant Kubernetes Pods Access to AWS Services Using OpenID Connect
Ansible v2.16
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Set up an Automation script with Ansible
Ansible is a tool used to help manage software automation processes, configuration management across machines, deployment as well as remote execution of commands and scripts. In sports, Ansible operates as the coach of your team by providing strategies (playbooks), and actions, and ensuring the smooth execution of tasks across your infrastructure, just like a coach guides and directs players (Servers)during a game.
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Interesting Uses of Ansible's ternary filter
They support for-if from python, too: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#loop-f... but I haven't tried the "recursive" keyword to know if ansible supports that. I say "ansible supports that" because they don't just drop jinja2 into ansible and call it a draw, they have a bunch of custom execution integrations: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.3/lib/ansible/...
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
To manage a VM, you can use something as simple as just manual actions over SSH, or can use tools like Ansible, Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform or other automations. For an app where there is minimal load and security/reliability concern, VMs are still a great option that provide a lot of value for the buck
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A Journey to Find an Ultimate Development Environment
In this article's context, it is simply a tool that provides a declarative way to automate your machine/OS to configure the development machine as you want (install package, modify the configuration, etc). Examples of these tools are Ansible, Puppet, etc.
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The Director of "Toy Story" Also Drew the BSD Daemon Logo
Now we're getting more tangential, but for years, Ansible releases were named for Van Halen songs (see old Changelog here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.8.4/CHANGELOG.md)
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Running stateful workloads on Kubernetes with Rook Ceph
In the lab to follow, we'll quickly provision a 3-node kubeadm cluster (1 master, 2 workers) on the cloud provider of your choice using an automation stack comprised of OpenTofu and Ansible, then deploy Rook Ceph using the official Helm charts and confirm that we are now able to successfully create CSI volume snapshots from PVCs by reusing the MinIO example from our last article.
- Looking for a way to remote in to K's of raspberry pi's...
- ansible builder collections path
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The Bullhorn #119 (Ansible Newsletter)
Ansible-Core ↗
What are some alternatives?
When comparing CFEngine and Ansible you can also consider the following projects:
Pallet - Automates controlling and provisioning cloud server instances. DevOps for the JVM.
Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init
Chef - Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
pyinfra - pyinfra automates infrastructure using Python. It’s fast and scales from one server to thousands. Great for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.
(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework
Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
gru - Orchestration made easy with Go and Lua
Fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.
Puppet - Server automation framework and application
cloudinit - Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization