CFEngine vs Pallet

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CFEngine		Pallet
	Project
4	Mentions	-
472	Stars	807
1.5%	Growth	0.1%
9.4	Activity	0.0
2 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 6 years ago
C	Language	Clojure
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2024
2023 Development Tool Map
20 projects | dev.to | 19 Feb 2023
Replacement for Chef?
3 projects | /r/devops | 26 Nov 2022

Another oldie but goodie is cfengine: https://cfengine.com/
What does everyone use for automating setting up a new VPS?
3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 2 Jan 2022

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.

Pallet

Posts with mentions or reviews of Pallet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Pallet yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CFEngine and Pallet you can also consider the following projects:

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

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

(R)?ex - Rex, the friendly automation framework

gru - Orchestration made easy with Go and Lua

mgmt - Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!

Puppet - Server automation framework and application

GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches

Home Manager using Nix - Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]