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Top 23 Python Configuration Management Projects
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SaltStack
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Of course, booting from a disk is not the only option. If you want to automate installs across servers - you have to boot from the network. That is something you could play around with, in GNS3 for example, using FAI or your own system based on SaltStack. You could skip the installation altogether, and use a Live Image, or a Thin Client.
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pyinfra
🔧 pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast and scales from one server to thousands.
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autorandr
Auto-detect the connected display hardware and load the appropriate X11 setup using xrandr
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openwisp-controller
Network and WiFi controller: provisioning, configuration management and updates, (pull via openwisp-config or push via SSH), x509 PKI management and more. Mainly OpenWRT, but designed to work also on other systems.
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pyrallis
Pyrallis is a framework for structured configuration parsing from both cmd and files. Simply define your desired configuration structure as a dataclass and let pyrallis do the rest!
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spock
spock is a framework that helps manage complex parameter configurations during research and development of Python applications (by fidelity)
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parse_it
A python library for parsing multiple types of config files, envvars & command line arguments that takes the headache out of setting app configurations.
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Project mention: I made a 3D printed VTOL that can fly 130 miles (as a CAD beginner) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-10
Mission Planner is an alright GCS but awful for configuration. Use this instead https://github.com/ArduPilot/MethodicConfigurator.
And if you're looking for other ground controls, you could try out QGroundControl or Mavproxy (terminal based).
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kitten
Kitten is a free and open-source network scanner. Currently only runs on Linux. (by karastift)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Configuration Management projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | SaltStack | 14,597 |
| 2 | yadm | 5,800 |
| 3 | pyinfra | 4,313 |
| 4 | dynaconf | 4,052 |
| 5 | autorandr | 2,615 |
| 6 | gin-config | 2,111 |
| 7 | strictyaml | 1,549 |
| 8 | yacs | 1,311 |
| 9 | eNMS | 820 |
| 10 | openwisp-controller | 624 |
| 11 | Kconfiglib | 482 |
| 12 | kas | 467 |
| 13 | ConfZ | 243 |
| 14 | pyrallis | 232 |
| 15 | vyper | 148 |
| 16 | spock | 132 |
| 17 | parse_it | 113 |
| 18 | MethodicConfigurator | 84 |
| 19 | transible | 35 |
| 20 | sitri | 24 |
| 21 | filetailor | 12 |
| 22 | kitten | 4 |
| 23 | pipcs | 2 |
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