Salt alternatives and similar tools

Based on the "Cloud Orchestration" category.
Alternatively, view SaltStack alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.

Kubernetes

10.0 10.0 Salt VS Kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
etcd

9.8 9.9 Salt VS etcd

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

Promo www.influxdata.com

consul

9.6 9.9 Salt VS consul

Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
zookeeper

9.3 8.3 L1 Salt VS zookeeper

Apache ZooKeeper
Nomad

8.9 9.9 Salt VS Nomad

Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
serf

7.6 5.8 Salt VS serf

Service orchestration and management tool.
StackStorm

7.6 9.5 Salt VS StackStorm

StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html
Rundeck

7.5 9.9 Salt VS Rundeck

Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts
doozerd

6.6 0.0 Salt VS doozerd

A consistent distributed data store.
BOSH

6.5 9.3 L4 Salt VS BOSH

Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Juju

6.3 9.9 Salt VS Juju

Orchestration engine that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure (Kubernetes or otherwise).
Cloud Foundry

5.6 0.0 Salt VS Cloud Foundry

Deprecated: Cloud Foundry Release
MCollective

4.3 0.0 L5 Salt VS MCollective

MCollective Server and Client Puppet Module
Spruce

3.9 3.2 Salt VS Spruce

A BOSH template merge tool
Overcast

3.9 5.8 Salt VS Overcast

Orchestrate VMs from your terminal
CloudSlang

3.7 8.6 Salt VS CloudSlang

Ready-Made CloudSlang Flows and Operations
Genesis

2.9 9.4 Salt VS Genesis

A BOSH Deployment Paradigm
Cloudify

2.4 0.0 L3 Salt VS Cloudify

Open source TOSCA-based cloud orchestration software platform written in Python and YAML.
Terraform

- Salt VS Terraform

Terraform works with many cloud providers and creates infrastructure from code.