6 alternatives to ansible
ansible/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 approache (71,110 stars, GPL-3.0, infra, automation, dev-tools).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from ansible/ansible itself (licence class: strong-copyleft), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
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| 1 | apenella/go-ansible | 7.7 | MIT | 1,124 |
| 2 | ansible-middleware/keycloak | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 140 |
| 3 | oefenweb/ansible-postfix | 7.8 | MIT | 185 |
| 4 | darkoperator/posh-ssh | 7.2 | BSD-3-Clause | 1,058 |
| 5 | mattrobinsonsre/terrapod | 4.7 | MPL-2.0 | 265 |
| 6 | hoangsonww/boxed-inventory-app | 2.0 | MIT | 16 |
The alternatives in detail
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Go-ansible is a Go package that enables the execution of ansible-playbook or ansible commands directly from Golang applications. It supports a wide range of options for each command, enabling smooth integration of Ansiblscore 7.7/10 · MIT permissive · 1,124 stars · 51 components · search them
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Collection to install and configure Keycloak or Red Hat Single Sign-On / Red Hat Build of Keycloakscore 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 140 stars · 42 components · search them
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Ansible role to set up postfix in Debian-like systemsscore 7.8/10 · MIT permissive · 185 stars · 8 components · search them
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PowerShell Module for automating tasks on remote systems using SSHscore 7.2/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 1,058 stars · 42 components · search them
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Self-hosted, open-source platform for OpenTofu, Terraform, Pulumi and Ansible — a Terraform Enterprise and Ansible Tower replacement, with Terragrunt support, OPA policy-as-code and label-based RBAC.score 4.7/10 · MPL-2.0 weak-copyleft · 265 stars · 916 components · search them
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📦 A Next.js, PostgreSQL, & Supabase-powered PWA that turns your physical belongings into a fully searchable, shareable inventory - organize items into boxes, tag and photograph them, and track packed status. With BoxedAIscore 2.0/10 · MIT permissive · 16 stars · 52 components · search them
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