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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.

#RepoScoreLicenceStars
1apenella/go-ansible7.7MIT1,124
2ansible-middleware/keycloak4.8Apache-2.0140
3oefenweb/ansible-postfix7.8MIT185
4darkoperator/posh-ssh7.2BSD-3-Clause1,058
5mattrobinsonsre/terrapod4.7MPL-2.0265
6hoangsonww/boxed-inventory-app2.0MIT16

The alternatives in detail

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