Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform excels in integration and ease of use, suitable for straightforward implementations. In comparison, VMware Aria Automation offers a comprehensive feature set for orchestrating complex workflows, making it ideal for complex environments. Buyers should choose based on deployment complexity, support, and feature needs.
Puppet Data Center Automation helps sysadmins automate configuration and management of machines and the software running on them. With our software, businesses can make rapid, repeatable changes and automatically enforce the consistency of systems and devices, across physical and virtual machines, on prem or in the cloud.
Puppet Enterprise’s pricing is competitive.
Puppet Enterprise can be an expensive solution for smaller businesses.
Puppet Enterprise’s pricing is competitive.
Puppet Enterprise can be an expensive solution for smaller businesses.
Network configurations are in a constant flux and any wrong or unauthorized configuration change on live equipment can have profound effects on network security, reliability and the service provided.
OS Deployer automates the disk imaging and deployment process. It helps administrators capture images of different OS versions and store them in a network share, to create different deployment templates for various employee roles, and deploy the images to the new systems all from a central management console. With central image capturing and deployment capabilities, OS Deployer reduces support, training and management costs by standardizing your entire organization on one or more operating systems. OS Deployer creates an exact disk image of the given system including standard configuration, operating system, configuration files and all applications that can be deployed to multiple systems simultaneously, making it ideal for rapid bare-metal provisioning. Supported OS : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 2012, and Windows 2012 R2.
CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission critical IT infrastructure.