18.4
Puppet Enterprise provides policy-driven configuration management and infrastructure automation for medium and large organizations handling complex…
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
Best IT Configuration Management Software in 2026
Managing configuration across systems involves choices about how settings are defined, applied, and monitored. Compare configuration as code with agentless operation and drift detection, and consider whether compliance policies and operating system coverage match your environment. Deployment model and managed node limit can help clarify operational fit. Free-plan availability and paid-from pricing are included for…
28.2
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinux
38.0
Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool for defining and managing cloud and on-premises resources with human-readable configuration files.
Free planWebAPILinux
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CFEngine
CFEngine automates infrastructure, security and compliance by steering managed systems toward a state defined by users.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxmacOS7.8Free plan - 5
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation models, provisions, and manages related AWS and third-party resources as infrastructure as code.
Free planiOSWebAPILinux7.7Free plan - 6
Pulumi
Pulumi helps engineers define and manage infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code using general-purpose languages.
Free planWebAPILinuxmacOS7.4From $40 a month - 7
Uyuni
Uyuni is a free, open-source tool for configuration and infrastructure management across groups of machines.
Free planOpen sourceWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.4Free plan - 8
Google Cloud VM Manager
Google Cloud VM Manager manages operating systems across Windows and Linux VM fleets running on Compute Engine.
Free planWebAPILinuxWindows7.1Free plan - 9
Canonical Landscape
Canonical Landscape is a systems management tool for administering Ubuntu desktops, servers, cloud instances, IoT devices, and other Ubuntu systems.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted7.0From $6,861 a year - 10
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry is an Oracle-managed service for storing, sharing, and managing container images.
Free planWebAPILinux7.0Free plan - 11
Salt
Salt is an open-source framework for remote execution, configuration management, provisioning, and infrastructure orchestration.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted7.0Free plan - 12
Foreman
Foreman is a free, open-source lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.9Free plan - 13
Juju
Juju is Canonical's open-source orchestration engine for deploying, integrating and managing application lifecycles with charms.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.9Free plan - 14
Chef Infra
Chef Infra is configuration management software for automating infrastructure setup and maintaining a defined system state.
APILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.7From $59 a year - 15
Nix
Nix is a package manager and system configuration tool for creating reproducible, declarative environments.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.7Free plan - 16
AWS Systems Manager State Manager
AWS Systems Manager State Manager automates keeping managed nodes and other AWS resources in a defined state.
Free planWebLinuxmacOSWindows6.4Free plan - 17
OpenTofu
OpenTofu is a free infrastructure as code tool for defining cloud and on-premises resources in human-readable configuration files.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows6.4Free plan - 18
OpenStack Heat
OpenStack Heat is a free, open-source orchestration service for building cloud applications from declarative templates in an OpenStack environment.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 19
SUSE Multi-Linux Manager
SUSE Multi-Linux Manager provides a central console for patching, content lifecycle management, and monitoring across mixed Linux environments.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.0 - 20
Crossplane
Crossplane is an open-source control plane framework for platform engineering, designed to help teams manage cloud-native software through control planes they build.
Free planSelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 215.7Free plan
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Azure Machine Configuration
Azure Machine Configuration is a cloud service for defining machine settings with policy as code and checking whether systems stay aligned.
Web5.4From $6 a month - 23
Google Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Google Cloud Infrastructure Manager is a paid managed service for deploying and managing Google Cloud infrastructure with Terraform configurations.
WebAPI5.4 - 24
Azure Bicep
WebLinuxmacOSWindows5.2 - 25
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is paid web software for provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters across datacenters, public…
Web5.1