Best Orchestration / Provisioning Software in 2026

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation models, provisions, and manages related AWS and third-party resources as infrastructure as code.

Pulumi

Pulumi helps engineers define and manage infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code using general-purpose languages.

Uyuni

Uyuni is a free, open-source tool for configuration and infrastructure management across groups of machines.

Qovery

Qovery describes itself as a Kubernetes control plane for people and AI agents, running on customers' own infrastructure.

Salt

Salt is an open-source framework for remote execution, configuration management, provisioning, and infrastructure orchestration.

Foreman

Foreman is a free, open-source lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers.

Juju

Juju is Canonical's open-source orchestration engine for deploying, integrating and managing application lifecycles with charms.

Spacelift

Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform for managing plans, applies, policy checks and drift detection.

Terragrunt

Terragrunt is an open-source infrastructure-as-code orchestration tool for running Terraform and OpenTofu at scale.

Chef Infra

Chef Infra is configuration management software for automating infrastructure setup and maintaining a defined system state.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open-source system for deploying and managing applications packaged in containers.

OpenTofu

OpenTofu is a free infrastructure as code tool for defining cloud and on-premises resources in human-readable configuration files.

Quattor

Quattor is a free, open-source Linux toolkit for automating installation, configuration, and management of clusters, farms, grids, and clouds.

Cycle

Cycle is a control plane for provisioning infrastructure and deploying containers, virtual machines, and functions across providers.

Facets

Facets gives platform teams a way to govern infrastructure while developers, including AI coding agents, can provision it through self-service workflows.

OpenVox

OpenVox is a free, open-source system for managing configuration across Linux, macOS, and Windows environments.

AWS CDK

AWS CDK is a framework for defining AWS infrastructure in programming languages and deploying it through AWS CloudFormation.

OpenStack Heat

OpenStack Heat is a free, open-source orchestration service for building cloud applications from declarative templates in an OpenStack environment.

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.

Google Cloud Infrastructure Manager

Google Cloud Infrastructure Manager is a paid managed service for deploying and managing Google Cloud infrastructure with Terraform configurations.

Azure Bicep

OpenText Automation Center

OpenText Automation Center is web software for creating and managing workflows.