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Open source alternatives to Red Hat Ansible[005]
Red Hat Ansible automates server configuration, application deployment and IT orchestration using agentless, YAML-defined playbooks. Below are 5 self-hostable open source alternatives, ranked by GitHub popularity.
Harness
Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries.
★ STARS
35.6k
⑂ FORKS
3.1k
OpenTofu
OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure.
★ STARS
28.6k
⑂ FORKS
1.2k
Pulumi
Infrastructure as Code in any programming language
★ STARS
25.2k
⑂ FORKS
1.4k
Digger
Digger is an open source IaC orchestration tool. Digger allows you to run IaC in your existing CI pipeline
★ STARS
4.9k
⑂ FORKS
588
Terrateam
Terrateam is open-source GitOps infrastructure orchestration. It integrates with GitHub to automate Terraform, OpenTofu, CDKTF, Terragrunt, and Pulumi workflows through pull requests.
★ STARS
1.2k
⑂ FORKS
65
// EDITOR'S TAKE
None of these is a direct configuration-management swap, but OpenTofu comes closest for declarative infrastructure you can version and re-apply, and it is the safest choice given the community behind it. Pulumi expresses the same thing in real programming languages if your team prefers code over HCL, while Harness covers the deployment pipeline rather than the machine state.
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What is the best open source Red Hat Ansible alternative?
Harness is the most popular open source Red Hat Ansible alternative by GitHub stars (35,561 stars). The other 4 options are ranked above.
Are these Red Hat Ansible alternatives self-hostable?
Yes — every project listed here is open source and runs on your own infrastructure. Click into a project to see its license, stars, language, and current health status.
Are they free?
All projects shown are free and open source. Check each project's license page for the terms — most are MIT, Apache 2.0, or AGPL.
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