Chef alternatives and similar gems
Based on the "DevOps Tools" category.
Alternatively, view Chef alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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BOSH
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services. -
Request-log-analyzer
Create reports based on your log files. Supports Rails, Apache, MySQL, Delayed::Job, and other formats. -
Rubber
A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to various service providers, including EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers. -
Einhorn
DISCONTINUED. Einhorn will open one or more shared sockets and run multiple copies of your process. You can seamlessly reload your code, dynamically reconfigure Einhorn, and more. -
itamae
Configuration management tool inspired by Chef, but simpler and lightweight. Formerly known as Lightchef. -
Blender
DISCONTINUED. A modular system orchestration framework with pluggable driver and host discovery. -
Kanrisuru
Kanrisuru helps you manage your remote servers with objected oriented ruby. Results come back as structured data, parsed, prepared and ready for you to easily use in your applications.
Scout Monitoring - Performance metrics and, now, Logs Management Monitoring with Scout Monitoring
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