Best Open-Source Configuration Management Tool

Our results here are admittedly a little different from what we expected. Although I love apt as much as the next guy (moo), I never considered it a configuration management tool. Whether it was meant as a non-answer (I don't need no stinking configuration management!) or a desire to include configuration into deployable packages, apt was an unexpected winner. It also was cool to see Subversion, as I have heard of people using it for managing configuration revisions, and it's neat to see evidence of that reflected here.

  • apt 38.8%

  • Puppet 21.1%

  • Yast 11.6%

  • Other 9.6%*

  • Subversion 9.2%

  • SaltStack 6.6%

  • CFEngine 3.1%

*Popular write-ins: Ansible, Chef and git.

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