====== Compare automation tools (opensource) ======


You can go through the below table to get an overview of the metrics on which I will be comparing these tools.

^Metrics	^Chef 	^Puppet	^Ansible	^Saltstack^
|Availability|	✔|	✔|	✔|	✔|
|Ease of Setup|	Not very easy|	Not very easy|	Easy|	Not very easy|
|Management|	Not very easy|	Not very easy|	Easy|	Easy|
|Scalability|	Highly Scalable|	Highly Scalable|	Highly Scalable|	Highly Scalable|
|Configuration language	|DSL(Ruby)|	DSL(PuppetDSL)|	YAML(Python)|	YAML(Python)|
|Interoperability	|High|	High|	High|	High|
|Pricing (upto 100 nodes)|	$13700|	$11200-$19900|	$10,000|	$15,000(approx.)|


These are many more factors on which you can compare these tools. Let’s dig deeper into each tool and understand the difference between Chef vs Puppet vs Ansible vs Saltstack.

^   Product Capabilities   ^^^
^ Chef ^ Puppet ^ Ansible ^
|Continuous delivery with automated workflow|Orchestration|Simple orchestration|
|Compliance and security management|Automated provisioning|Streamlined provisioning|
|Infrastructure automation|Code and node management|Continuous delivery with automated workflow|
| |Configuration automation|App deployment|
| |Simple visualization and reporting|Security and compliance integration into automated processes|
| |High transparency| |
| |Role-based access control| |






https://www.edureka.co/blog/chef-vs-puppet-vs-ansible-vs-saltstack/

https://www.veritis.com/blog/chef-vs-puppet-vs-ansible-comparison-of-devops-management-tools/