Best Software Configuration Management (SCM) Tools

SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. With the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date. The SecOps suite includes both Comply and Protect. Comply scans and remediates against CIS, DISA-STIG, NIST, PCI, HIPAA compliance standards. And Protect scans for vulnerabilities and patches and updates your operating systems.

Chef turns infrastructure into code. With Chef, you can automate how you build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure. Your infrastructure becomes as versionable, testable, and repeatable as application code. Chef Infrastructure Management ensures configurations are applied consistently in every environment with infrastructure management automation. Chef Compliance makes it easy to maintain and enforce compliance across the enterprise. Deliver successful application outcomes consistently at scale with Chef App Delivery. Chef Desktop allows IT teams to automate the deployment, management, and ongoing compliance of IT resources. Ensure configurations are applied consistently in every environment. Powerful policy-based configuration management system software. Runbook automation to consistently define, package & deliver applications. IT automation & DevOps dashboards for operational visibility.