Open source alternatives to MCollective

This article outlines a few open source alternatives to MCollective that are supported in the latest version of open source Puppet. MCollective is a framework for building server orchestration or parallel job-execution systems. MCollective is deprecated in Puppet agent 5.5.4 and has been fully removed in Puppet 6.

Bolt

Bolt is an open source orchestration tool that helps you make on-demand changes to remote targets such as servers, network devices, and cloud services.

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Choria 

The Choria Project allows you to continue to use MCollective through a compatibility framework capable of running Mcollective agents.

Learn more at Choria.io »

Rundeck

Rundeck is an open source automation service with a web console, command line tools and a WebAPI. It lets you run automation tasks across a set of nodes.

Find out more about Rundeck Open Source Community »

Additional resources

Puppet Forge Choria module

Puppet Forge Rundeck module

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