Infrastructure as Code

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Health score: 90/100.
Shipping score: 88/100.

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Best overallPulumi

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Healthier optionsPulumi, Meshery, OpenTofu, ProxmoxVE Scripts

Stronger current public-health signal than SST.

Verified open/source-visiblePulumi, Meshery, OpenTofu, ProxmoxVE Scripts

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Pulumi

Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀

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Health100

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Meshery

Meshery, the cloud native manager

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OpenTofu

Open-source infrastructure as code

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Shipping94

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Stars29k

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ProxmoxVE Scripts

Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (Community Edition)

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Health95

Shipping100

Score97

Confidence92

Stars28.5k

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Crossplane

The Cloud Native Control Plane

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Score97

Confidence95

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Terragrunt

Orchestration tool for scaling Terraform/OpenTofu infrastructure as code.

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Health93

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Score96

Confidence96

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Terrateam

Open-source GitOps orchestration for Terraform and OpenTofu workflows.

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Confidence98

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Atmos

👽 Terraform Orchestration Tool for DevOps. Keep environment configuration DRY with hierarchical imports of configurations, inheritance, and WAY more. Native support for Terraform and Helmfile.

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🔧 pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast and scales from one server to thousands.

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Health87

Shipping78

Score87

Confidence98

Stars5.7k

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DeployWhisper

AI-powered pre-deployment risk intelligence platform for infrastructure changes.

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Health74

Shipping84

Score82

Confidence88

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Terramate

Open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) orchestration platform: GitOps workflows, orchestration, code generation, observability, drift detection, asset management, policies, Slack notifications, and more. Integrates with Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, BitBucket Pipelines, and any other CI/CD platform.

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Health72

Shipping71

Score78

Confidence91

Stars3.6k

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ops0-cli

ops0 is an AI-powered natural language DevOps CLI native to Claude AI with ansible, terraform, kubernetes, aws, azure and docker operations in a single cli. An open-source alternative to complex DevOps workflows, manual

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Shipping66

Score74

Confidence92

Stars68

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