Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Spot, Simplifying DevOps Automation
I just released the first stable version of a new tool called "Spot" (also known as simplotask). As someone who has had to deal with the frustration of broken Ansible dependencies and the endless googling required to add even the most trivial elements to playbooks, I decided to create a tool that simplifies these tasks. That's how Spot was born - a simple yet flexible tool for automating deployment tasks.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Spot, Simplifying DevOps Automation launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Assisted automation writing tool for your Ansible Playbooks
2022 · steampunk.si · its alternatives →
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Happy new year folks! This tool was born out of a situation where I had 'inherited' a bunch of servers that were not under any form of config management. Oh, the horror... Enroll 'harvests' system information such as what packages are installed, what services are running, what files have 'differed' from their out-of-the-box defaults, and what other custom snowflake data might exist. The harvest state data can be kept as its own sort of SBOM, but also can be converted in a mere second or two into fully-functional Ansible roles/playbooks/inventory. It can be run remotely over SSH or…
Jan 2026 · enroll.sh · its alternatives →
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Fast and simple IT automation and configuration management
2016 · its alternatives →
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Server and configuration management for humans
2015 · ansiblefordevops.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive Ansible tutorials with dead simple setup via Docker - turkenh/ansible-interactive-tutorial
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automating the continuous deployment pipeline
2017 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · spotml.io · its alternatives →
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Simple Saltstack-like deployment system in 2k lines of Python - mattbillenstein/salty
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Seven years in the making (I admit that I did get a kid at some point which slowed down progress and brought it to a halt quite a few times), I decided to finaly release it, with a rather drastic change to the now (I believe) generous licensing model. Unlike current major players in this field, I decided to go with uncrippled, free version for commercial use for corps with up to 1M USD ARR. I poured my heart and soul into this, not because I was looking for financial success, but because I felt it just had to be done, given the price hikes wherever you look today. While my wife and kid were…
Aug 2026 · fdeploy.com · its alternatives →
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Runbook▲81Free automated DevOps with IFTTT-style mitigation of alerts
2014 · runbook.io · its alternatives →
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Efficiently manage your Rails environment with Ansible.
2015 · efficientrailsdevops.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there. Anand, here from LocalOps. We have built a deployment automation tool to provision production environments on AWS and other cloud providers, with just a few clicks. Especially to make Private-SaaS / Single tenant deployments easy. We opened up signups for everyone, after being in closed beta for a while. Checkout https://localops.co Why did we build LocalOps? We found businesses in regulated industries such as Financial services and Healthcare have a lot of restrictions while signing up for B2B SaaS. They can’t share their data as freely as others, need data hosting…
2024 · localops.co · its alternatives →
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A simple golang application to automate the deployment of software releases. - skx/deployr
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, long time lurker here. I humbly present ara which is a project I created back at Red Hat in 2016 (before AWX was open source) to make my life easier working with distributed and large scale Ansible playbooks. It is designed to be simple and compatible with however you're already running Ansible today without needing to change much of your existing workflows. My time and skills are limited but I have learned a lot and I am happy with how the project has steadily improved over the years with the much appreciated help of contributors. If you'd like to read more about the project, the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Garden is a DevOps automation tool for developing and testing Kubernetes apps faster
2020 · garden.io · its alternatives →
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