Wave Report

The Forrester Wave™: Configuration Management Software For Infrastructure Automation, Q4 2017

The 14 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

October 11th, 2017
Chris Gardner, VP, Research Director
Chris Gardner VP, Research Director
Robert Stroud, null
Robert Stroud
With contributors:
Charles Betz , Will McKeon-White , Glenn O'Donnell

Summary

In our 25-criteria evaluation of configuration management providers, we identified the 14 most significant solutions — Ansible, Ansible Tower, CFEngine Community Edition, CFEngine Enterprise, Chef, Chef Automate, Microsoft Azure Automation, Microsoft Powershell DSC, Normation Professional Services, Open Source Puppet, Puppet Enterprise, Rudder, Salt, and SaltStack Enterprise — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. We focused on core features, including deployment, configuration modeling, monitoring and governance, and community support as well as on the vendors' ability to match a strategy to these features. This report helps infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals make the right choice when looking for configuration management solutions for their development and operations (DevOps) and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation.

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