Compare the Top Free Configuration Management Software as of July 2025

What is Free Configuration Management Software?

Configuration management software is used to track and manage the configuration of systems, networks, and software throughout their lifecycle. It allows teams to automate the process of setting up and maintaining consistent configurations across multiple environments, reducing human error and ensuring standardization. This software helps monitor changes, providing version control and audit trails to maintain system integrity and compliance. It is especially useful in complex IT infrastructures, enabling teams to deploy, update, and scale systems efficiently. Configuration management software ultimately improves system reliability, reduces downtime, and facilitates collaboration among development and operations teams. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Configuration Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Unimus

    Unimus

    NetCore j.s.a. (Unimus)

    Taking control of the configuration of your network equipment is what Unimus offers. Supporting over 400 devices from 150 vendors, Unimus has an expanding suite of tools for Network Administrators working with networks of a dozen to thousands of devices. Unimus allows you to quickly search your network's configuration, both history and the active configuration. So you can audit how your network is configured, when it was changed, and even comment those changes for tracking and collaboration. From there, you can stay on top of your network's configuration with notifications through Email, Pushover, and Slack. You can also easily integrate Unimus into your workflow with its powerful API and NMS connectors. Take the helm of your network through Unimus with Mass Configuration Pushes or the integrated Device CLI — allowing you to make changes to a single device or thousands in seconds or on your schedule. Gain confidence, clarity, and control over your infrastructure with Unimus.
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    Starting Price: $5.90 per device per year
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    NMIS

    NMIS

    FirstWave

    FirstWave’s NMIS is a complete network management system that provides fault, performance, and configuration management, performance graphs, and threshold alerts. Business rules allow for highly granular notification policies with many types of notification methods. NMIS consolidates multiple tools into one system, ready for Network Engineers to use. Scalable, flexible, open, and simple to implement and maintain, NMIS is the Network Management System that underpins the operations of over one hundred thousand organizations worldwide – making it one of the most widely used open-source Network Management Systems in the world today. FirstWave enables partners, including some of the world’s largest telcos and managed service providers (MSPs), to protect their customers from cyber-attacks, while rapidly growing cybersecurity services revenues at scale. FirstWave provides a comprehensive end-to-end solution for network discovery, management, and cybersecurity for its partners globally.
    Starting Price: $0
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    AWS CodePipeline
    AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process every time there is a code change, based on the release model you define. This enables you to rapidly and reliably deliver features and updates. AWS CodePipeline can easily be extended to adapt to your specific needs. You can use our pre-built plugins or your own custom plugins in any step of your release process. For example, you can pull your source code from GitHub, use your on-premises Jenkins build server, run load tests using a third-party service, or pass on deployment information to your custom operations dashboard. With AWS CodePipeline, you can immediately begin to model your software release process. There are no servers to provision or set up.
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    Ansible

    Ansible

    Red Hat

    Ansible is a radically simple automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Ansible Automation Platform has grown over the past years to provide powerful automation solutions that work for operators, administrators and IT decision makers across a variety of technology domains. It’s a leading enterprise automation solution from Red Hat®, a thriving open source community, and the de facto standard technology of IT automation. Scale automation, manage complex deployments, and speed productivity with an enterprise automation platform that can be used across entire IT teams. Red Hat or partner consulting services help you advance your end-to-end automation journey for faster time to value.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
    Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces uses Kubernetes and containers to provide any member of the development or IT team with a consistent, secure, and zero-configuration development environment. The experience is as fast and familiar as an integrated development environment on your laptop. OpenShift Dev Spaces is included with your OpenShift subscription and is available in the Operator Hub. It provides development teams a faster and more reliable foundation on which to work, and it gives operations centralized control and peace of mind. Get coding today with our free Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, which includes OpenShift Dev Spaces to try out at no cost. Developers can focus more on coding, with their application and development environment containerized and running on OpenShift - all without needing to understand the details of Kubernetes. Administrators can easily manage and monitor workspaces as any other Kubernetes resource.
    Starting Price: $30 per month
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    Xurrent

    Xurrent

    Xurrent

    Xurrent is an enterprise service management (ESM) solution for seamless collaboration between internal and external service providers. Xurrent is the only ESM solution that makes it possible for all internal departments, like IT, HR and Facilities, to work together seamlessly with each other, as well as with the managed service providers to which some services have been outsourced. In addition to supporting the ITIL processes, Xurrent also provides fully integrated knowledge management, time tracking and project management capabilities. For enterprise employees, Xurrent is the Self Service app that is always there for them whenever they need some help. Apart from Xurrent's ITSM and ESM capabilities that support the ITIL and KCS practices, Xurrent uniquely supports the SIAM approach. This management approach is becoming increasingly important as enterprises rely on ever-more external providers.
    Starting Price: $0 per month Freemium
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    Octopus Deploy

    Octopus Deploy

    Octopus Deploy

    Founded in 2012, Octopus Deploy enables successful deployments for over 25,000 companies around the world. Prior to Octopus Deploy, release orchestration and DevOps automation tools were clunky, limited to large enterprises and didn't deliver what they promised. Octopus Deploy was the first release automation tool to gain popular adoption by software teams, and we continue to invent new ways for Dev & Ops teams to automate releases and deliver working software to production. Runbook automation in Octopus sits side-by-side with your deployments and gives you control over your infrastructure and applications. Automate operations tasks like routine maintenance and emergency incident recovery. Flexible, role-based access control lets you manage who can deploy to production, change your deployment process, infrastructure, and more.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Otter by Inedo
    Otter helps you provision and configure your servers automatically, without ever needing to log-in to a command prompt. You can define reusable sets of configuration called roles, and then scale your infrastructure by simply assigning these roles to any number of servers. Let everyone on your team run complex scripts with a custom GUI that you develop around your script parameters. Enable anyone to develop advanced, multi-server orchestrations without needing advanced coding skills. Define desired states of configuration for your servers, detect “drift” from their actual configuration, and re-configure as needed. CI/CD for Infrastructure & Configuration Management. Read the guide to learn how you can deliver infrastructure changes using CI/CD pipelines with Otter and BuildMaster.
    Starting Price: $2,995/year
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    Netwrix Strongpoint
    Netwrix Strongpoint helps organizations build smart controls that automate the hardest parts of SOX compliance management and audit reporting, access reviews and segregation of duties, data security, and change management. Netwrix Strongpoint works with NetSuite and Salesforce. With tight controls to track and protect what’s in scope, Strongpoint customers are able to produce airtight audit reporting on demand, greatly reducing the cost and time of SOX compliance prep. See what’s safe to change and what requires additional review. Then, use highly sophisticated impact analysis tools to streamline the discovery process. Not subject to SOX? Netwrix Strongpoint’s award-winning data security, configuration management, and change management tools help businesses running complex business systems maintain transparency and harden their business-critical applications against security risks.
    Starting Price: $1000/month
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    Scalr

    Scalr

    Scalr

    Scalr's Terraform Automation & Collaboration Software (TACOS) is a remote state & operations backend for Terraform with full CLI support, integration with OPA, a hierarchical configuration model, and quality of life features.
    Starting Price: $20/user/month
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    TeamCity

    TeamCity

    JetBrains

    Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box. Define up to 100 build configurations (jobs) and run unlimited builds. Run up to 3 builds concurrently. Add extra agents when necessary. Utilize the full potential of all the TeamCity features. This product includes features identical to those available to our largest customers. Receive peer support through the forum, alternatively file a bug or feature request, and vote for them in our public issue tracker. Unlimited users, unlimited build time. No strings attached. Build, check and run automated tests on the server even before committing your changes – keeping your code base clean at all times. Don’t wait for a build to finish to discover that something is wrong. Form your project tree to inherit parent settings and permissions. Create templates with common settings and inherit any number of build configurations from them.
    Starting Price: $18/month
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    Puppet Enterprise
    Puppet is redefining what’s possible for continuous operations. Easily automate your environment to deliver at cloud speed and cloud scale with products that are responsive and predictive by design. 90% of the largest US-based companies rely on Puppet’s infrastructure as code to simplify the complexity of modern IT infrastructure. At Puppet, we’re redefining what is possible for continuous operations. We empower IT operations teams to easily automate their infrastructure, enabling them to deliver at cloud speed and cloud scale. Our scalable approach to infrastructure automation enables teams to innovate rapidly, with security and compliance baked in. We’re leading the way from find-and-fix to predicting at scale. No more surprises. We move at the speed of business, delivering infrastructure automation software that gives your teams back their time, and promises them, and your business. peace of mind.
    Starting Price: $120 per month
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    Terraform

    Terraform

    HashiCorp

    Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files. Write infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files. HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) allows for concise descriptions of resources using blocks, arguments, and expressions. Run terraform plan to check whether the execution plan for a configuration matches your expectations before provisioning or changing infrastructure. Apply changes to hundreds of cloud providers with terraform apply to reach the desired state of the configuration. Define infrastructure as code to manage the full lifecycle — create new resources, manage existing ones, and destroy those no longer needed.
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    HashiCorp Consul
    A multi-cloud service networking platform to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud. Real-time health and location information of all services. Progressive delivery and zero trust security with less overhead. Receive peace of mind that all HCP connections are secured out of the box. Gain insight into service health and performance metrics with built-in visualization directly in the Consul UI or by exporting metrics to a third-party solution. Many modern applications have migrated towards decentralized architectures as opposed to traditional monolithic architectures. This is especially true with microservices. Since applications are composed of many inter-dependent services, there's a need to have a topological view of the services and their dependencies. Furthermore, there is a desire to have insight into health and performance metrics for the different services.
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    CFEngine

    CFEngine

    CFEngine

    CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your mission-critical IT infrastructure. CFEngine provides DevSecOps teams with a versatile solution to automate day-to-day tasks - freeing up time to focus on more important business priorities. Regardless of scale and complexity, CFEngine continuously keeps your infrastructure secure, compliant & up to date. CFEngine pioneered and revolutionized the way organizations manage their infrastructure. As these environments have matured over the years, CFEngine continues to support the world's most critical infrastructures through improved automation, as well as setting the standard for security & compliance. CFEngine is available in both open-source and commercial options. Gain control & visibility of your infrastructure. Automate your infrastructure. Configuration Management. CI/CD integration.
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    HyScale

    HyScale

    HyScale

    HyScale transforms the way agile teams deploy software to modern IT infrastructures powered by cloud, containers and Kubernetes. It's open-source and vendor-neutral. Created and containerized apps for a microservice-based platform minimizing delays in application delivery. Migrated monolithic apps to K8s & set up a self-service process in a few weeks’ time for a leading insurance company from UK. Automated CI/CD pipeline and reduced time to market for a US-based transportation management company. Focus on your app & quickly implement app changes. Continuously deliver microservices to Kubernetes with self-service DevOps. Deliver apps to K8s running on multi-cloud environments. Streamline with left-shifted security & gain visibility over container sprawl.
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