Network automation is a big deal for Ansible—the company has customers who use another orchestration tool for most purposes, but run Ansible for network automation.

Like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible, Salt offers a large number of modules to address specific software, operating systems, and cloud services. Custom modules can be written in Python or PyDSL.

IBM subsidiary Red Hat launched early access of Ansible Automation Platform 2, with Platform 2.1 expected to become generally available in November, adding capabilities around automation scaling ...