Configuration Management (14)

• Documentation | Vagrant | HashiCorp Developer (Documentation | Vagrant | HashiCorp Developer) reference
  Vagrantfile-driven throwaway VMs: boxes, provisioners, synced folders, networking, box registry
  Infrastructure As Code Virtualization #
• Terraform overview | Terraform | HashiCorp Developer (Terraform overview | Terraform | HashiCorp Developer) reference
  declarative provisioning across cloud providers: HCL, CLI and state; BUSL licensed, HCP tiers above it
  Infrastructure As Code Public Cloud #
• Home | Linux System Roles (linux-system-roles.github.io) tool
  Ansible roles giving a stable interface to OS subsystems; upstream of RHEL System Roles, on Galaxy
  Ansible Enterprise Linux Red Hat #
• Foreman (theforeman.org) tool
  provisioning and lifecycle of bare-metal and cloud hosts: Puppet/Salt ENC, host groups, RBAC, Hammer CLI, API
  Bare Metal Provisioning System Administration #
• Learning Ansible basics (redhat.com) article
  how modules, inventories and playbooks work, and what the paid Automation Platform adds on top
  Ansible DevOps #
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (redhat.com) tool
  Red Hat's subscription platform atop Ansible for Linux, Windows, network and VM automation at scale
  Ansible Commercial Support Red Hat #
• Salt User Guide — Salt user guide (docs.saltproject.io) reference
  Salt core concepts for remote execution and declarative state, community-written companion to the docs
  DevOps System Administration #
• Kustomize - Kubernetes native configuration management (kustomize.io) tool
  template-free overlay editing of Kubernetes manifests, standalone binary or built into kubectl
  Kubernetes #
• Nix & NixOS | Declarative builds and deployments (nixos.org) tool
  Isolated reproducible builds, safe rollbacks and declarative machine config; 140,000+ Nixpkgs packages
  Distro Nix Package Manager #
• ArchWiki (wiki.archlinux.org) reference
  Install guide, application indexes and deep configuration articles used well beyond Arch itself
  Arch Linux Distro #
• Ansible Community | Ansible documentation (docs.ansible.com) reference
  Official docs for the agentless YAML automation engine: core language, collections, ecosystem tools
  Infrastructure As Code #
• OpenTofu (opentofu.org) tool
  Linux Foundation-stewarded Terraform fork, drop-in compatible, with 3,900+ community providers
  Infrastructure As Code #
• cloud-init 26.2 documentation (docs.cloud-init.io) reference
  First-boot provisioning across clouds and bare metal: networking, storage, SSH keys, packages
  Infrastructure As Code #
• Preface - Home Manager Manual (nix-community.github.io) reference
  Managing a user's dotfiles, packages and services declaratively with Nix, on NixOS or any distro
  Nix Package Manager #