Best Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software for Windows

SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. With the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date. The SecOps suite includes both Comply and Protect. Comply scans and remediates against CIS, DISA-STIG, NIST, PCI, HIPAA compliance standards. And Protect scans for vulnerabilities and patches and updates your operating systems.

The Industry Standard Universal Binary Repository Manager. Supports all major package types (over 27 and growing) such as Maven, npm, Python, NuGet, Gradle, Go, and Helm including Kubernetes and Docker as well as integration with leading CI servers and DevOps tools that you already use. Additional functionalities include: - High Availability that scales to infinity with active/active clustering of your DevOps environment and scales as business grows - On-Prem, Cloud, Hybrid, or Multi-Cloud Solution - De Facto Kubernetes Registry managing application packages, operating system’s component dependencies, open source libraries, Docker containers, and Helm charts with full visibility of all dependencies. Compatible with a growing list of Kubernetes cluster providers.

SUSE Manager was designed to help your enterprise DevOps and IT Operations teams reduce complexity and regain control of your IT assets with a single tool to manage Linux systems across a variety of hardware architectures, hypervisors as well as container, IoT and cloud platforms. It automates Linux server and IoT device provisioning, patching and configuration for faster, consistent and repeatable server deployment helping to optimize operations and reduce costs. And with automated monitoring, tracking, auditing and reporting of your systems, VMs, and containers across your development, test and production environments, you can ensure compliance with internal security policies and external regulations.

Automate all of those frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks. Azure Automation service helps you focus on work that adds business value. By reducing errors and boosting efficiency, it also helps to lower your operational costs. Update Windows and Linux systems across hybrid environments. Monitor update compliance across Azure, on-premises, and other cloud platforms for Windows and Linux. Schedule deployments to orchestrate the installation of updates within a defined maintenance window. Author and manage PowerShell configurations, import configuration scripts, and generate node configurations—all in the cloud. Use Azure Configuration Management to monitor and automatically update machine configuration across physical and virtual machines, Windows, or Linux—in the cloud or on-premises. & more

Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.

Stacktape is a DevOps-free cloud framework that’s both powerful and easy at the same time. It allows you to develop, deploy and run applications on AWS. With 98% less configuration and without the need for DevOps or Cloud expertise. Unlike with other solutions, you can deploy both serverless (AWS lambda-based) and more traditional (container-based) applications. Stacktape also supports 20+ infrastructure components, including SQL databases, Load balancers, MongoDB Atlas clusters, Batch-jobs, Kafka topics, Redis clusters & more. Besides infrastructure management, Stacktape handles source code packaging, deployments, local/remote development, and much more. It also comes with a VScode extension and local development studio (GUI). Stacktape is a IaaC tool. A typical production-grade REST API is ~30 lines of config (compared to ~600-800 lines of CloudFormation/Terraform). The deployment can be done using a single command - from local machine or a CI/CD pipeline.

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.

Gravity cloud is an Internal Developer Platform that enables engineering teams to run and manage cloud at scale. The feature-rich IDP brings complete control and visibility for Kubernetes, Databases, RBAC, CI/CD and much more. Gravity also enables complete cost visibility along with any action performed on the cloud. For engineering teams, IDP becomes an important part of the developer lifecylce to increase productivity and reducing total cost of ownership on the non-core developement work. Gravity's unique IDP ensures to deliver the maximum output from your software lifecyles.

IT Convergence is a global award winning and Gartner-recognized provider across all three pillars of the Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), including Consulting (Advisory), Private Cloud (Hosting), Managed Services, Cloud Migration, Integration, Business Intelligence/Analytics, Cybersecurity, Development, RPA, Testing, Training, and Change Management services. Harness the power of hyperscale public clouds, guided by expert consultants through each step – from migration to optimization Our Public Cloud Includes: Cloud Transformation Advisory Cloud Workload and Traditional Hosting Migration In-Flight Migration OS, DB and Application Upgrade On-Premise, Hybrid and Cloud Integrations Backup and Disaster Recovery DevOps Engineering Cloud Administration Post-Cloud Automation

DROPS is a release management tool designed to simplify, secure, and centralize the deployment of applications across data centers, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructures. It supports a wide range of platforms, integrates seamlessly with various CI/CD pipelines, and offers both agent-based and agentless operations. With features like full-stack release management, automated infrastructure provisioning, and 24/7 availability, DROPS aims to streamline deployment processes and ensure consistent, reliable delivery. The tool is flexible enough to manage both legacy and modern applications, catering to diverse enterprise needs. Select agent-based or agentless operation. No need for agent installation and management. DROPS adapts to your configuration and if agents are needed, they are provisioned automatically. Plan and organize your application deployment from the web console with no scripting needed. Ease collaboration between stakeholders and technical teams.

Manage all private and public environments from one platform using a single CI/CD plugin that connects to ALL automation toolchains. Including Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Formation, Azure ARM and more. No installation, no downloads … and on us for the first 30 days. Built-in integration with infrastructure orchestration domains including AWS Cloud formation, Azure ARM, Ansible and Terraform. Service Composition Domain-Specific Language (DSL) – simplifies the relationship between services, handling cascading workflows, shared resources, distributed life-cycle management and more. Orchestration of cloud native Kubernetes services across multiple clusters: OpenShift, GKE, EKS, AKS and KubeSpray. Access a built-in blueprint to automate cluster setup and configuration. Built-in integration with Jenkins and other CI/CD platforms providing a ‘one-stop-shop’ for integrating all orchestration domains to your CI/CD pipeline.

Better operators for enterprise apps with a full application graph and declarative integration for both Kubernetes and legacy estate. Juju operator integration allows us to keep each operator as simple as possible, then compose them to create rich application graph topologies that support complex scenarios with a simple, consistent experience and much less YAML. The UNIX philosophy of ‘doing one thing well’ applies to large-scale operations code too, and the benefits of clarity and reuse are exactly the same. Small is beautiful. Juju allows you to adopt the operator pattern for your entire estate, including legacy apps. Model-driven operations dramatically reduce maintenance and operations costs for traditional workloads without re-platforming to K8s. Once charmed, legacy apps become multi-cloud ready, too. The Juju Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) uniquely supports both container and machine-based apps, with seamless integration between them.

StackQL is a SQL-based multicloud management framework used to provision and query cloud resources, reducing complexity and simplifying security. StackQL is extensible to all API-enabled cloud and SaaS providers through its unique “no code” to “low code” provider plugin architecture, making it a valuable and intuitive multicloud management and observability solution.