launchd
Apple Inc. · macOS automation
macOS's built-in service manager that starts, supervises and schedules daemons and per-user agents from property-list job definitions
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Infrastructure & provisioning
Infrastructure-as-code, configuration management and process supervision.
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PM2
Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts
AGPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026
Ansible
Red Hat (Ansible community) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Agentless configuration management and orchestration tool that runs YAML playbooks over SSH, with collections for clouds, network gear and applications
GPL-3.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026
Slurm Workload Manager
SchedMD LLC · Distributed & parallel computing
Open-source cluster resource manager and job scheduler for Linux clusters, allocating nodes, launching jobs and managing queues on many HPC systems
GPL-2.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026
Terraform
HashiCorp (an IBM company) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Infrastructure-as-code tool that provisions cloud and SaaS resources from HCL configurations through a plan-and-apply workflow, licensed under BSL 1.1
BUSL-1.1FreePaidLocalNov 2, 2026
OpenTofu
Linux Foundation (OpenTofu project) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Community fork of Terraform under the Linux Foundation, keeping the HCL language, provider ecosystem and state model under the MPL-2.0 license
MPL-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026