Best IT Automation Software in 2026

Canonical MAAS

MAAS suits operators managing physical servers for private cloud, server automation, or bare-metal Kubernetes.

ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus

It suits enterprise IT teams managing corporate-owned and employee-owned devices.

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus

Patch Manager Plus suits administrators managing updates across Windows, Mac, and Linux endpoints.

Azure AutomationMicrosoft

Azure Automation suits teams managing Windows and Linux systems that need cloud-based process, configuration, patch, update, or remediation automation.

CFEngine

CFEngine suits teams managing infrastructure across devices or large node fleets that want policy-based configuration and compliance reporting.

OPSI

OPSI suits organizations managing software, operating systems, inventory, patches, and configurations across Windows, Linux, or macOS endpoints.

PatchMon

PatchMon suits infrastructure teams managing mixed Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows fleets.

Puppet

Puppet Enterprise is intended for medium and large organizations managing complex hybrid environments that need centralized automation, security, and compliance controls.

Foreman

Foreman is aimed at system administrators managing physical or virtual infrastructure across on-premise and cloud environments.

Rundeck is for engineering, IT, customer service and security teams handling incidents.

Google Cloud VM Manager

It suits teams maintaining Compute Engine VM fleets that need patch scheduling, inventory and centralized software policies.

Juju suits teams deploying and managing applications across cloud, Kubernetes, virtual machine and bare-metal infrastructure.

Canonical Landscape

Landscape suits system administrators, security teams, IT managers and compliance officers managing Ubuntu machines.

Chef Infra

Chef Infra suits teams managing mixed operating-system fleets that want to define, test, and enforce configuration policies as code.

NetBrain

NetBrain is aimed at large enterprises, telcos, and managed service providers with complex, hybrid networks.

Salt

Salt suits teams managing configuration and operations across multiple systems, including those needing agentless or stand-alone modes.

Hexnode UEM

It suits organizations that need centralized enrollment, policy, app and remote management across varied device types and operating systems.

baramundi Management Suite

It suits organizations seeking central management for endpoints across Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android.

JAMS Scheduler

JAMS suits organizations coordinating interdependent jobs across complex IT environments.

Uyuni

Uyuni suits teams managing Linux estates across on-premises or cloud environments.