System

Puppet

Ansible

F'allet

Salt

Client

Agent

Node

Node

Minion

Server

Master

Server

Server

Master

Configuration

Catalog

Playbook

Crate

Salt State

Sys{em

Puppet

Ansible

Pallet

Chef

Salt

Agentless

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Both

Cli@nt dependencies

Ruby

Python, sshd, bash

sshd, bash

Ruby, sshd, bash

Python

Language

Ruby

Python

Clojure

Ruby

Python