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by andrecp11 1925 days ago
I've used Ansible to manage thousands of baremetal servers, you do have to build some stuff yourself but it mostly just works. The Ansible framework for gathering facts is pretty neat, it has a framework to do X or Y depending on facts from hosts, you can run it in pull model or push model, through AWX or jenkins. A lot of freedom.

If you want something that just works automatically and is free, well, I don't think you will find. Learning Ansible (or another configuration management tool) well will pay dividends through a lot of your career tho.