# Foreman vs OpenVox

**Leader by Vioscale score:** OpenVox

| Attribute | Foreman | OpenVox |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 48.8 (17% (low)) | 58.1 (62% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 14 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 9 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A server lifecycle management tool that orchestrates provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring for both on-premise and cloud infrastructure. It provisions bare-metal and virtual servers from multiple cloud providers and integrates with configuration management tools to deploy and monitor server configurations. | OpenVox is a community-maintained configuration management system designed to automate infrastructure deployment, configuration, and drift remediation across systems. It is a modern open-source implementation compatible with Puppet, actively developed by the Vox Pupuli community. |
| features.capabilities | `{"model":"both","hosting":"self","desired_state":true,"open_source_core":true,"cloud_provisioning":true}` | `{"model":"pull","hosting":"self","language":"Puppet DSL","idempotent":true,"architecture":"declarative_os","desired_state":true,"masterless_mode":true,"windows_support":true,"content_registry":true,"open_source_core":true,"policy_compliance":true,"cloud_provisioning":true}` |
| integrations.count | 15 | 5 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Puppet"},{"name":"Salt"},{"name":"Ansible"},{"name":"MaaS"},{"name":"Amazon EC2"},{"name":"Google Compute Engine"},{"name":"OpenStack"},{"name":"Libvirt"},{"name":"oVirt"},{"name":"VMware"},{"name":"LDAP"},{"name":"FreeIPA"},{"name":"Redmine"},{"name":"Discourse"},{"name":"GitHub"}]` | `[{"name":"PuppetDB"},{"name":"NGINX"},{"name":"systemd"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Renovate"}]` |
| language.primary | - | HTML |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | - |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://theforeman.org/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T22:23:01.243Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://voxpupuli.org/openvox/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T22:40:17.331Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (Configuration Management Tools)

| Capability | Foreman | OpenVox |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Architecture | - | Declarative-OS |
| Push / pull model | Both | Pull |
| Config language | - | Puppet DSL |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Masterless mode | - | ✓ |
| Hosting | Self-hosted only | Self-hosted only |
| **Correctness** |  |  |
| Idempotent | - | ✓ |
| **Model** |  |  |
| Desired-state declarative | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ecosystem** |  |  |
| Content registry | - | ✓ |
| **Platform** |  |  |
| Windows support | - | ✓ |
| **Scope** |  |  |
| Cloud provisioning | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| Policy / compliance | - | ✓ |
| **Commercial** |  |  |
| Enterprise edition | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Open-source core | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:54:11.073Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*