The best replacement for puppet is chef.

The best alternatives to puppet are rated as following:
★★★★★  chef
★★★★  ansible
★★★★  cfengine
★★  annex
★  muppet
★  spacewalk
★  salt
★  fabric
★  marionette
★  saltstack
★  jenkins
★  sccm
★  annex civ 5
★  docker
  bcfg2
  cfengine 3
  raze civ 5
  costume
  func
  capistrano
  poppet
  demonic toys
  profit
  cloudformation
  cfengine3
  annex hoi3
  kickstart

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Speaking about puppet, one probably shouldn't forget about strings.

Other search terms related to puppet and their ratings are:
★★★★★ strings
★★ vagrant
★★ aws
★ docker
★ jenkins
★ openstack
★ foreman
★ mcollective
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